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Research projects

This page contains a temporary archive of research projects at the Advanced Engineering Centre. The work will be migrated into the 91¶¶Òõ's research database. Please visit the Advanced Engineering Centre's new online home.

Droplets and sprays research projects

Non-spherical droplets in high pressure sprays

New experimental and numerical tools to study non-spherical droplets

Energy efficiency and environment

A cross-channel cluster (E3C3)

Biofuel spray injection modelling

Development of a new model for biofuel spray penetration in diesel engines 

Heating and evaporation of multi-component droplets

An investigation focusing on the development of the new models

Molecular dynamics simulation of complex molecules

Development of a new hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular dynamics (QM/MD) model

Heating and evaporation processes in complex hydrocarbon fuel droplets

Development of a new quantitative kinetic model

Novel poppet valve 2-stroke auto-ignition combustion engine (2-ACE)

A fundamental study

Modelling of small droplets heating and evaporation

Modelling of breakup processes in transient Diesel fuel sprays

A universal spray model for engineering applications

The analysis of multi-phase jets and mixing zones

Development of new physical and mathematical models for fuel spray autoignition

A kinetic algorithm for modelling the droplet evaporation process in the presence of a heat flux and background gas

Les Sprays

Modelling of aerosols and sprays for medical and automotive applications

Sprays in engineering applications: modelling and experimental studies

Unified modelling framework of sub- and super-critical injection dynamics

A generalised fully Lagrangian approach for gas droplet flows

Engine combustion research projects

Development of new physical and mathematical models for fuel spray autoignition 

VERTIGO – Virtual Emission Research, Tool InteGration and Optimisation

Role of EGR in the future emissions targets of advanced diesel engines

GREEN engine

 

GREEN 2

Follow-up on the GREEN project

GREEN 3

 

Interactions between high-pressure diesel sprays and bowl geometry

CHAMP

Low Carbon Hybrid Advanced Motive Power

Novel poppet valve 2-stroke auto-ignition combustion engine (2-ACE)

A fundamental study

Steady-State Flow Rig (SSFR) Motorsport project

Non-spherical droplets in high pressure sprays

Energy efficiency and environment

A cross-channel cluster (E3C3)

The effects of diesel fuel composition on atomisation and combustion

CEREEV

Combustion Engine for Range-Extended Electric Vehicle

2/4 SIGHT

Downsized 2 stroke/4 stroke switching engine for passenger cars

2/4 Car

Follows on the success of the 2/4 SIGHT project

Heat and mass transfer

Novel hybrid heat pipe for space and ground applications

Heat recovery and energy storage

CryoPower

Ultra efficient engines and fuels

Libertine

Flysafe

HeatWave II

In-cylinder mixture preparation research projects

Development of the full Lagrangian approach for the analysis of vortex ring-like structures in disperse media

Novel poppet valve 2-stroke auto-ignition combustion engine (2-ACE)

A fundamental study

The analysis of multi-phase jets and mixing zones

Vortex rings in gasoline fuel sprays

Investigation of vortex ring-like structures in internal combustion engines, taking into account thermal and confinement effects

Automotive electronics research projects

PACIFIC

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