| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R07066/01 |
| Title: |
Integrated Multidisciplinary Research On Advanced Direct Injection Gasoline and Diesel Engines & a Unix Parallel Processing Farm |
| Principal Investigator: |
Ladommatos, Professor N |
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| Department: |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Brunel University London |
| Scheme: |
Strategic Equipment Initiative |
| Starts: |
01 September 2000 |
Ends: |
31 March 2002 |
Value (£): |
259,425
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Combustion |
Energy Efficiency |
| Parallel Computing |
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| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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Proposal One (Advanced Direct Injection Gasoline and Diesel Engines): The impact of pollutant and CO2 emissions from automotive vehicles presents a continuous challenge to legislators, scientists and engineers. Over the last two decades, pollutant emissions from vehicles have been reduced many-fold, and further improvements are becoming increasingly more difficult to obtain. The point has now been reached, when novel approaches, pursued in a multidisciplinary environment, are required. The application will set up state-of-the-art facilities for research into advanced low emission and efficient direct injection combustion engines, pursued in a multidisciplinary research environment involving scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and environmental chemists. While better understanding and optimisation of normal combustion process for direct injection engines will be continued, the emphasis will be on the novel approaches towards cleaner and more efficient combustion engines. In particular, the development and application of the controlled autoignition combustion to direct injection gasoline engines, and employment of multiple injection and HCCI combustion in high speed direct injection diesel engines, will be pursued vigorously. In order to achieve these goals, a range of advanced laser diagnostic techniques and sophisticated CGD will be employed to study the in-cylinder flow, fuel spray, combustion, and pollutant formation in the purpose-built single cylinder research engine.Proposal Two (UNIX Parallel Processing Farm):The aim of this proposal is to exploit intermediate level computing technology to construct a high power parallel environment which would support a range of interdisciplinary modelling and simulation tasks. This type of resource will have a significant impact because the use computationally intensive models forms an important and pervasive element of research with the Faculty of Science. In addition, such a configuration would be within the reach of many commercial organisations, including those within the SME sector, and the parallel processing farm would provide valuable insights into the design of course grained parallel algorithms which optimise the use of this technology.
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http://www.brunel.ac.uk |