A better mousetrap? Even now, as electrification seems poised to end the internal combustion engine’s long run as the transportation motivator of choice, enterprising tinkerers continue to propose ...
It's important to keep in mind that the combustion process occurs in a very brief period of time. Due to a variety of conditions that include mixture density, homogeneity, temperature, fuel ...
Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. company, announced today that America’s only staged combustion liquid rocket booster engine currently in development achieved an important milestone July 12 at NASA’s Stennis ...
The realm of pistons and internal combustion has been on an evolutionary arms race since the very first power stroke of the Big Bang that started the reciprocating piston revolution. Stronger, faster, ...
Rotary engines have an aura of cool. In games of Top Trumps, the V12 might have been king, but a rotary was a joker, a wild card. A lack of mainstream success no doubt contributes; there are reasons ...
Internal combustion engines are literally the engines of the modern world. Without the invention of these genius mechanical creations, our world would be markedly different and the pace of life would ...
Some Enginology columns ago, we spoke about the functionality and benefits derived from in-cylinder pressure measurement in increments of crankshaft angles. In that discussion, we noted several useful ...