A comprehensive study on the effect of cavitation on injection velocity in diesel nozzles

The authors thank different members of the CMT-Motores Termicos team of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia for their contribution to this work: to Jaime Gimeno, for his fruitful comments, and to Xandra Margot, Stavroula Patouna and Gabriela Bra-cho for their help in the CFD calculations. Also they thank the FPU program of the Ministerio de Educacion of Spain for granting the Ph.D. studies of Oscar A. de la Garza (grant AP2008-01913). Open-FOAM and Star-CD are registered trademarks of OpenCFD Ltd. and CD-Adapco, respectively.

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