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WHAT WE DO

ængineering is a volunteers research team working in the combustion engines area. The mission of the ængineering Combustion Volunteers Research Team is to contribute to future developments in combustion engines through fundamental and applied research on the combustion chamber, engine parts and fuels. The team carries out R&D in about combustion engines design with 7 years of research experience in the field. ængineering team has the ability to use multiple software on R&D activities such as 0-D, 1-D and 3-D numerical modeling for combustion engines.  The aim of the team is to participate in combustion research and to educate new scientists in the field of combustion.  The team organizes training and project work for young researchers.

 

RESEARCH IMPACT
  • Engine design and efficiency improvements

  • Alternative fuels effects on engine performance

  • Internal combustion engine emissions reductions

  • Gas turbine

  • Spray and atomization

  • Rocket engines

  • Laser, plasma and corona ignition

  • Piston, piston rings and liner damages

  • New technology combustion engine development methods

  • In-cylinder combustion mechanisms analysis

  • Combustion chamber design and analysis

  • Internal combustion engine construction & manufacturing methods

  • Combustion modeling

 

TEAM LEADER
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Ahmet Alper YONTAR

Ahmet Alper YONTAR is dr. mechanical engineer and assoc. prof. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tarsus University. Ahmet Alper YONTAR graduated from Mechanical Engineering from Zonguldak Karaelmas (Bülent Ecevit) University with a B.Sc. degree in 2008. He completed his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Selçuk University in 2011 and his Ph.D. in Kırıkkale University Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2016. His industry experience includes a brief period at Yenmak Piston, Piston Ring & Liner Company from 2008-2011 at R&D Department. He worked at Kırıkkale University between 2011 and 2017 as a research assistant and assist. prof. positions and worked at Mersin University between February 2018 and May 2018 as an assist. prof. respectively. At the end of April 2018, he started to Tarsus University as an assistant professor. He has also researched on diesel engines, I.C. engines lubricants, soot/ash and advanced combustion engine technologies,  advanced combustion modeling, physics of turbulent combustion and laser ignition brief periods on Luxembourg in 2013, on MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory in 2015, ETH Zurich in 2016, NTUA in 2016, KTH & NORDITA in 2016, INFLPR in 2017-2018 and Aalto University in 2018 respectively. He was worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering between 2019-2020. 

His research activities include modeling and experimental diagnostics of combustion mechanisms in I.C. engines, laser ignition, plasma ignition, cool flame, LII, DIF, jet ignition, DDT, alternative fuels, multiple ignitions, diesel technologies, engine emissions, engine design and engine modeling.

ængineering Combustion Volunteers Research Team was founded in 2012 by

Ahmet Alper YONTAR.

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