A review on the experimental non-intrusive investigation of fuel injector phase changing flow

S Yang, Z Ma, X Li, DLS Hung, M Xu - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Two-phase in-nozzle flows, such as cavitation and flash boiling, have been well studied as
effective means to enhance spray breakup and atomization via phase change both within …

Cycle-to-cycle variation analysis of early flame propagation in engine cylinder using proper orthogonal decomposition

H Chen, M Xu, DLS Hung, H Zhuang - Experimental Thermal and Fluid …, 2014 - Elsevier
Experimental investigations on the cycle-to-cycle variations of early flame propagation were
conducted at two intake air swirl ratio of 0.55 and 5.68 in a single-cylinder spark-ignition …

Effects of an injector cooling jacket on combustion characteristics of compressed-ignition sprays with a gasoline-hydrogenated catalytic biodiesel blend

T Xuan, AI EL-Seesy, Y Mi, P Lu, W Zhong, Z He… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
The fuel properties in Gasoline Combustion ignition modes (GCI) have been adapted by
mixing high reactivity fuels for improving poor combustion stability with pure gasoline …

Three-dimensional spray–flow interaction in a spark-ignition direct-injection engine

H Chen, PM Lillo, V Sick - International Journal of Engine …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Large efforts are currently being made toward improving internal combustion engine
efficiency without degrading overall performance. To this end, advanced combustion …

Characterization of the effect of intake air swirl motion on time-resolved in-cylinder flow field using quadruple proper orthogonal decomposition

H Zhuang, DLS Hung - Energy Conversion and Management, 2016 - Elsevier
The control of intake air swirl motion is often used in spark-ignition direct-injection (SIDI)
engine to improve its in-cylinder fuel–air mixing process especially under engine idle and …

Quantitative metrics for comparison of in-cylinder velocity fields using particle image velocimetry

C Willman, B Scott, R Stone, D Richardson - Experiments in Fluids, 2020 - Springer
The in-cylinder flow field plays a key role in determining the combustion performance of
internal combustion engines (ICEs) and it is critically important to validate numerical …

Influence of swirl ratio on fuel distribution and cyclic variation under flash boiling conditions in a spark ignition direct injection gasoline engine

J Yang, M Xu, DLS Hung, Q Wu, X Dong - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
One effective way of suppressing the cycle-to-cycle variation in engine is to design a
combustion system that is robust to the root causes of engine variation over the entire …

Visual experimental investigations of string cavitation and residual bubbles in the diesel nozzle and effects on initial spray structures

G Guo, Z He, Z Zhang, L Duan… - … Journal of Engine …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, optical experiments on string cavitation and residual bubbles inside the real-
size transparent tapered diesel nozzle and near-nozzle spray structures were performed …

An experimental analysis of the spraying processes in improved design of effervescent atomizer

M Zaremba, J Kozák, M Malý, L Weiß, P Rudolf… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present study was experimentally examines the primary atomization processes in a
newly developed atomizer, similar to effervescent atomizer concept, at low pressures and …

Statistical variation analysis of fuel spray characteristics under cross-flow conditions

G Zhang, H Luo, K Kita, Y Ogata, K Nishida - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Owing to cavitation inside the nozzle, spray breakup, and complex flow fields in the cylinder
of a spark ignition engine, a certain degree of cycle-to-cycle variation (CCV) remains in …