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Quantitative planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging of multi-component fuel/air mixing in a firing gasoline-direct-injection engine: Effects of residual exhaust gas on quantitative PLIF

Recipient of the Sugden Award (British Section of the Combustion Institute) for the ‘most significant contribution to combustion research’ for work published in 2010; it was funded by the EPSRC (GR/S58829/01) with significant additional financial, technical and scientific input from Jaguar and Shell. Planar Laser-Induced Flourescence allowed quantification of the fuel distribution in a GDI Engine. The fuel was specially designed so that different fractions co-evaporated with tracers; the rigorous calibration procedure (including the effects of residuals) allowed truly quantitative measurements to be made – something that is more often claimed than achieved.