Turbocharging
Research areas
Turbocharger aerodynamics
- Pulsating Exhaust Flow
- Modelling turbine behaviour
- Turbine designs for pulse energy use
- Divided exhaust period turbocharging
- Compressor Surge
- Surge mitigation and prediction
- Compressor installation and pre-whirl effects
Turbocharger modelling
- Improving map-based methodologies
- Full, transient, 3D CFD
- Coupled CFD and 1D
Waste energy recovery
- Turbo-expansion and inverted Brayton cycles
- Electric turbo-compounding
- Intake throttle energy recovery
- Organic Rankin cycles
University research facilities
High performance computing
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- 1D wave action and mean-line models
University of Bath Turbocharger test facility
- Research gas stand for turbocharger performance evaluations
Dynamic engine test cells
- Turbocharger and supercharger research
Collaborators
Industrial
- Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, MAHLE Powertrain, Lotus, Caterpillar, Honeywell, Borg Warner, ABB Turbosystems, IHI, MHI.
Academic
- Imperial College London, University of Bristol, City University, Queen's University Belfast, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Brunel University.
