André,
when you throw a drop of water on a hot baking sheet, you see that it does not wet the plate, but it makes a ball of water, with a contact surface reduced to the minimum, and even we see that when a little water evaporates, the ball jumps in the air, sometimes it divides, it takes a long time to evaporate. I think that this phenomenon happens when you send the jet of water on the billet.
In water doping, if the T ° of the gases drops by 12 ° with so little water, I suppose that the water must pass into vapor. But in the compression phase, if it recondensed it would return energy, which I don't think because it would increase the engine brake.
On the other hand, the T ° and the pressure after explosion will be a little lower because of the specific heat (mass) of the water, but these T ° and pressure would decrease less quickly. For Renault, it increases the pressure of the turbo.
In an atmo diesel, the drop in T ° increases the vacuum and therefore brings in more air. In the same turbo diesel, the pressure relief valve will open later.
all this already without the pantone ... pfff it's complicated all that