Representative phenomena of cyclic turbulent combustion in high-pressure fuel sprays

A Parker, A Agrawal, J Bittle - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2023 - Springer
Cyclic variations in conventional diesel combustion engines can lead to large differences in
engine out emissions even at steady operation. This study uses an optically accessible …

Nonlinear deflection tomography of inhomogeneous flame temperature and concentration based on topology evolution with prior smoothing

ZT Niu, H Qi, S Zheng, YT Ren, MJ He, F Wang… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tomographic absorption spectroscopy (TAS) is a promising temperature and concentration
monitoring technology because it has fewer optical access requirements and species …

Nonlinear multispectral tomographic absorption deflection spectroscopy based on Bayesian estimation for spatially resolved multiparameter measurement in methane …

Z Niu, H Qi, Z Zhu, Y Ren, M He, B Gao - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
In aerospace propulsion systems with high temperature, pressure, and distortion,
inhomogeneous thermophysical gradients can cause line-of-sight deflection and spectral …

The design of a photonic crystal fiber for hydrogen cyanide gas detection

A Pourfathi Fard, S Makouei, M Danishvar, S Danishvar - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Hydrogen cyanide gas is a dangerous and fatal gas that is one of the causes of air pollution
in the environment. A small percentage of this gas causes poisoning and eventually death …

Transient mixing behavior of a supercritical fluid injected into supercritical and subcritical environments

CT Wanstall, JA Bittle, AK Agrawal - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Transient, near-field mixing of a supercritical fluid injected into supercritical and subcritical
environments is investigated experimentally. Fuel (propane) from a 100 μm diameter Bosch …

Phase diagram to demarcate supercritical, transcritical, and continuous phase regimes for binary fluid equilibrium mixing relevant to combustion applications

CT Wanstall, JA Bittle, AK Agrawal - The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2023 - Elsevier
A robust methodology to develop phase diagrams of binary fluid mixtures at fixed
thermodynamic conditions (pressure, temperature, and mole fraction) as well as of two …

Simultaneous rainbow schlieren deflectometry and OH* chemiluminescence imaging of a diesel spray flame in constant pressure flow rig

A Parker, CT Wanstall, SA Reggeti, JA Bittle… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - Elsevier
The physical and chemical phenomena that take place during fuel injection, entrainment
and fuel-air mixing, cool-flame and ignition reaction, and combustion in diesel sprays still …

Determination of the refractive index of air and its variation with temperature and pressure using a Mach–Zehnder interferometer

ME Shaheen, ST Abdelhameed, NM Abdelmoniem… - Journal of Optics, 2024 - Springer
In this study, we determined the refractive index of the air at different pressures and
temperatures using a home-built Mach–Zehnder interferometer. The pressure and …

Limitations of cetane number to predict transient combustion phenomena in high-pressure fuel sprays

A Parker, SA Reggeti, JA Bittle, AK Agrawal - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
Fundamental understanding of in-cylinder processes in diesel engines is important to
screen emerging biofuels and advanced combustion modes that can reduce greenhouse …

[HTML][HTML] H2S gas sensor based on Weyl semimetal and 1D porous silicon photonic crystal

H Pourhassan, SO Abdol, B Abdollahipour - Results in Physics, 2025 - Elsevier
Hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) is a highly toxic and hazardous gas commonly found in refineries,
petroleum, and natural gas environments. It is also explosive and heavier than air. We …