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• 2014

  Multi-dimensional quasi-discrete model for the investigation of heating and evaporation of diesel fuel droplets

  Al Qubeissi, M., Sazhin, S., De Sercey, G. & Crua, C., 9 Sep 2014, ILASS - Europe 2014, 26th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. Bremen, Germany, p. 0-0 1 p.

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  • Diesel fuels
  • Evaporation
  • Heating
  • Paraffins
  • Naphthalene
• 2013

  Image-based analysis of evaporating diesel sprays in the near-nozzle region

  Crua, C., De Sercey, G., Gold, M. & Heikal, M., 1 Sep 2013, ILASS – Europe 2013, 25th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. ILASS, p. 0-0 1 p.

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  • sprayers
  • nozzles
  • spray nozzles
  • diesel fuels
  • injection
• 2014

  Safety assessment of epoxidation reaction

  Leveneur, S., Ledoux, A., Taouk, B., Estel, L., Crua, C. & Salmi, T., 1 Jan 2014, 21st International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering, CHISA 2014 and 17th Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction, PRES 2014. Czech Society of Chemical Engineering, Vol. 3. 1 p.

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• Direct imaging of primary atomisation in the near-nozzle region of diesel sprays

  Stetsyuk, V., Crua, C., Pearson, R. & Gold, M., 8 Sep 2014, ILASS – Europe 2014, 26th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. Bremen, Germany, p. 0-0 1 p.

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  • Atomization
  • Nozzles
  • Imaging techniques
  • Microscopes
  • Ligaments
• 2018

  Temperature measurements under diesel engine conditions using laser induced grating spectroscopy

  Förster, F., Crua, C., Davy, M. & Ewart, P., 1 Nov 2018, In: Combustion and Flame. 199, p. 249-257

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • diesel engines
  • temperature measurement
  • gratings
  • spectroscopy
  • lasers
• 2019

  Simulation and Measurement of Transient Fluid Phenomena within Diesel Injection

  Gold, M., Pearson, R., Turner, J., Sykes, D., Stetsyuk, V., de Sercey, G., Crua, C., Koukouvinis, P. & Gavaises, M., 15 Jan 2019, International Powertrains, Fuels & Lubricants Meeting. January ed. SAE International, Vol. 2019-January. 2019-01-0066. (SAE Technical Papers).

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  • Fluids
  • Fuel injection
  • Diesel fuels
  • Discharge (fluid mechanics)
  • Automotive fuels
• 2017

  Mathematical modelling of heating and evaporation of a spheroidal droplet

  Zubkov, V., Cossali, G., Tonini, S., Rybdylova, O., Crua, C., Heikal, M. & Sazhin, S., 28 Jan 2017, In: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 108, Part B, p. 2181-2190 10 p.

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  • evaporation
  • heating
  • oblate spheroids
  • prolate spheroids
  • diesel engines

• Drop Impact onto a Metallic Porous Layer: Effect of Liquid Viscosity and Air Entrapment

  Boscariol, C., Sarker, D., Kang, B., Crua, C. & Marengo, M., 8 Sep 2017, ILASS–Europe 2017, 28th Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. Valencia, Spain: Universitat Politècnica de València, p. 0-0 1 p.

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• 2015

  Modelling of Heating and Evaporation of Biodiesel Fuel Droplets

  Sazhin, S., Al Qubeissi, M., Crua, C. & Heikal, M., 30 Jan 2015, International Conference on Heat Transfer and Applications. London: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 9. p. 46-49 4 p. (International Journal of Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial and Mechatronics Engineering).

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  • Biodiesel
  • Evaporation
  • Heating
  • Direct injection
  • Thermal gradients

• The effect of operating conditions on post-injection fuel discharge in an optical engine

  Turner, J., Stetsyuk, V., Crua, C., Gold, M. & Pearson, R., 23 Aug 2015, p. 1-8.

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  • engine
  • effect
  • combustion
  • speed
  • fluid dynamics
• 2020

  Droplet Impact on Suspended Metallic Meshes: Effects of Wettability, Reynolds and Weber Numbers

  Vontas, K., Boscariol, C., Andredaki, M., Georgoulas, A., Crua, C., Walther, J. H. & Marengo, M., 22 May 2020, In: Fluids. 5, 2, 81.

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  • Wetting
  • mesh
  • penetration
  • Liquids
  • liquids
• 2016

  Puffing and Microexplosion Behavior of Water in Pure Diesel Emulsion Droplets During Leidenfrost Effect

  Khan, M. Y., Aziz, A. R. A., Heikal, M. & Crua, C., 29 Dec 2016, In: Combustion Science and Technology. 189, 7, p. 1186-1197 12 p.

