Cyril Crua

Cyril Crua is a Professor at the Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories within the Advanced Engineering Centre. He has 20 years’ experience in optical and laser-based diagnostics for experimental fluid dynamics, with a focus on spray formation and combustion.

My research focuses on experimental fluid dynamics, and particularly on the development of optical diagnostic techniques to investigate the physics of complex flows and atomisation. My current research interests include:

• Optical diagnostic techniques for sprays and combustion
• Spray formation and breakup
• Microscopic imaging of sprays
• Experimental fluid dynamics diesel engines spray formation and breakup

Selected publications

• Wu Y, Li H, Wu X, Gréhan G, Mädler L, Crua C, 2018, Change of evaporation rate of single monocomponent droplet with temperature using time-resolved phase rainbow refractometry. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, in press
• Ismael M, Heikal M, Aziz ARA, Syah F, Zainal E, Crua C, 2018, The effect of fuel injection equipment on the dispersed phase of water-in-diesel emulsions. Applied Energy, vol 222, pp. 762-771
• Crua C, Manin J, Pickett LM, 2017, On the transcritical mixing of fuels at diesel engine conditions. Fuel 208
• Förster F, Crua C, Davy M, Ewart P, 2017, Time-resolved gas thermometry by laser-induced grating spectroscopy with a high-repetition rate laser system. Experiments in Fluids, vol 58(87)
• Crua C, Heikal MR, Gold MR, 2015, Microscopic imaging of the initial stage of diesel spray formation. Fuel 157