Experimental validation of an alternative method to predict high and low-temperature ignition delays under transient thermodynamic conditions for PRF mixtures using a Rapid Compression-Expansion Machine

The authors would like to thank different members of the CMT-Motores Termicos team of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia for their contribution to this work. The authors would also like to thank the Spanish Ministry of Education for financing the PhD. Studies of Dario Lopez-Pintor (Grant FPU13/02329). This work was partly funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, project TRA2015-67136-R.

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