CONVERGE是美国Convergent Science Inc.（CSI）开发的革新性的热流体分析软件，它解决了网格生成这一CFD模拟中一个重要障碍。高效求解器配合自动网格生成功能极大缩短了计算时间。

自动网格生成功能不仅缩短计算时间，也适用于任何复杂形状的几何结构和类似阀门的运动边界。这种边界处理的实用性比其他软件显著提高。

CONVERGE自动生成正交六面体网格，并且还具有动态网格加密，负荷平衡功能，以取得较高计算精度。求解复杂现象的物理模型有喷雾模型，RANS 和LES湍流模型，燃烧模型，广泛应用于内燃机的共轭传热模型，流固耦合模型，辐射模型和VOF模型。

特别对于燃烧，除了经验模型，还有详细化学反应计算和机理简化功能，以前很难计算的详细化学机理现在可以计算。

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The Convergent Science GmbH team is based in Linz, Austria and provides support to our European clients and collaborators alike as they tackle the hard problems. One of the most interesting and challenging problems in the design of high efficiency modern spark-ignited (SI) internal combustion engines is the prediction of knock and the development of knock-mitigation strategies. At the 2018 European CONVERGE User Conference (EUC), several speakers presented recent work on engine knock.

This winter, when I cold-started my car, I heard a loud knocking noise. Usually, though, knocking is more prevalent in engines that operate near the edge of the stability range. The first step of knocking is spontaneous secondary ignition (autoignition) of the end-gases ahead of the flame front. When the pressure waves from this autoignition hit the walls of the combustion chamber, they often make a knocking noise and damage the engine. Knock is challenging to simulate because you must correctly calculate critical local conditions and simultaneously track the pressure waves that are traveling rapidly across the combustion chamber.

To enable you to easily model these conditions, CONVERGE offers autonomous meshing, full-cycle simulation, and flexible boundary conditions. Adaptive Mesh Refinement allows you to add cells and spend computational time on areas where the knock-relevant parameters (such as local pressure difference, heat release rate, and species mass fraction of radicals that indicate autoignition) are rapidly changing. CONVERGE can predict autoignition with surrogate fuels, changing physical engine parameters, and a spectrum of operating conditions.

EUC keynote speaker Vincenzo Bevilacqua from Porsche Engineering presented an intriguing new approach (re-defining knock index) to evaluate the factors that may contribute to knock and to identify a clear knock limit. In another study, researchers from Politecnico di Torino investigated the feasibility of water injection as knock mitigation strategy. In yet another study, Max Mally and his colleagues from VKA RWTH Aachen University used RANS to successfully reproduce combustion and knock with a spark-timing sweep approach at various exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) percentages. You can see in the figure below that they were able to capture the moving pressure waves.

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