Welcome!
Welcome to the Bittle Research Group. A brief highlight of on-going projects can be found below. Please visit the other pages to learn a more about the team, on-going research activities, recent news, and find contact information.
All of this exciting work is made possible by a great group of graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and staff at UA, and collaborators around the world.
– Josh Bittle
Highlights of Research Activities
Principle Investigator
Joshua Bittle
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Associate Director,
Center for Advanced
Vehicle Technologies
Research Areas:
Optical studies of Fuel Spray Mixing and Combustion (Fundamental)
- Funded by: Dept. Of Energy and Dept. of Defense
- Understanding fuel-air mixing and effects of fuel composition on sooting behavior
- Novel fuel injection strategies
Real-time Control and Optimization of Diesel Engines (Applied)
- Funded by Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Defense, Cummins Inc.
- Efficiency Improvements with prototype hardware
- Emissions reduction with advanced control strategies
Connected and Automated Vehicle Applications (Systems Level)
- Funded by Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Transportation
- Infrastructure based detection and control optimization of signals
- Real-world testbed in Tuscaloosa
- Probe vehicles Mercedes GLE and Nissan Leaf
Optical Chambers to study mixing and reacting fuel sprays
Heavy-duty Transient Engine Test Cell and Operating Points
Connected Infrastructure on US82 test corridor and Probe Vehicles
