Everything about Free-piston engine

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Free-piston engineA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A review of free piston engine control literature—Taxonomy and techniquesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Transient and steady-state tests of the space power research engine with resistive and motor loadsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A review of free-piston engine history and applicationsCited 415 times
5. Go sideways: Free-piston linear generatorA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Internal combustion engineA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A review of free-piston engine history and applications

  R. Mikalsen, A.P. Roskilly · 2007 · Applied Thermal Engineering · 415 citations

• The control of a free-piston engine generator. Part 2: Engine dynamics and piston motion control

  R. Mikalsen, A.P. Roskilly · 2010 · Applied Energy · 152 citations

• Predictive piston motion control in a free-piston internal combustion engine

  R. Mikalsen, E. Jones, A.P. Roskilly · 2010 · Applied Energy · 136 citations

• Motion characteristic of a free piston linear engine

  Jin Xiao, Qingfeng Li, Zhen Huang · 2010 · Applied Energy · 108 citations

• Modeling of piston trajectory-based HCCI combustion enabled by a free piston engine

  Chen Zhang, Ke Li, Zongxuan Sun · 2015 · Applied Energy · 75 citations

• Precise piston trajectory control for a free piston engine

  Ke Li, Chen Zhang, Zongxuan Sun · 2015 · Control Engineering Practice · 66 citations

• Optimization of a dual free piston Stirling engine

  J. Boucher, F. Lanzetta, P. Nika · 2007 · Applied Thermal Engineering · 64 citations

• Active Motion Control of a Hydraulic Free Piston Engine

  Ke Li, Ali Sadighi, Zongxuan Sun · 2014 · IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics · 52 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A review of free piston engine control literature—Taxonomy and techniques

  Ahmed T. Raheem, A. Rashid A. Aziz, Saiful A. Zulkifli · 2022 · Alexandria Engineering Journal · 53 citations

• Comparison of an opposed-piston free-piston engine using single and dual channel uniflow scavenging

  Shuangshuang Liu, Zhaoping Xu, Leiming Chen · 2022 · Applied Thermal Engineering · 35 citations

• A thermally-coupled cascade free-piston Stirling engine-based cogeneration system

  Yuanhang Chen, Guoyao Yu, Ying Ma · 2024 · Applied Thermal Engineering · 31 citations

• Dynamic modeling of a free-piston engine based on combustion parameters prediction

  Leiming Chen, Zhaoping Xu, Shuangshuang Liu · 2022 · Energy · 27 citations

• Performance prediction and parameters optimization of an opposed-piston free piston engine generator using response surface methodology

  Fengyuan Yang, Huihua Feng, Limin Wu · 2023 · Energy Conversion and Management · 25 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Transient and steady-state tests of the space power research engine with resistive and motor loadsJeffrey Rauch · 1995
• 📕1988 overview of free-piston Stirling technology for space power at the NASA Lewis Research CenterJack G. Slaby · 1988
• 📕Free-piston stirling engine demonstrator test planMechanical Technology Incorporated. · 1979
• 📕Testing of a diesel-powered impact cutting head for hard-rock miningP. D. Kovscek · 1991
• 📕1050 K Stirling space engine designL. Barry Penswick · 1988
• 📕Stirling technology development at NASA GRCLanny G. Thieme · 2001
• 📕Freikolben-VerbrennungskraftmaschinenEgon Cernea · 1962
• 📕Progress toward the evolution of a Stirling space engineDonald L. Alger · 1988

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