| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S21113/01 |
| Title: |
2-D Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Equipment for Internal Combustion Engine Fuel Systems Research |
| Principal Investigator: |
Williams, Dr P |
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Mechanical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
UCL |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 June 2003 |
Ends: |
31 August 2003 |
Value (£): |
44,438
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| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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The immediate use (for a period of approximately 12 months) for the requested equipment would be in support of an existing EPSRC supported PhD project, Experimental Investigation of Near-Nozzle Characteristics of Gasoline Sprays from Pressure-Swirl Atomisers (GR/R54903/01). The equipment will be used to validate results obtained from a novel phosphorescent flow-tracking technique that is currently under development at UCL. Subsequently, the equipment would be used in support of the group's core activities in the field of (particularly DISI) fuel system and fuel spray research. In particular, the equipment will be used for the study of fuel droplet and ambient air interactions using a novel hybrid LIF-PIV technique developed at the University of Hiroshima, Japan. In this technique, an aqueous solution of rhodamine-B is injected into the ambient air prior to the fuel injection event. The fuel spray and the fluorescent droplet cloud are illuminated by a visible (532 nm) light-sheet. Discrimination of the fuel and ambient air motion is made by the spectral separation of the Stoke's shifted fluorescence signal from the rhodamine-B and the Mie-scattering signal from the fuel and tracer droplets. The 'real fuels' capability of UCL's existing fuel systems test facility would allow UCL researchers to study the effects of temperature on gasoline spray structures and droplet/airflow interactions.
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