ACART
image
---

Recent Publications

Book chapters

  1. Manzie, C., 2010, Relative Fuel Economy Potential of Intelli- gent, Hybrid and Intelligent-Hybrid Passenger Vehicles In Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Vehicles Ed. G Pistoia, Elsevier, in press.
  2. Meyer, T.R., Brear, M.J., Jin. S.H. and Gord, J.R., 2010, “Formation and diagnostics of sprays in combustion”, chapter 11, volume 2: “Combustion diagnostics and pollutants” in Handbook of Combustion, Wiley, ISBN 978-3-527-32449-1

Refereed journal articles

  1. R. Sharma, D. Nesic and C. Manzie, 2010, Model Reduction of Turbocharged (TC) Spark Ignition (SI) Engines. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, in press.
  2. Brear, M.J. and Wiese, A., 2009, “Linear and non-linear dynamics of a fast response air-to-fuel ratio sensor”, Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 20
  3. Jin, S.H., Brear, M.J., Watson, H.C. and Brewster, S., 2008,'An experimental study of the spray from an air-assisted, direct fuel injector', Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, vol. 222, no. 10, pg. 1883-1894
  4. Boretti, A., Jin, S.H., Brear, M.J., Zakis, G., Attard, W., Watson, H.C. Brewster, S. and Bryce, W., 2008,'Experimental and numerical study of a spark ignition engine with air assisted, direct injection', Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, vol. 222, no. 6, pg. 1103-1119
  5. Mehrani, P, Watson, H.C., 2008,'A search for maximum efficiency and NOx reduction through spark-ignition engine design optimisation at lambda=1', Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, Volume 222, Number 5, pp. 875-886
  6. Gani, E. and Manzie, C., 2007,'Intelligent classification between misfire and misfuel in automotive engines', Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, vol. 221, 1183-1195.
  7. Manzie, C., Halgamuge, S. and Watson, H., 2007,'Fuel economy improvements for urban driving: Hybrid vs Intelligent Vehicles', Transportation Research Part C, vol. 15, 1-16.

