Abstract: In this paper, the unsteady and non-homoentropic flow in exhaust system of diesel engine is analysed and calculated by means of characteristic method. This paper makes proper treatment in calculation, particularly in calculation of boundary conditions, then the calculation program obtained is rather common and the convergence of calculation is faster too. Finally, in this paper, we take exhaust system of 6135 turbocharged diesel engine for an example and make numerical calculation for it, The results obtained are quite satisfactory.

Key words: variational principle, numerical manifold method, numerical analysis