Piston thermal analysis
Piston thermal analysis
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Hello,
I am planning a FE structural analysis of a piston for a IC engine. A preliminary thermal analysis (by FEA too) is needed to calculate the temperature field (responsible for a great deal of the stresses)
The boundary conditions required for the thermal analysis are: gas temperature and Heat transfer coefficents at the piston/fluid interfaces. The underside of the piston is cooled by an oil jet, so an HTC is needed for that area as well.
Has anybody got an idea or established methodology on how to estimate these values, possibly locally?
It is important that the temperature distribution is as accurate as possible to be able to predict realistic stresses!
Thanks
Gio1





RE: Piston thermal analysis
RE: Piston thermal analysis
To establish the parameters. Many many variables exist.
RE: Piston thermal analysis
RE: Piston thermal analysis
As you mentioned that you are having a simulation software. I hope it will give the presuure and temperature of the cylinder contents with respect to crank angle during a cycle. From this data, their are number of correlations are available to calculate the heat transfer coefficient. Out of which one corellation given by Woschni is widely used by various people. Please refer the SAE paper No: 670931 for the correlation.
Regards,
KMPillai
RE: Piston thermal analysis