The SSFR (Steady-State Flow Rig) was a highly prestigious and confidential research project undertaken in collaboration with Ricardo UK and a motorsport company. Brighton was considered to have the skills and depth of experience required to carry out an experimental research programme focused on the pinnacle of motorsport engineering.
A specialist laboratory was designed and commissioned at the University to replicate the intake and in-cylinder conditions encountered in a racing engine operating at full-throttle. Comprehensive experimental investigations of the airflows, fuel spray injection, mixing processes and heat transfer were undertaken over a period of two years. Fundamentally, the results were used to analyse the processes of fuel spray droplet break-up in high speed gas flows that could be used to inform future racing engine design and provide validation of highly advanced computational models.
Project participants
Dr Steven Begg
Dr Guillaume de Sercey
Project partners
Ricardo UK
Project funding