Programme
The complete programme of the workshop, along with the abstracts, can also be downloaded.
Day 1
26th June 2017
19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception and Registration
Day 2
27th June 2017
08:15-08:45 Coffee and Welcome
| Session 1: Experiments | |
| 08:50-09:00 | Prof Manolis Gavaises (City, University of London, UK) Welcome & opening address |
| 09:00-09:40 | Prof Josesh Katz (John’s Hopkins University, USA) Cavitation Breakdown in Pumps – Prevailing Theories and Reality |
| 09:40-10:20 | Assoc. Prof. Matevz Dular (University of Ljubljana, SI) Cavitation and cavitation erosion in cryogenic fluids |
| 10:20-11:00 | Dr I. Karathanassis & Prof Manolis Gavaises (City, University of London, UK) X-ray measurements in injector flows |
11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea break
| Session 2: Numerical Simulations | |
| 11:30-12:10 | Prof Marc Fivel (SIMaP, Grenoble INP Materials Science, FR) Modeling Cavitation Erosion of Metals |
| 12:10-12:50 | Dr F. Koukouvinis & Prof Manolis Gavaises (City, University of London, UK) Simulation of cavitating vortices – comparison with X-ray measurements |
12:50-14:30 Lunch Break
| Session 3: Poster Session |
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| 14:30–14.40 | Mr. Saad Jahangir (Delft University of Technology) Re-entrant jet and bubbly shock mechanism in a cavitating venture |
14.40–14.50 | Mr. Prasanta Sarkar (University of Grenoble Alpes) Cavitation bubble dynamics and surface erosion by laser generated bubbles |
14.50–15.00 | Mr. Bogdan Lakatosh (Moscow Institute of Physics and) Laser-generated cavitation effects in liquid metal microdroplets |
15.00–15.10 | Mr. Tadej Stepisnik Perdih (University of Ljubljana) Enhancing surfactant dissolution using cavitation |
15.10–15.20 | Mr. Fakhry Abuzahra (UMR 6614 CORIA) Cavitation in a scaled-up 2D-Transparent Nozzle: Experimental Rig Realization & Preliminary Results |
15.20–15.30 | Mr. Mr Markus Hosbach (Bundeswehr University Munich) Temperature and pressure effects on cavitation erosion in diesel-like fuels |
15.30–15.40 | Mr. Andreas Rees (Institute of Space Propulsion – German Aerospace Center) Croygenic flash boiling in liquid rocket engines |
15.40–15.50 | Mr. Nikolaos Kyriazis (City, University of London) Modelling cavitation during droplet impact on solid surfaces |
15.50–16.00 | Mr. Nikolaos Bembedelis (University College London) Numerical simulations of shock wave induced bubble collapse |
16.00–16.10 | Ms. Homa Naseri (City, University of London) Effect of Fuel Additives on Hydrodynamic Flow in Modern Diesel Fuel Injection Systems |
16.10–16.20 | Mr. Shrey Joshi (University of Grenoble Alpes) Cavitation erosion modeling using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics |
16.20–16.30 | Mr Houman Rokni (AFTON Chemicals) Group Contribution SAFT-Based Prediction of Diesel Fuel Properties at High-T, High-P |
16.30–16.40 | Mr. Carlos Rodriguez (City, University of London) Supercritical and transcritical real-fluid mixing using the PC-SAFT EoS |
17:00–18:00 | Walking in posters |
19:00-20:00 Drinks reception
20:00-24:00 Gala Dinner
Day 3
28th June 2017
08:15-08:45 Coffee and Welcome
| Session 4: Ultrasound / bubble dynamics | |
| 09:00-09:40 | Prof Shuhong Liu (Tsinghua University, CHN) Motion of a free-settling spherical particle driven by a growing laser-induced bubble |
| 09:40-10:20 | Dr Ian Rivens & Prof Gail Ter Haar (Institute of Cancer Research, UK) Cavitation detection for ultrasound imaging guided therapy ultrasound |
| 10:20-11:00 | Dr Robert Mettin (Goettingen, DE) Direct observation of sonoluminescing bubble dynamics in multi-bubble field |
11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea break
| Session 5: Industrial Applications I | |
| 11:30-12:10 | Dr Lyle Pickett (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Linking internal nozzle cavitation to variance in diesel combustion |
| 12:10-12:50 | Dr Robert McDavid (Caterpillar, USA) Modeling fuel injector cavitation impacts on combustion in Large Diesel Engines |
12:50-14:00 Lunch Break
| Session 6: Industrial Applications II |
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| 14:00-14:40 | Dr Russel Locket (City, University of London, UK) Cavitation effects on fuels |
| 14:40-15:20 | Mr Christiano Bombardieri (DLR, DE) Cavitation and multi-phase phenomena in liquid rocket engine systems |
| 15:20-16:00 | Dr Andrew King (Rolls Royce Controls, UK) & Dr Mark Brend (Loughborough University, UK) Cavitation in fuel pumps |
| 16:30-17:00 | Discussion & Closing Remarks |