Conference publications

  1. R Sharma, D Nesic and C Manzie (In press, accepted May 2010) Idle speed control using linear time varying model predictive control and discrete time approximations. In 2010 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, Yokohama, Japan September 2010.
  2. D. I. Andrianov, F. Keynejad , R. Dingli, M. J. Brear and C. Manzie (2010) A Cold- Start Emissions Model of an Engine and Aftertreatment System for Optimisation Studies. In SAE 2010 World Congress, Paper 2010-01-1274.
  3. R. Sharma, D. Nesic and C. Manzie (2009) Model Reduction of Automotive Engines using Perturbation Theory. In IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Shanghai, China, pp 6602- 6607.
  4. C. Manzie, F. Keynejad, D. I. Andrianov, R. Dingli and G. Voice (2009) A control- oriented model for cold start operation of spark ignition engines. In 2009 IFAC Workshop on Engine and Powertrain Control, Simulation and Modeling, (E-CoSM ’09) Paris, France.
  5. D. Andrianov, R. Dingli, M. Brear and C. Manzie (2009) The Effect of Grid Resolution and Oxygen Storage in a One-Dimensional Monolithic Three-Way Catalyst Model. In 2009 IFAC Workshop on Engine and Powertrain Control, Simulation and Modeling, (E-CoSM ’09) Paris, France.
  6. D. Andrianov, R. Dingli, M. Brear and C. Manzie (2009) One-Dimensional Three-Way Catalyst Model for Optimisation Studies. In 2009 Australian Combustion Symposium Brisbane, Australia.
  7. F. Lodi, H C Watson, C Manzie, G Voice and R Dingli (2009) Reducing Cold Start Fuel Consumption through Improved Thermal Management In FISITA Asia Pacific Automotive Conference - APAC 15 Hanoi, Vietnam.
  8. Watson H.C., Brear M.J., Dennis P. and Abbasi-Atibeh P., 2010, “Torque, efficiency and NOC emissions of the turbocharged always lean burn spark ignition (TC_ALSI) engine”, presented at the FISITA World Automotive Conference, paper no. F2010-A-080
  9. Khan M.A., Watson, H.C., 2010, “4L Light Duty LPG Engine Evaluated for Heavy Duty Application”, presented at the SAE Fuels and Lubricants Conference, paper no. 10SFL-0262
  10. Watson H.C., 2010, “Optimising the service life of vehicles in a world of improving CO2 emissions”, presented at the FISITA World Automotive Conference, paper no. F2010-H-012
  11. Watson H.C., Mehrani P., 2010, “The Performance and Emissions of the Turbocharged Always Lean Burn Spark Ignition (TC-ALSI) Engine”, presented at the SAE World Conference, paper no. 2010-01-1235
  12. Attard W.P., Toulson E., Hamori F. and Watson H.C., 2010, “Abnormal Combustion including Mega Knock in a 60% Downsized Highly Turbocharged PFI Engine”, presented at the SAE World Conference, paper no. 2010-01-1456
  13. Watson, H.C. and Gledhill, M.P., 2010, “Comparison of Knock in a Jet Assisted Ignition and Normal SI Engine”, presented at the Asia-Pacific Automotive Conference, paper no. APAC 15 – 225
  14. Sharma, R., Nesic, D. and Manzie, 2009, 'Model Reduction of Automotive Engines using Perturbation Theory', to be presented at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Beijing, China.
  15. Manzie, C., Keynejad, F., Andrianov, D., Dingli, R. and Voice, G., 2009, 'A control-oriented model for cold start operation of spark ignition engines', to be presented at the 2009 IFAC Workshop on Engine and Powertrain Control, Simulation and Modeling, (E-CoSM '09) Paris, France
  16. Andrianov, D., Dingli, R., Brear, M.J. and Manzie, C., 2009, 'The Effect of Grid Resolution and Oxygen Storage in a One-Dimensional Monolithic Three-Way Catalyst Model', to be presented at the 2009 IFAC Workshop on Engine and Powertrain Control, Simulation and Modeling, (E-CoSM '09) Paris, France
  17. Kim, T.S., Manzie, C. and Sharma, R., 2009,'Model Predictive Control of Velocity and Torque Split in a Parallel Hybrid Vehicle', to be presented at the IEEE Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics San Antonio, Texas, USA
  18. Sharma, R., Nesic, D and Manzie, C., 2009,'A reduced order model of a turbocharged spark ignition (SI) engine', SAE World Congress 2009, paper number 2009-01-0684
  19. Watson, H.C., Mehrani, P. and Brear, M.J., 2009,'The always lean burn spark ignition (ALBSI) engine – its performance and emissions', SAE World Congress 2009, paper number 2009-01-0932
  20. Toulson, E., Watson, H.C. and Attard, W., 2009,'Gas assisted jet ignition of ultra-lean LPG in a spark ignition engine', SAE World Congress 2009, paper number 2009-01-0506
  21. Utley, T.D., Brewster, S.C., Tilmouth, A., Jin, S.H. and Brear, M.J., 2008,'Unassisted low temperature starting of a pure ethanol fuelled direct fuelled engine', to be presented at the 2008 SAE Brazil Congress, Sao Paolo, SAE paper no. 2008-36-0270
  22. Boretti, A.A., Will, F., Watson, H.C., Brear, M.J., Dingli, R., Voice, G., 2008,'Comparison of static and dynamic engine models on the transient performance of a passenger vehicle powertrain', FISITA paper no. F2008-12-287, presented at the FISITA World Automotive Conference, 2008
  23. Kim, T., Manzie, C. and Watson, H., 2008,'Fuel Economy Benefits of Look-ahead Capability in a Mild Hybrid Configuration', in 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, South Korea
  24. Boretti, A.A., Lodi, F., Watson, H.C., Brear, M.J., Dingli, R., Jin, S.H., Voice, G. and Will, F., 2008,'Experimental and numerical analysis of engine gas exchange, combustion and heat transfer during warmup', SAE paper no. 2008-01-1653, presented at the 2008 Fuels and Lubricants congress
  25. Boretti, A.A., Dingli, R., Watson, H.C., Brear, M.J., Voice, G., 2008,'Development of a variable geometry turbocharged, throttleless, jet ignited, hydrogen fuelled i.c. engine', presented at the World Hydrogen Energy Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 15-19 June 2008
  26. Boretti, A.A., Brear, M.J. and Watson, H.C., 2007,'Experimental and numerical study of a hydrogen fuelled I.C. engine fitted with the hydrogen assisted jet ignition system', presented at the 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Crown Plaza, Gold Coast, Australia, 2-7 December 2007
  27. Boretti, A. A., Jin. S.H., Zakis, G., Brear, M.J., Watson, H.C., Carlisle, H. and Bryce, W., 2007,'Experimental and numerical study of an air assisted fuel injector for a D.I.S.I engine', SAE World Congress 2007, paper number 2007-01-1415
  28. Pham Xuan Phuong, Harry C. Watson, 2007,'Why liquid phase LPG port injection has superior power and efficiency to gas port injection' SAE paper 2007-01-3552
  29. Pouria Mehrani, Harry C. Watson, 2007,'Modeling the effect of mixture composition on cyclic variability', SAE paper 2007-01-0672
  30. Peter C. Stryker, Harry C. Watson , Maciej Kubicki, John F. Williams, 2007,'Spatial and temporal temperature distributions in a spark ignition engine piston at WOT', SAE paper 2007-01-1436
  31. Elisa Toulson, William Attard, Harry Watson, 2007,'The effects of hot and cool EGR with hydrogen assisted jet ignition', SAE paper 2007-01-3627
  32. Keynejad, F. and Manzie, C., 2006,'Optimization of cold start automotive fuel economy using a spark timing strategy', in IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, USA
 --- photo of highway from above