A.Here's a pressure-volume diagram for a combustion engine. Although rough, it is an approximation of the so-called air-standard cycle. '' Point (a) is at atmospheric pressure, after which the air is ...

INVESTIGATIONS into the spontaneous ignition of hydrocarbon–air mixtures by adiabatic compression are being made. It has been found that there are at least two types of ignition possible with ...

A thermodynamic based cycle simulation which uses a thermal boundary layer, either, a fully mixed or layered adiabatic core, and a crevice combustion inefficiency routine has been used to explore the ...

IN an earlier communication 1, the occurrence of bright blue flames by rapid adiabatic compression of methane–air mixtures was reported. Similar observations have recently been reported for methane by ...