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  • emulsions
  • water
  • high speed cameras
  • moisture content
  • coalescing
• 2014

  Selection of test methods to examine the fracture mechanics of carbon fibre composite flywheels

  Lenz, J., Blackman, B. R. K., Taylor, A. C., Morgan, R. & Crua, C., 1 Jan 2014, 16th European Conference on Composite Materials, ECCM 2014. European Conference on Composite Materials, ECCM

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  • Carbon Fiber
  • Flywheels
  • Fracture mechanics
  • Carbon fibers
  • Composite materials
• 2020

  Quantitative characterisations of spray deposited liquid films and post-injection discharge on diesel injectors

  Sykes, D., Turner, J., Stetsyuk, V., De Sercey, G., Gold, M., Pearson, R. & Crua, C., 11 Dec 2020, In: Fuel. 289, 119833.

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  • injectors
  • sprayers
  • nozzles
  • injection
  • characterization
• 2015

  Droplet size and morphology characterization for diesel sprays under atmospheric operating conditions

  Stetsyuk, V., Turner, J., Crua, C., Pearson, R. & Gold, M., Aug 2015.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Characterization (materials science)
  • Ligaments
  • Nozzles
  • Microscopic examination
  • Image resolution
• 2018

  The effect of unstable emulsion of water-in-diesel on micro-explosion phenomena

  Ismael, M. A., Heikal, M. R., Aziz, A. R. A., Crua, C. & El-Adawy, M., 13 Nov 2018, 6th International Conference on Production, Energy and Reliability 2018: World Engineering Science and Technology Congress, ESTCON 2018. American Institute of Physics Inc., Vol. 2035. 050007

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  • emulsions
  • explosions
  • water
  • coalescing
  • occurrences

• Primary rainbow of high refractive index particle (1.547 < n < 2) has refraction ripples

  Wu, Y., Li, C., Crua, C., Wu, X., Saengkaew, S., Chen, L., Gréhan, G. & Cen, K., 31 May 2018, In: Optics Communications. 426, p. 237-241 5 p.

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  • Refractive index
  • Refraction
  • Wave interference
  • Water
  • Liquids
• 2014

  Time-resolved fuel injector flow characterisation based on 3D laser Doppler vibrometry

  Crua, C. & Heikal, M., 29 Oct 2014, In: Measurement Science & Technology. 25, 12, 125301.

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  • Characterization (materials science)
  • Nozzles
  • Lasers
  • Cavitation
  • Pressure transducers
• 2016

  A model for droplet heating and its implementation into ANSYS Fluent

  Rybdylova, O., Al Qubeissi, M., Braun, M., Crua, C., Manin, J. L., Pickett, L. M., De Sercey, G., Sazhina, E., Sazhin, S. & Heikal, M., 26 May 2016, In: International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 76, p. 265-270 6 p.

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  • Heating
  • Heat conduction
  • Evaporation
  • Air
• 2018

  A simple model for puffing/micro-explosions in water-fuel emulsion droplets

  Sazhin, S., Rybdylova, O., Crua, C., Heikal, M., Ismael, M., Nissar, Z. & Aziz, R., 28 Nov 2018, In: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 131, p. 815-821 7 p.

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  • Emulsions
  • emulsions
  • Explosions
  • explosions
  • Water

• Investigation of puffing and micro-explosion of water-in-diesel emulsion spray using shadow imaging

  Ismael, M. A., Heikal, M. R., Aziz, A. R. A., Crua, C., El-Adawy, M., Nissar, Z., Baharom, M. B., Zainal, E. Z. A. & Firmansyah, 30 Aug 2018, In: Energies. 11, 9, 2281.

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  • Emulsion
  • Spray
  • Droplet
  • Explosion
  • Imaging
• 2012

  Advancement in turbulent spray modelling: The effect of internal temperature gradient in droplets

  Snegirev, A. Y., Talalov, V. A., Tsoi, A. S., Sazhin, S. S. & Crua, C., 1 Jul 2012, Proceedings of CHT-12. ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, 2012. Begell House, Inc., p. 1065-1089 25 p. (International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer).

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  • Thermal gradients
  • sprayers
  • temperature gradients
  • Polynomial approximation
  • surface temperature

• Investigation of the internal dynamics of diesel nozzles by time-resolved laser doppler vibrometry

  Crua, C. & Heikal, M., 2 Sep 2012, ICLASS 2012: 12th triennial international conference on liquid atomization and spray systems. Italy: ILASS, p. 0-0 1 p.

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• Dropsizing of Near-Nozzle Diesel and RME Sprays by Microscopic Imaging

  Crua, C., De Sercey, G., Heikal, M. & Gold, M., 2 Sep 2012, ICLASS 2012, 12th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. Heidelberg, Germany, p. 0-0 1 p.

