Numerical Simulation of Flow Field Characteristics of The Cooling Water Jacket of A Marine Diesel Engine

¹ College of Power Engineering, Naval Univ. of Engineering, Wuhan, P. R. China, 430000
² The First Military Representative Office of Naval Equipment Department of PLA in Wuhan, Wuhan, P. R. China, 430000
³ Unit 92730 of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Sanya, P. R. China, 572000
⁴ Unit 92020 of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Qingdao, P. R. China, 266000

^* Corresponding author: 821021174@qq.com

Abstract

In order to evaluate the flow field characteristics of a marine diesel engine cooling water jacket, and provide a theoretical basis for further optimizing the water jacket structure. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method was used to calculate the three-dimensional flow field of the water jacket. Based on the CFD simulation model of the engine water jacket, the analysis of pressure field, velocity field, streamline distribution and flow uniformity of water jacket of diesel engine under rated condition were carried out. The results show that: the total pressure loss of water jacket is 30.3 kPa, in which the pressure loss of cylinder block is 8.4 kPa, and the one of cylinder head and outlet manifold is 21.9 kPa, which indicates that the flow resistance design of the cylinder block and head is reasonable; the flow rate of coolant in the nose zone of cylinder head is above 1.5 m/s, which meets the cooling demand of cylinder head; the cooling water flows circumferentially in the engine block water jacket, and the flow dead zones are easily formed by the mutual extrusion and collision of the water flows; the outlet of the cylinder head water jacket is connected with the outlet manifold at right angle, which leads to large energy loss of the flow field; the maximum non-uniformity of flow rate of water jacket of each cylinder is 5.85%, which can be further optimized by adjusting the position of water jacket inlet.