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• 2020

  2D Titanium Carbide (Ti3C2Tx ) in Accommodating Intraocular Lens Design

  Ward, E. J., Lacey, J., Crua, C., Dymond, M. K., Maleski, K., Hantanasirisakul, K., Gogotsi, Y. & Sandeman, S., 10 May 2020, In: Advanced Functional Materials. 30, 47, p. 1-9 9 p., 2000841.

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  • titanium carbide
  • Intraocular lenses
  • Titanium carbide
  • titanium carbides
  • lens design

• 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

• 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.

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

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  • injectors
  • sprayers
  • nozzles
  • injection
  • characterization
• 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

• 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

• Quantitative analysis of dribble volumes and rates using three-dimensional reconstruction of X-ray and diffused back-illumination images of diesel sprays

  Sechenyh, V., Duke, D. J., Swantek, A. B., Matusik, K. E., Kastengren, A. L., Powell, C. F., Viera, A., Payri, R. & Crua, C., 15 Jul 2019, In: International Journal of Engine Research. 21, 1, p. 43-54 12 p.

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  • X rays
  • Lighting
  • Chemical analysis
  • Temperature
  • Gases

• 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

• 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
• 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

• 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.

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

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

• Assessment of the grid requirements for the modelling of the dynamics of high speed evaporating sprays using LES / Eulerian-Lagrangian frameworks

  Li, C., Crua, C., Morgan, R. & Vogiatzaki, K., 26 Jul 2018.

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  • Large eddy simulation
  • Multiphase flow
  • n-dodecane
  • Physics
  • Liquids

• Change of evaporation rate of single monocomponent droplet with temperature using time-resolved phase rainbow refractometry

  Wu, Y., Li, H., Wu, X., Gréhan, G., Mädler, L. & Crua, C., 3 Oct 2018, In: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 37, 3, p. 3211-3218

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  • rainbows
  • evaporation rate
  • evaporation
  • temperature
  • heptanes

• Drop impact onto attached metallic meshes: liquid penetration and spreading

  Boscariol, C., Chandra, S., Sarker, D., Crua, C. & Marengo, M., 20 Nov 2018, In: Experiments in Fluids. 59, 12, 189.

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  • mesh
  • penetration
  • porosity
  • Pore size
  • Liquids

• 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

• Fuel nozzle geometry effects on cavitation and spray behavior at diesel engine conditions

  Sforzo, B. A., Matusik, K. E., Powell, C. F., Kastengren, A. L., Daly, S., Skeen, S., Cenker, E., Pickett, L. M., Crua, C. & Manin, J., 13 May 2018. 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

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  • Cavitation
  • Diesel engines
  • Nozzles
  • Geometry
  • X rays

• 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.

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

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  • Emulsion
  • Spray
  • Droplet
  • Explosion
  • Imaging

• 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

• Simultaneous measurement of monocomponent droplet temperature/refractive index, size and evaporation rate with phase rainbow refractometry

  Wu, Y., Crua, C., Li, H., Saengkaew, S., Mädler, L., Wu, X. & Gréhan, G., 1 May 2018, In: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 214, p. 146-157 12 p.

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  • rainbows
  • evaporation rate
  • refractivity
  • temperature
  • evaporation

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• 2017

  A mathematical model for heating and evaporation of a multi-component liquid film

  Sazhin, S., Rybdylova, O. & Crua, C., 12 Oct 2017, In: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 117, p. 252-260 9 p.

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  • mathematical models
  • evaporation
  • boundary conditions
  • heating
  • liquids

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

  Poulton, L., Rybdylova, O., Sazhin, S., Crua, C., Al Qubeissi, M. & Elwardany, A., 6 Sep 2017, ILASS–Europe 2017, 28th Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. ILASS, p. 67-74 8 p.

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• 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

• 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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• 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

• 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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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• 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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• 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
• 2015

  Designing and demonstrating a Master student project to explore carbon dioxide capture technology

  Asherman, F., Cabot, G., Crua, C., Estel, L., Gagnepain, C., Lecerf, T., Ledoux, A., Leveneur, S., Lucereau, M., Maucorps, S., Ragot, M., Syrykh, J. & Vige, M., 14 Dec 2015, In: Journal of Chemical Education. 93, 4, p. 633-638 6 p.

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

  • student
  • carbon dioxide
  • pilot plant
  • project
  • school

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Modelling of biodiesel fuel droplet heating and evaporation: effects of fuel composition

  Al Qubeissi, M., Sazhin, S., Crua, C., Turner, J. & Heikal, M., 28 Mar 2015, In: Fuel. 154, p. 308-318 11 p.

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  • evaporation
  • heating
  • diffusivity
  • thermal conductivity
  • diesel fuels

• 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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• 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

• 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
• 2014

  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

• 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