One-Day Course

Turbocharging of IC Engines:  Principles and Simulation

Instructors:

Dr. Mario Skopil, Wärtsilä and

Thomas Jeremy Wanat, Gamma Technologies

 

Date and Location:   Oct. 21, 2003, Frankfurt, Germany

(One day after the GT-SUITE Conference)

 

Course Outline:

This course will focus on the application of turbochargers to IC engines and their simulation:

1.   Theoretical background of turbocharging systems                   (Dr. Skopil)

·        Compressors and turbines (and their maps)

·        System efficiency and losses

·        Charge air cooling

·        Types of turbocharging systems (pulse, constant pressure, two stage, waste gate…)

·        How to improve the response of the TC-system

 

2.   Some theoretical background of turbocharger simulation         (Dr. Skopil)

 

3.   Practical aspects of engine modeling using GT-POWER          (Mr. Wanat)

·        Map fitting and extrapolation

·        Matching of a turbocharger with an engine

·        Boost control of a wastegated or variable geometry turbine in a simulation

·        An example of an automotive diesel with a twin-entry, wastegated turbine with boost-control including a broad range of plotted results, illustrating the engine and turbocharger

 

Instructors:

 

Dr. Skopil is the Expert for Turbocharging and Simulation at Wärtsilä Switzerland.  He also is a Lecturer for Turbocharging at the Technical Academy, Esslingen (TAE).  He obtained his Ph. D. at ETH Zuerich, where his dissertation topic was "Computational Simulation of the Surge Process of a Radial Compressor Accounting for Gas Dynamic and Transient Processes in a Turbocharging System.”  Prior to his present employment he worked at MAN Turbo Switzerland in Zuerich as Manager of Project Support S.C.M., and at ABB Turbo Systems, Baden as Software Engineer for Engine Simulations.  He is a graduate of TH Darmstadt in jet engines, thermal turbomachines and combustion engines.  He was born in 1960 in Frankfurt a.M.

Mr. Wanat is a Senior Project Engineer at Gamma Technologies.  In this position, he trains customers in the use of GT-POWER, designs and tests new features and helps customers build GT-POWER models of their engines.  His special simulation interests are in turbochargers and acoustics.  He obtained a Master's of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, where he focused on the generation of grids for 3D numerical simulation.

 

Course Fee and Registration:          

 

$300 (includes lunch)

Please register at:http://www.gtisoft.com/training.html