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  • diesel fuels
  • sprayers
  • nozzles
  • ligaments
  • image processing
• 2014

  Optical investigation of cylinder oil sprays in slow-speed marine diesel engines

  De Sercey, G., Gardhouse, T., Crua, C., Edwards, S., Thompson, C. & de la Garza, O., 24 Jun 2014, Lubrication, Maintenance and Tribotechnology LUBMAT 2014. Manchester, UK, p. 0-0 1 p.

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  • diesel engines
  • lubricants
  • sprayers
  • oils
  • linings

• Shadowgraphic characterisation of marine lubricant sprays

  Gardhouse, T., De Sercey, G., Crua, C., Edwards, S. & Thompson, C., 9 Sep 2014, ILASS - Europe 2014, 26th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. Bremen, Germany, p. 0-0 1 p.

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  • lubricants
  • sprayers
  • characterization
  • linings
  • spray nozzles
• 2018

  Drop impact onto suspended and surface-attached metallic meshes: liquid penetration and spreading

  Boscariol, C., Sarker, D., Chandra, S., Crua, C. & Marengo, M., 26 Jul 2018, p. 0-0. 1 p.

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  • Liquids
  • Pore size
  • Paper coating
  • Substrates
  • Drug delivery
• 2015

  Thermal risk assessment of vegetable oil epoxidation

  Leveneur, S., Estel, L. & Crua, C., 20 Jun 2015, In: Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 122, 2, p. 795-804 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • epoxidation
  • Epoxidation
  • vegetables
  • risk assessment
  • Plant Oils
• 2019

  Visual analyses of end of injection liquid structures and the behaviour of nozzle surface-bound fuel in a direct injection diesel engine

  Sykes, D., de Sercey, G., Gold, M., Pearson, R. & Crua, C., 15 Jan 2019, International Powertrains, Fuels & Lubricants Meeting. January ed. United States: SAE International, Vol. 2019-January. (SAE Technical Papers).

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  • Direct injection
  • Diesel engines
  • Nozzles
  • Liquids
  • Wetting
• 2015

  Microscopic imaging of the initial stage of diesel spray formation

  Crua, C., Heikal, M. & Gold, M., 7 May 2015, In: Fuel. 157, p. 140-150 11 p.

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  • spray
  • diesel
  • diesel fuel
  • fluid
  • engine
• 2017

  Quantification of diesel injector dribble using 3D reconstruction from x-ray and DBI imaging

  Sechenyh, V., Turner, J., Sykes, D., Duke, D. J., Swantek, A. B., Matusik, K. E., Kastengren, A. L., Powell, C. F., Viera, A., Payri, R. & Crua, C., 6 Sep 2017, ILASS2017 - 28th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. Editorial Universitat Politecnica De Valencia, p. 216 7 p.

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  • Ligaments
  • X rays
  • Lighting
  • Imaging techniques
  • Image processing
• 2019

  Effect of the scale resolution on the two phase coupling characteristics of high speed evaporating sprays using LES / Eulerian-Lagrangian methodologies

  Cuicui, L., Cyril, C. & Konstantina, V., 26 Jun 2019, In: International Journal of Multiphase Flow. 120, 103060.

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  • Large eddy simulation
  • large eddy simulation
  • sprayers
  • mesh
  • methodology
• 2015

  Modelling of gasoline fuel droplets heating and evaporation

  Al Qubeissi, M., Sazhin, S., Turner, J., Begg, S., Crua, C. & Heikal, M., 16 Jun 2015, In: Fuel. 159, p. 373-384 12 p.

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• 2017

  Transcritical mixing of sprays for multi-component fuel mixtures

  Manin, J., Crua, C. & Pickett, L. M., 6 Sep 2017, ILASS2017 - 28th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. ILASS, p. 553-560 8 p.

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  • Thermodynamics
  • Liquids
  • Paraffins
  • Extrapolation
  • Microscopic examination
• 2015

  Microscopic observation of miscible mixing in sprays at elevated temperatures and pressures

  Manin, J., Pickett, L. M. & Crua, C., May 2015, ILASS Americas. ILASS

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  • sprayers
  • interfacial tension
  • temperature
  • microscopy
  • ligaments
• 2016

  An overview of experimental techniques of the investigation of water-diesel emulsion characteristics droplets micro-explosion

  Ismael, M. A., Heikal, M. R., Rashid, A., Aziz, A. & Crua, C., 1 Oct 2016, In: ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 11, 20, p. 11975-11981 7 p.

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  • Emulsions
  • Explosions
  • Water
  • Nitrogen oxides
  • Industrial heating
• 2017

  On the transcritical mixing of fuels at diesel engine conditions

  Crua, C., Manin, J. L. & Pickett, L. M., 21 Jul 2017, In: Fuel. 208, p. 535-548 14 p.

