On the future of combustion technogy

• Autorzy: Oppenheim A. K.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

In its application to closed system, exemplified prominently by automovite piston engines, combustion technology is the least developed of any in practice today. This leaves an appreciable leeway for improvement - a fact in drastic contrast the widely held belief that internal combustion engines should be abandoned as the major envirinmental menace of our times. The obvious remedy for this paradoxical state of affairs can be derived from the exploitation of the best that modern technology can offer in terms of micro-electronic control associated with MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems), whereby the iniection of fuel, its ignition, and mixing with air, are accomplished by turbulent jets. For this purpose the exothermic process of combustion has to be treated as a dynamic system - a task involving proper consideration of the fundamentals of aerodynamics, gasdynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer and chemical kinetics, with their effects appropriately expressed by modern methods of numerical analysis.

• Wydawca: Komitet Termodynamiki i Spalania PAN
• Czasopismo: Archivum Combustionis
• Rocznik: 1999
• Tom: Vol. 19 nr 1-4
• Strony: 3--13
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 36 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Oppenheim A. K.

• University of California, Berkeley, California, USA