Cavitation visualisation in true-scale optical Diesel injectors

High speed imaging of cavitation inside transparent nozzle tips will be performed safely at pressures up to 2,000bar, although higher ones will be tested. The clean tips will be manufactured from sapphire for withstanding high pressures while 3-D printing will be utilised for manufacturing enlarged nozzle replicas that will match geometries of aged injectors (both from field tests and from accelerated nozzle coking tests).