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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 789563, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/789563 Research Article CFD Prediction and Experimental Measurement of Blade Water Coverage in a Diesel Turbocharger Jun Yao1 and Yufeng Yao2 1 School of Engineering, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK 2 Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University, London SW15 3DW, UK Correspondence should be addressed to Yufeng Yao, y.yao@kingston.ac.uk Received 14 April 2012; Revised 3 July 2012; Accepted 19 July 2012 Academic Editor: S. Taib Copyright © 2012 J. Yao and Y. Yao. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A turbocharger unit for diesel engine is often equipped with a built-in online water washing system and its performance is not always satisfactory because of efficiency declination due to deposit accumulated on blade surfaces not being washed away. In this study, a systematic approach of using experimental measurements and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is adopted to analyse liquid/gas two-phase flow associated with a turbocharger water washing system, in order to understand the underlying flow physics. A medium-sized diesel engine turbocharger configuration is chosen for this purpose. Experiments are focussed on blade surface temperature measurements, while CFD modelling with a coupled Eulerian/Lagrangian method is used for capturing the complex gas/liquid two-phase flow behaviours inside the induction duct and the blade passage. It was found that numerical predictions are in a good agreement with experimental data in terms of temp