This textbook offers a contemporary approach to the study of internal combustion engines, which remains a crucial and active field in engineering education and research. Its aim is to apply principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer to analyze internal combustion engines. The book intends to demonstrate the application of engineering sciences, especially the thermal sciences, and provide an in-depth understanding of internal combustion engines. The book also explains the necessary thermodynamics concepts in a way that students can understand, even those who have no experience with reacting gas mixtures. The book is designed for a one-semester course at the senior undergraduate level and is used for a single-term class at Colorado State University. The class meets for two lectures per week and a recitation or laboratory session once a week, for 15 weeks.
The third edition of this book is an improvement on the second edition. The main changes involve the use of the programming software MATLABⓇ for examples and the restructuring of chapters to give more importance to combustion. The updated content includes new topics such as heat and mass loss in finite heat release models, thermodynamic properties of reacting mixtures, two-zone burn models for homogeneous mixtures, exhaust blowdown modeling, diesel fuel injection, NO concentration using finite rate chemistry, homogeneous charge compression ignition, and alternative fuels. Additionally, there are more homework problems that cover a wider range of topics.
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