Advanced Engineering Centre

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• 30 Finished

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  NGSSM: Next generation spray simulation model

  Rybdylova, O., Begg, S., Pannala, A. & Stafford, C.

  UKRI

  1/02/21 → 31/01/25

  Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.

  • Evaporation 100%
  • Lagrangian 73%
  • Flow 58%
  • Aerosols 54%
  • Kerosene 53%

• TOPDESS:: Two-phase passive thermal devices for deployable space systems

  Marengo, M., Georgoulas, A. & Miche, N.

  European Space Agency

  1/10/19 → 30/09/22

  Project: EU / International

  • heat pipes 100%
  • Plastic parts 96%
  • Heat pipes 82%
  • proposals 68%
  • Gravitation 64%

• BRIIM: BRI Education Partnership in Intelligent Manufacturing

  Wang, Y.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.

  • Intelligent Manufacturing 100%
  • Education 77%
  • Roads 75%
  • China 22%
  • Manufacturing 21%
• Finished

  REMP: Manufacturing made smarter: digital supply chain, feasibility studies (REMP)

  Wang, Y.

  1/04/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.

  • Remanufacturing 100%
  • Remanufactured Product 51%
  • Electronic Marketplace 38%
  • End of Life 36%
  • Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) 31%

• Plasma drilling technology for geothermal energy utilisation supporting decarbonisation of UK energy sector

  Vogiatzaki, K. & Crua, C.

  Innovate UK

  1/10/20 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.

  • drilling 100%
  • geothermal energy 77%
  • plasma 51%
  • combustion 50%
  • energy 48%

• Heating and evaporation of droplets with nano-particles: experimental studies and modelling

  Sazhin, S., Rybdylova, O. & Crua, C.

  Royal Society

  2/12/19 → 1/12/21

  Project: Charities

  • Russian Federation 100%
  • evaporation 83%
  • heating 68%
  • human pathology 54%
  • lectures 32%

• APC4 – Driving UK Capability and Economic Impact through Low Carbon Propulsion Technologies

  Atkins, P. & Morgan, R.

  Innovate UK

  1/07/19 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.

  • Plug-in hybrid vehicles 100%
  • Electric motors 84%
  • Fuel consumption 71%
  • Propulsion 70%
  • Electric vehicles 70%

• Parafix KTP

  Wang, Y. & Nguyen, K. A.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.

  • Scheduling 100%
  • Data Analytics 79%
  • Machinery 69%
  • Productivity 58%

• STEPCO2

  Morgan, R.

  Innovate UK

  1/08/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Grant

  • Engines 100%
  • Carbon 44%
  • Air 21%
  • Fuel economy 20%
  • Load limits 20%

• ATC Ltd. Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)

  Wang, Y., Covill, D. & Katz, T.

  Innovate UK - KTP

  16/07/18 → 15/07/21

  Project: Grant

  • Medical Devices 100%
  • Machining 89%
  • Computer-aided Design 75%
  • Inspection 63%
  • Knowledge Transfer 46%

• Unveiling the injection dynamics of cryogenic energy carriers for zero-emission high-efficiency systems

  Vogiatzaki, K.

  EPSRC

  29/06/18 → 28/06/21

  Project: Grant

  • Cryogenics 100%
  • Fluids 43%
  • Engines 40%
  • energy 23%
  • Evaporation 21%

• A generalised Fully Lagrangian Approach for gas-droplet flows

  Rybdylova, O.

  EPSRC

  1/04/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Grant

  • evaporation 100%
  • heating 72%
  • water 65%
  • Nozzle 61%
  • Emulsions 57%

• PaREGEn: Particle Reduced, Efficient Gasoline Engines (PaREGEn)

  Morgan, R. & Atkins, P.

  Horizon 2020

  1/11/17 → 30/09/19

  Project: Grant

  • Gasoline 100%
  • Engines 93%
  • Direct injection 29%
  • Demonstrations 21%
  • Public health 15%

• OSET Bikes: Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)

  Covill, D., Kennaird, D. & Katz, T.

  Innovate UK - KTP

  11/09/17 → 10/11/20

  Project: Grant

  • Bicycles 100%
  • vibration 92%
  • roads 84%
  • hands 73%
  • gloves 55%

• Flexible restoration for remanufacture of rolling stock components

  Wang, Y.

  Innovate UK

  1/09/17 → 31/08/18

  Project: Grant

  • restoration 100%
  • Job Shop Scheduling 85%
  • Job shop scheduling 83%
  • shop 77%
  • Analytic hierarchy process 73%

• Unified modelling framework of sub and super criticial injection dynamics

  Vogiatzaki, K.

  EPSRC

  1/07/17 → 1/01/19

  Project: Grant

  • Direct injection 100%
  • Atomization 87%
  • Gasoline 85%
  • Liquids 60%
  • Physics 52%

• HyHP: Novel Hybrid Heat Pipe for Space and Ground Applications

  Marengo, M., Georgoulas, A. & Miche, N.

  EPSRC

  1/04/17 → 31/03/20

  Project: Grant

  • Heat pipes 100%
  • Flow patterns 47%
  • Capillary flow 38%
  • Heat transfer 32%
  • Wavelet analysis 28%

• Development of a faecal pellet sensor for simultaneous monitoring of luminal signalling and muscle dynamics during defecation

  Patel, B., Yeoman, M. & Covill, D.

  EPSRC

  1/03/17 → 31/08/17

  Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.

