INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine carries out lean combustion to cause flame propagation to a homogeneous air-fuel mixture while drifting primary flames on a tumble flow by injecting fuel for ignition from a second fuel injection valve to a vicinity of an electrode portion and igniting an air-fuel mixture for ignition at a primary ignition timing, and to ignite an air-fuel mixture for accelerating combustion at a secondary ignition timing by injecting fuel for accelerating combustion in a squish area from the second fuel injection valve at a timing before an injection timing of the fuel for ignition and drifting the air-fuel mixture for accelerating combustion in a combustion chamber on the tumble flow. The secondary ignition timing is set as a timing allowing secondary flames produced by igniting the air-fuel mixture for accelerating combustion to be drawn into the squish area by a reverse squish flow.