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  • diesel engines
  • interfacial tension
  • supercritical fluids
  • heptanes
  • atomizing

• A model for multi-component droplet heating and evaporation and its implementation into ANSYS Fluent

  Rybdylova, O., Poulton, L., Al Qubeissi, M., Elwardany, A., Crua, C., Knan, T. & Sazhin, S., 22 Nov 2017, In: International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 90, p. 29-33 5 p.

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  • Evaporation
  • Heating
  • Acetone
  • Heat conduction
  • Ethanol

• A study of the controlling parameters of fuel air mixture formation for ECN Spray A

  Vogiatzaki, K., Crua, C., Morgan, R. & Heikal, M., 10 Sep 2017, Proceedings 28th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS). Valencia, Spain, p. 1-8 8 p.

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  • Air
  • Evaporation
  • Turbulence
  • Diesel fuels
  • Combustion chambers
• 2016

  Drop impact onto a metallic porous layer: scale effects

  Boscariol, C., Sarker, D., Crua, C. & Marengo, M., 7 Sep 2016, ILASS – Europe 2016, 27th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. Brighton, UK, p. 0-0 1 p.

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• 2014

  Evaporating droplets: comparisons between DNS and modelling

  Duret, B., Al Qubeissi, M., Sazhin, S. & Crua, C., 1 Jan 2014, ILASS – Europe 2014, 26th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. Bremen, Germany: ILASS, p. 0-0 1 p.

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  • direct numerical simulation
  • Peclet number
  • thermal conductivity
  • heat transfer
  • evaporation
• 2012

  A breakup model for transient Diesel fuel sprays

  Turner, M. R., Sazhin, S., Healey, J. J., Crua, C. & Martynov, S. B., 2012, In: Fuel. 97, p. 288-305 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • fuel sprays
  • diesel fuels
  • shear layers
  • flow stability
  • liquids
• 2018

  Assessing the importance of surface tension effect for simulating the sub-grid scale interaction of turbulence and cavitation in micro-channel flows

  McGinn, P., Crua, C. & Vogiatzaki, K., 22 Jul 2018.

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  • Channel flow
  • Cavitation
  • Surface tension
  • Turbulence
  • Bubble formation
• 2016

  Drop impact onto porous surface: scale effects

  Boscariol, C., Sarker, D., Crua, C. & Marengo, M., 7 Sep 2016, p. 229-230. 2 p.

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• 2019

  Assessing the role of surface tension force to the simulation of sub-grid scale interaction of turbulence and cavitation under realistic diesel injection conditions

  McGinn, P., Crua, C. & Vogiatzaki, K., 1 Jan 2019, Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Fuel Systems Engines Conference 2018. Mechanical Engineering for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, p. 175-188 14 p. (Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Fuel Systems Engines Conference 2018).

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  • Cavitation
  • Surface tension
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulence models
  • Nozzles
• 2018

  The effect of fuel injection equipment on the dispersed phase of water-in-diesel emulsions

  Ismael, M., Heikal, M., Aziz, A. R. A., Syah, F., Zainal, E. & Crua, C., 24 Apr 2018, In: Applied Energy. 222, p. 762-771 10 p.

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  • Fuel injection
  • Emulsions
  • Water
  • Engines
  • Fuel tanks
• 2016

  Aerodynamical phenomena in a large top covered wind mill with vertical axis wind turbine

  Baïri, A., Crua, C., Bauzin, J-G. & Baïri, I., 4 Jan 2016, In: International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow. 26, 1, p. 365-379 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • wind turbine
  • aerodynamics
  • mill
  • air mass
  • finite volume method
• 2018

  The Effect of Fuel Injection Equipment of Water-In-Diesel Emulsions on Micro-Explosion Behaviour

  A. Ismael, M., R. Heikal, M., A. Aziz, A. R. & Crua, C., 25 Jun 2018, In: Energies. 11, 7, 1650.

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  • Fuel injection
  • Emulsions
  • Explosions
  • Water
  • Shear flow
• 2017

  Modelling of heating and evaporation of spheroidal droplets

  Zubkov, V., Cossali, G. E., Tonini, S., Crua, C. & Sazhin, S. S., 28 May 2017, Proceedings of CHT-17 ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer. Begell House, Inc., p. 947-950

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• Time-resolved gas thermometry by laser-induced grating spectroscopy with a high-repetition rate laser system

  Förster, F., Crua, C., Davy, M. & Ewart, P., 7 Jun 2017, In: Experiments in Fluids. 58, 87

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  • temperature measurement
  • repetition
  • gratings
  • spectroscopy
  • gases