  • defecation 100%
  • Serotonin 87%
  • anus 50%
  • rectum 45%
  • Fluoxetine 36%

• DERMA: Design of Enabling-Regenerative Materials (DERMA)

  Allan, I., Santin, M., Gard, P., Sarker, D., Chatterjee, C., Cooper, I., Cragg, P., Otter, S. & Forss, R.

  Interreg VA 2 Seas

  1/09/16 → 31/05/20

  Project: Grant

  • Emulsions 100%
  • Emulsion 86%
  • Surface active agents 72%
  • Poloxamer 68%
  • Nanoparticles 59%

• Modelling of sprays for medical and automotive applications

  Sazhin, S., Begg, S., Heikal, M. & Rybdylova, O.

  Royal Society

  1/09/16 → 31/08/18

  Project: Grant

  • Gasoline 100%
  • Method of moments 77%
  • Drug delivery 71%
  • Evaporation 70%
  • Engines 67%

• Enhanced Condensers for Microgravity (ENCOM 3)

  Marengo, M., Georgoulas, A. & Miche, N.

  European Space Agency

  1/02/16 → 31/01/19

  Project: Grant

  • microgravity 100%
  • International Space Station 87%
  • condensers 85%
  • microgravity applications 67%
  • heat transfer 55%

• Investigation of vortex ring-like structures in internal combustion engines, taking into account thermal and confinement effects

  Sazhin, S., Heikal, M. & Begg, S.

  EPSRC

  1/06/15 → 14/10/18

  Project: Grant

  • vortex rings 100%
  • ring structures 81%
  • internal combustion engines 73%
  • temperature effects 60%
  • gasoline 55%

• LOSSVAR: Assessing effect of LOcal SubSoil VARiability and Uncertainty in SSI

  Cacciola, P.

  FP7-EURATOM

  1/03/15 → 30/09/16

  Project: EU / International

  • soil-structure interaction 100%
  • benchmarking 43%
  • safety 39%
  • excavation structure 35%
  • sensitivity analysis 32%

• Parametric finite element analysis of steel bicycle frames

  Covill, D., Coren, D., Begg, S. & Blayden, A.

  1/10/14 → 30/04/15

  Project: Research

  • Bicycles 100%
  • Stiffness 59%
  • Steel 44%
  • Finite element method 42%
  • Compliance 36%

• PhD studentships on non-spherical droplets in high-pressure fuel sprays

  Crua, C.

  BP

  6/10/13 → 31/10/17

  Project: Industry

  • Nozzles 100%
  • Fuel 95%
  • Injector 89%
  • Nozzle 84%
  • Liquid films 72%

• Investigation of non-spherical droplets in high-pressure fuel sprays

  Crua, C., Gavaises, M., Sazhin, S., Heikal, M., Cossali, G. E., Sechenyh, V., Stetsyuk, S., Duret, B. & Turner, J.

  EPSRC

  1/09/13 → 31/08/16

  Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.

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  • Nozzles 100%
  • Atomization 66%
  • Fuel 63%
  • Injector 59%
  • diesel fuels 58%

• Parametric FE analysis of bicycle frame geometries

  Covill, D., Katz, T., Elton, E., Milne, M. & Morris, R.

  1/06/13 → 1/06/16

  Project: Research

  • bicycle 100%
  • stiffness 40%
  • geometry 38%
  • compliance 30%
  • alternative material 23%

• Development of the full Lagrangian approach for the analysis of vortex ring-like structures in disperse media

  Sazhin, S., Heikal, M., Begg, S., Osiptsov, A. & Kaplanski, F.

  EPSRC

  20/05/13 → 19/09/16

  Project: Grant

  • gasoline engines 100%
  • physical models 62%
  • fluid mechanics 61%
  • mathematical models 59%
  • prediction 44%

• Molecular dynamics simulation of complex molecules using quantum-chemical potentials: application to modelling fuel droplets

  Sazhin, S., Heikal, M., Gun'ko, V., Bing-Yang, C. & Shishkova, I.

  EPSRC

  25/09/12 → 24/09/15

  Project: Grant

  • molecules 100%
  • Ukraine 61%
  • Russian Federation 50%
  • evaporation 47%
  • molecular dynamics 45%

• Distinguished Visiting Fellowship award - Prof Alexander Nikolaevich Osiptsov

  Sazhin, S.

  Royal Academy of Engineering

  8/01/12 → 7/02/12

  Project: Grant

  • combustion engine 100%
  • fluid mechanics 92%
  • multiphase flow 85%
  • engineering 72%
  • modeling 63%

• Universal Spray Model for Engineering Applications

  Sazhin, S., Heikal, M., Crua, C. & Snegirev, A. Y.

  Royal Society

  1/06/10 → 31/05/12

  Project: Grant

  • sprayers 100%
  • evaporation 60%
  • heating 41%
  • temperature profiles 25%
  • temperature gradients 23%

• Development of a new quantitative kinetic model for the analysis of heating and evaporation processes in complex hydrocarbon fuel droplets

  Sazhin, S., Heikal, M., Shishkova, I. N. & Bing-Yang, C.

  EPSRC

  12/04/10 → 11/07/13

  Project: Grant

  • Evaporation 100%
  • Molecules 83%
  • Boltzmann equation 43%
  • Hydrocarbons 38%
  • Molecular dynamics 32%

• Modelling of Breakup Processes in Transient Diesel Fuel Sprays

  Sazhin, S., Crua, C., Heikal, M. & Healey, J.

  EPSRC

  1/02/09 → 30/06/12

  Project: Grant

  • Diesel fuels 100%
  • Computational fluid dynamics 95%
  • Stochastic models 69%
  • Cavitation 34%
  • Fluid dynamics 33%