Research > Professor Harry Watson

current grants & projects

ARC Discovery: “Engine Idle Stability”

ARC Linkage: with Holden and Orbital Engine Company on fuel sprays

ARC Linkage: with Ford Motor Company on engine warm up strategies

research contracts/consultancies with:

Ford Motor Company: “LPG cold starting”

BP Australia: “Application of LPG to heavy duty engines”

DPIE: “Engine development for exterminating pests”

Hyder Consulting: “Emissions from vehicles in tunnels and their approaches”

CSIRO: “Vehicle life cycle analysis”

Bishop Innovation: “Combustion with the Bishop Rotary Valve”

FCAI: “Energy and emission effects of 10 ppm sulfur in petrol”

postgraduate students

W Attard, PhD
"An optimal FSAE powerplant”

P Baker, PhD
"Study of LPG as an automotive fuel: a comparison of current technology with multipoint liquid and gaseous phase injection”

PJA Chow, MEngSc
"Combustion in a rotary valve spark ignition engine”

Y Fang, PhD
"Application of compressed natural gas and HAJI to a converted diesel engine”

MP Gledhill, MEngSc
"Knock in a commercial engine with HAJI ignition”

MA Khan, MEngSc
"Comparative performance of converted LPG engines”

F Lodi, MEngSc
"Improving the warm-up of a large spark-ignition engine”

XU Pham, MEngSc
"Comaparison of liquid and gaseous phase LPG injection in a reference engine”

G Zakis, PhD
"Laser based combustion diagnostics in a direct injection gasoline engine”

websites & links

Energy Transport Group

publications: 2006 papers accepted for publication

SAE World Congress, Detroit, April
Harry C.Watson, Asanga Ratnawera and Saman Halgamuge. Optimisation of all SI engine combustion control and related events for efficiency. Paper 06P-545

Pouria Mehrani and Harry C Watson. Joint Efficiency and NOx Optimisation using a PSO algorithm. Paper O6P-11

William Attard and Harry C Watson. Development of a 430cc constant power engine for FSAE competition. Paper O6P-546

Mohammed Ali Khan, Gordon Liew, Paul Baker, Harry C Watson and Damian Johnston. Application of lean burn and TBI to low NOx high efficiency LPG engine. Paper O6P-375.

World Hydrogen Energy Conference, Lyons, June
Ferenc Hamori and Harry C Watson. Hydrogen assisted jet ignition applied to a homogenous charge, supercharged hydrogen engine.

undergraduate teaching