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Economic and environmental pressures continue to drive the quest for ever more efficient engines. The atomisation and spray characteristics of different fuel injection systems may also be studied in engine-like conditions in novel test rigs using time-resolved particle sizing techniques such as PDA and ILIDS, time-resolved velocity field techniques such as PIV and LDA, and Mie-scattering and LIF for transient concentration quantification. Detailed studies of flame propagation through fuel aerosol mixtures typically found in engines can also be undertaken in purpose-built facilities.

Other aspects of engine design may also be studied at Cardiff. For instance, novel ways of reducing jet engine turbine blade temperatures are being investigated through various cooling flow regimes within the blade. Laser techniques such as LDA are being used to characterise the flows, whilst CFD and integral models of the fluid dynamic and heat transfer interaction and under development for predictive capacity in the future. The emission of particulates from engines and other combustion systems is also currently under investigation.

PROVIDER: Cardiff University, Combustion and Laser Diagnostics Group

Would you be interested in:

  • getting more information about this combustion service

Please take contact with:

Professor N. Syred (Nick)
Head of Division of Mechanical Engineering
Cardiff School of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Energy & Thermal Fluids

Tel.: Int +44 1222 874 318
Fax: Int +44 1222 874 317
E-mail: syredn@cardiff.ac.uk

 
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