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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R34714/01
Title:	Optical Planar ENhanced Interferometric Laser Imaging Droplet Sizing (OPEN-ILIDS).
Principal Investigator:	Taylor, Professor AMP
Other Investigators:	Hardalupas, Professor Y
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Department:	Mechanical Engineering
Organisation:	Imperial College London
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 September 2001	Ends:	31 May 2004	Value (£):	129,225
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. Multiphase Flow
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Chemicals Energy No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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We submit this research proposal in response to the EPSRC's `Instrument development' call and involves the construction of a prototype from base components and modifying an existing not-commercially available instrument. The context is as follows. Liquid sprays are technically important in, for example, prime movers (gas turbines and reciprocating engines). An example includes the improvements in sprays that have permitted the innovation of high pressure `common rail' diesel engines and `gasoline direct injection' engines, which are beginning to deliver reduced emissions of noxious and greenhouse gases. Sprays are also fundamental to the production of successful products in the process industries, such as spray drying. The measurement of sprays (size and velocity) has improved through the development of laser-based techniques over the past two decades. The temporally unsteady and spatially non-uniform nature of sprays has long been known from photographic evidence and is important in several contexts, including liquid-fuelled combusting flows, but has been hitherto essentially unmeasureable. This proposaldescribes work to develop an instrument, which would permit unsteady and non-uniform features to be measured as a so-called `whole field' in a routine way. The benefits would be the ability to measure these features of sprays on machine performance, would also permit the complete measurement of boundary conditions necessary for computational fluid dynamic (CFD) calculations of such fields, particularly with the advent of unsteady calculation schemes (`large eddy simulation', LES). It would also form a starting point for the measurement of the earliest stages of atomisation, immediately after the formation of ligamentsinto droplets..
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