Experiments are performed to investigate the effects of fuel spray on in-cylinder mixture preparation and its impingement on cylinder walls and piston top inside a direct-injection spark-ignition engine with optical access to the cylinder. Novel image processing algorithms are developed to analyze the fuel impingement quantitatively on in-cylinder surfaces. The technique is useful to optimize t...

We present an architecture for split-trust browsing: a technique that enables web applications to split their HTML across a pair of browsers—one untrusted browser running on a PC and one trusted browser running on a user’s personal device. Information entered via the personal device’s keypad cannot be read by the PC, thwarting PC-based keyloggers. Similarly, information displayed on the persona...

The paper proposes a novel multi-area state estimator based on wide area measurements where only boundary buses are considered in the coordination level. The power injection measurements are not used during the coordination level reducing the number of states and therefore size of the problem. Instead, a set of pseudo-measurements are included whenever a power injection measurement is available...

An alternative interface for flow injection-capillary electrophoresis based on electrokinetic injection is described. The interface basically consists of tubular platinum and a commercially available standard tee connector. The tubular platinum works as not only an electrode, but also a waste outlet of a split sample solution. The availability of the proposed interface is evaluated by the separ...

One of the main controlling parameters in diesel engine combustion is the fuel – air mixing process that has direct effects on engine performance and pollutant emissions, reviewing over previous literature showed that split injection strategies could satisfy this purpose very well. For the first time and in this paper, pilot and double injection strategies were combined and formed new triple in...

The objective of the present paper is to revisit two well-known wind gust injection methods in a consistent manner and assess their performance based on different application cases. These are field velocity method (FVM) split (SVM). For this purpose, both consistently derived pointing out link Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian formulation geometric conservation law. Furthermore, differences between...

An advanced numerical investigation has been carried out in order to study the effect of multiple injection strategies on Caterpillar heavy-duty diesel engine emissions. Both different injected fuel percentages for each pulse and several dwells between main and post phase were investigated via computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and large eddy simulation (LES). Two sets of simulations were taken...

In this study, we describe a new method for inducing choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in C57BL/6 mice, an animal model of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is a disease that causes central blindness in humans. We injected PEG-8 subretinally in different doses (0.125-2 mg) to induce CNV. After PEG-8 injection, we examined CNV at several time points (days 3-42). We also used Weste...