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Liquid piston engines
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Details
- Creator
- Aman Gupta, Shubham Sharma, and Sunny Narayan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley ; Beverly, MA, USA : Scrivener Publishing LLC, [2017]
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- ISBNs
- 1119322952, 9781119323273, 1119323282, 1119323231, 9781119322955, 1119323274, 9781119323280, 9781119323235
- OCLC
- ocn989519879
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abstract -- List of Symbols -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Types of Stirling Engines -- 1.3 Stirling Engine Designs -- 1.4 Free-Piston Stirling Engines -- 1.5 Gamma Type Engine -- References and Bibliography -- 2 Liquid Piston Engines -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Objectives -- 2.3 Brief Overview of Pumps and Heat Engines -- 2.4 Heat Engine -- 2.5 Clever Pumps -- 2.6 History and Development of Stirling Engines -- 2.7 Operation of a Stirling Engine -- 2.8 Working Gas -- 2.9 Pros and Cons of Stirling Engine -- 2.10 Low Temperature Difference Stirling Engine -- 2.11 Basic Principle of a Fluidyne -- 2.12 Detailed Working of a Fluidyne -- 2.13 Role of Evaporation -- 2.14 Regenerator -- 2.15 Pumping Setups -- 2.16 Tuning of Liquid Column -- 2.17 Motion Analysis -- 2.18 Losses -- 2.19 Factors Affecting Amplitude -- 2.20 Performance of Engine -- 2.21 Design -- 2.22 Assembly -- 2.23 Calculation -- 2.24 Experiments -- 2.25 Results -- 2.26 Comparison Within Existing Commercial Devices -- 2.27 Improvements -- 2.28 Future Scope -- 2.29 Conclusion -- 2.30 Numerical Analysis -- References and Bibliography -- 3 Customer Satisfaction Issues -- 3.1 Durability Issues -- 3.2 Testing of Engines -- 3.3 Design of Systems -- 3.4 Systems Durability -- References and Bibliography -- 4 Lubrication Dynamics -- 4.1 Background -- 4.2 Friction Features -- 4.3 Effects of Varying Speeds and Loads -- 4.4 Friction Reduction -- 4.5 Piston-Assembly Dynamics -- 4.6 Reynolds Equation for Lubrication Oil Pressure -- 4.7 Introduction -- 4.8 Background -- 4.9 Occurrence of Piston Slap Events -- 4.10 Literature Review -- 4.11 Piston Motion Simulation Using COMSOL -- 4.12 Force Analysis -- 4.13 Effects of Various Skirt Design Parameters -- 4.14 Numerical Model of Slapping Motion -- 4.15 Piston Side Thrust Force
- 4.16 Frictional Forces -- 4.17 Determination of System Mobility -- 4.18 Conclusion -- 5 NVH Features of Engines -- 5.1 Background -- 5.2 Acoustics Overview of Internal Combustion Engine -- 5.3 Imperial Formulation to Determine Noise Emitted from Engine -- 5.4 Engine Noise Sources -- 5.5 Noise Source Identification Techniques -- 5.6 Summary -- References and Bibliography -- 6 Diagnosis Methodology for Diesel Engines -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Power Spectral Density Function -- 6.3 Time Frequency Analysis -- 6.4 Wavelet Analysis -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References and Bibliography -- 7 Sources of Noise in Diesel Engines -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Combustion Noise -- 7.3 Piston Assembly Noise -- 7.4 Valve Train Noise -- 7.5 Gear Train Noise -- 7.6 Crank Train and Engine Block Vibrations -- 7.7 Aerodynamic Noise -- 7.8 Bearing Noise -- 7.9 Timing Belt and Chain Noise -- 7.10 Summary -- References and Bibliography -- 8 Combustion Based Noise -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Background of Combustion Process in Diesel Engines -- 8.3 Combustion Phase Analysis -- 8.4 Combustion Based Engine Noise -- 8.5 Factors Affecting Combustion Noise -- 8.6 In Cylinder Pressure Analysis -- 8.7 Effects of Heat Release Rate -- 8.8 Effects of Cyclic Variations -- 8.9 Resonance Phenomenon -- 8.10 In Cylinder Pressure Decomposition Method -- 8.11 Mathematical Model of Generation of Combustion Noise -- 8.12 Evaluation of Combustion Noise Methods -- 8.13 Summary -- References and Bibliography -- 9 Effects of Turbo Charging in S.I. Engines -- 9.1 Abstract -- 9.2 Fundamentals -- 9.3 Turbochargers -- 9.4 Turbocharging in Diesel Engines -- 9.5 Turbocharging of Gasoline Engines -- 9.6 Turbocharging -- 9.7 Components of Turbocharged SI Engines -- 9.8 Intercooler -- 9.9 Designing of Turbocharger -- 9.10 Operational Problems in Turbocharging of SI Engines
- 9.11 Methods to Reduce Knock in S.I Engines -- 9.12 Ignition Timing and Knock -- 9.13 Charge Air Cooling -- 9.14 Downsizing of SI Engines -- 9.15 Techniques Associated with Turbo Charging of SI Engines Boosting Systems -- 10 Emissions Control by Turbo Charged SI Engines -- 11 Scope of Turbo Charging in SI Engines -- 12 Summary -- 13 Conclusions and Future Work -- 13.1 Conclusions -- 13.2 Contributions -- 13.3 Future Recommendations -- References and Bibliography -- List of Important Terms -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- EULA