Dr Xinyan Wang
Senior Research Fellow - Fellowship Programme

Research area(s)

Dedicated zero/low carbon fuel engines: engine design and optimisation for hydrogen/ammonia, bio-ethanol and bio-methanol fuels.

Novel fuel designs: hydrogen and methane enriched liquid fuel designs.

Advanced hybrid electric engine systems: design and optimisaion hybrid/range-extender system based on uniflow scavenged engine.

Advanced gasoline engines: Gasoline controlled auto-ignition (CAI) combustion engine, Spark assisted controlled auto-ignition (SI-CAI) hybrid combustion engine, boosted downsized gasoline engine, 2-stroke SI/CAI combustion engines, high energy ignition systems, high efficiency gasoline engines for hybrid applications.

Advanced Natural Gas engines: pre-chamber ignition NG engine, pre-chamber and main chamber design and optimisation.

Advanced diesel engines: Application and optimisatio of Miller cycle, Variable Valve Actuation (VVA) systems, and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) diluted combustion.

Dual fuel engines: diesel-methanol dual fuel combustion engines, diesel-NG dual fuel combustion engines, fuel injection strategy optimisation, chamber design and optimisation.

2-stroke engines: uniflow scavenged 2-stroke engine for high efficiency and power density, application of variable valve actuation (VVA) system for advanced control of scavenging, advanced boosting technology and strategies for 2-stroke engine application.

Hybrid powertrain: air hybrid technologies for light duty and commercial vehicle applications, life-cycle analysis of air-hybrid engine systems.

Simulations: 1D engine simulations (WAVE, GT-Power), driving cycle simulations (MATLAB/Simulink), 3D CFD simulations (STAR-CD), chemical kinetic modelling (DARS, Chemkin).

Optical/laser diagnostics: flow field measurement, flame chemiluminescence, mixture composition and combustion species measurement, spray characterisation.