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Micro-explosion of Fuel Blends in Low Carbon Diesel Engines: Experimental and modelling study

Funder: EPSRC
Duration: April 2013 - April 2016

People

Name Telephone Email Office
Dr Jun Xia Dr Jun Xia
Reader
T: +44 (0)1895 265433
E: jun.xia@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265433 jun.xia@brunel.ac.uk Howell Building 133
Professor Thanos Megaritis Professor Thanos Megaritis
Professor Head of Department-MAE
(Principal investigator)
T: +44 (0)1895 266682
E: thanos.megaritis@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266682 thanos.megaritis@brunel.ac.uk Howell Building 109
Professor Lionel Ganippa Professor Lionel Ganippa
Professor
T: +44 (0)1895 266721
E: lionel.ganippa@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266721 lionel.ganippa@brunel.ac.uk Howell Building 103A

Outputs

Avulapati, MM., Pos, R., Megaritis, A. and Ganippa, L. (2023) 'Insights into near nozzle spray evolution, ignition and air/flame entrainment in high pressure spray flames'. Fuel: the science and technology of fuel and energy, 293. pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 0016-2361 Open Access Link

Journal article

Ruiz-Rodriguez, I., Cracknell, R., Parkes, M., Megaritis, A. and Ganippa, L. (2021) 'Experimental study on sooting propensities of ternary blends of n-dodecane, isododecane, and C8 oxygenates at high pressures'. Combustion and Flame, 23 (Sep 2021). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 0010-2180 Open Access Link

Journal article

Ruiz-Rodriguez, I., Cracknell, R., Parkes, M., Megaritis, T. and Ganippa, L. (2020) 'Experimental study of the effect of C8 oxygenates on sooting processes in high pressure spray flames'. Combustion and Flame, 220 (October 2020). pp. 235 - 246. ISSN: 0010-2180 Open Access Link

Journal article

Ruiz-Rodriguez, I., Cracknell, R., Parkes, M., Megaritis, T. and Ganippa, L. (2019) 'Experimental study on the combustion characteristics of high-pressure octanal spray flames'. Fuel, 262 (15 February 2020). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 0016-2361 Open Access Link

Journal article

Avulapati, MM., Megaritis, T., Xia, J. and Ganippa, L. (2018) 'Experimental understanding on the dynamics of micro-explosion and puffing in ternary emulsion droplets'. Fuel, 239. pp. 1284 - 1292. ISSN: 0016-2361 Open Access Link

Journal article

Xia, J. and Shinjo, J. (2017) 'Microexplosion and Puffing of an Emulsion Fuel Droplet'.28th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems - ILASS-Europe 2017. Valencia, Spain. Universitat Politècnica València. pp. 432 - 439.Open Access Link

Conference paper

Avulapati, M., Pos, R., Megaritis, A., Xia, J. and Ganippa, L. (2016) 'Characteristics of High Pressure Ethanol Spray Flames in Diesel Engine-like Environment using Optical Diagnostics'.ILASS-Asia. Chennai, India.

Conference paper

Shinjo, J. and Xia, J. (2016) 'Combustion characteristics of a single decane/ethanol emulsion droplet and a droplet group under puffing conditions'. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 36 (2). pp. 2513 - 2521. ISSN: 1873-2704 Open Access Link

Journal article

Shinjo, J., Xia, J., Ganippa, LC. and Megaritis, A. (2016) 'Puffing-enhanced fuel/air mixing of an evaporating n-decane/ethanol emulsion droplet and a droplet group under convective heating'. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 793. pp. 444 - 476. ISSN: 1469-7645 Open Access Link

Journal article

Shinjo, J., Xia, J., Megaritis, A., Ganippa, LC. and Cracknell, RF. (2016) 'Modeling temperature distribution inside an emulsion fuel droplet under convective heating: A key to predicting microexplosion and puffing'. Atomization and Sprays, 26 (6). pp. 551 - 583. ISSN: 1044-5110 Open Access Link

Journal article

Avulapati, MM., GANIPPA, LC., Xia, J. and Megaritis, A. (2015) 'Puffing and Micro-Explosion of Diesel-Biodiesel-Ethanol Blends'. Fuel, 166. pp. 59 - 66. ISSN: 0016-2361 Open Access Link

Journal article

Shinjo, J., Xia, J., Ganippa, LC. and Megaritis, A. (2014) 'Physics of puffing and microexplosion of emulsion fuel droplets'. Physics of Fluids, 26 (10). ISSN: 1070-6631 Open Access Link

Journal article

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