Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2025, 27(1):B41-B52 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2025.006

Technical Condition Assessment and Modelling of Reed Valves in Vehicle Engine Intake Systems

Oleksandr Kravchenko ORCID...1, *, Alexander Khrulev ORCID...2, Juraj Gerlici ORCID...1, Oleksii Saraiev ORCID...3, Serhii Danets ORCID...4
1 University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
2 International Motor, Nemishaeve, Kyiv region, Ukraine
3 Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
4 Kharkiv State Research and Forensic Science Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of using a simple reed valve model of an engine with periodic workflow. To achieve this purpose, models of the reed valve have been developed and determined that the quasi-stationary model allows one to find the air flow through the reed valve with an accuracy of 5-6%. The limits of permissible values, at which the model has a minimal error, correspond to Strouhal number of 0.2-0.3. This data confirmed that with proper consideration of the existing limitations, the quasi-stationary model gives results close to those provided by the complex dynamic models.

Keywords: engine with periodic workflow, pulse jet engine, intake reed valve, modelling, quasi-stationary model, dynamic model
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The authors like to express their gratitude to the AB-Engineering Mechanical Processing Center, Odesa, and the International Motor Bureau, Nemishaeve, Kyiv oblast, Ukraine, for technical support, including for providing materials and technical data of different engines, as well as for help in the research. Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the project No. 09I03-03-V01-00129.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: July 17, 2024; Accepted: September 30, 2024; Prepublished online: November 13, 2024; Published: January 2, 2025  Show citation

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Kravchenko, O., Khrulev, A., Gerlici, J., Saraiev, O., & Danets, S. (2025). Technical Condition Assessment and Modelling of Reed Valves in Vehicle Engine Intake Systems. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 27(1), B41-52. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2025.006
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