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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
This dissertation has greatly benefited from the help, interest and support of many
people from many parts of the world at who I would like to extend my deepest
gratitude. Additional commendation goes to Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
for the financial support through the research grant SFRH/BD/32699/2006.
First and foremost I am grateful to Professor Marc Bellenoue (ENSMA), Professor
Nuno Afonso Moreira (UTAD) and Prof. Salvador Malheiro (UTAD) for their valuable
help and research guidance. I am also indebted to Professor Julien Sotton (ENSMA)
and Dr. Serguei Labouda (ENSMA) for guiding me to perform experimental work at the
laboratory; to Dr. Bastien Boust (ENSMA), Dr. Camile Strozzi (ENSMA) and Mr. Djamel
Karmed (ENSMA) for the assistance on numerical simulations.
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Furthermore, I am grateful to Professor Zuohua Huang, from Xi’an JiaoTong University,
China, and Dr. Xiaojun Gu, from Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, United Kingdom,
for the useful comments on laminar burning velocity calculations; to Professor Federico
Perini, from University of Modena, Italy, for providing experimental data on methane
engine; to Professor Sebastian Verhelst, from University of Gent, Belgium, for providing
experimental data on hydrogen engine.
My sympathy goes also to the ENSMA staff especially to Mrs. Jocelyne Bardeau for
her administrative support.
Finally, and most important, my thanks to my family and friends, who have continually
demonstrated support in this long journey.
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