The invention belongs to the field of diesel engine air distribution system researches and relates to a diesel engine air distribution system dynamic calculation method based on a multi-body system transfer matrix. The diesel engine air distribution system dynamic calculation method based on the multi-body system transfer matrix comprises the following steps of: building a cam profile Nth harmonic fitting function, selecting a state vector, a boundary condition, an initial input quantity and the like required by a multi-body system transfer matrix method, analyzing the mechanical properties of all components of an air distribution system, deducing a transfer matrix which reflects the mechanical properties, integrating all parameters to obtain a total transfer equation, solving the total transfer equation to obtain the dynamic response situation of each part, drawing the dynamic characteristic curve of each part and the like. The diesel engine air distribution system dynamic calculation method based on the multi-body system transfer matrix has the advantages that the mechanical response situations of all parts during the movement of the air distribution system can be intuitively reflected through the dynamic characteristic curves, the dynamic response results and the like of all parts, the method is suitable for air distribution systems of diesel engines with different speed types, the measuring and modeling time needed for building a three-dimensional model is greatly saved, and the obtained results are more effective than the results obtained through solution by using the traditional multi-rigid-body differential equation set.