Design and Simulation of Four-Stroke Engines

Provides assistance with the actual mechanical design of an engine in which the gas and fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and combustion have been optimized so as to provide the required performance characteristics such as power, torque, fuel consumption, or noise emission. The seven chapters start with the fundamentals of engine design and development. Other topics include unsteady gas dynamics, intake ramming, exhaust system tuning, design of porting and valving of the cylinder head, and the measurement and analysis of the discharge coefficients of ports, valves, and ducting discontinuities. Blair was associated with Queen's U. in Belfast for 32 years. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)