Everything about Reciprocating engine
Heat engine using reciprocating pistons
A reciprocating engine, more often known as a piston engine, is a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert high temperature and high pressure into a rotating motion. This article describes the common features of all types. The main types are: the internal combustion engine, used extensively in motor vehicles; the steam engine, the mainstay of the Industrial Revolution; and the Stirling engine for niche applications. Internal combustion engines are further classified in two ways: either a spark-ignition (SI) engine, where the spark plug initiates the combustion; or a compression-ignition (CI) engine, where the air within the cylinder is highly compressed, thus heating it, so that the heated air ignites fuel that is injected, in a diesel engine, or in earlier types, a hot bulb engine. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Reciprocating engineA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Comparison of combustion, emission and abnormal combustion of hydrogen-fueled Wankel rotary engine and reciprocating piston engineInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Boundary element methods for engineers and scientistsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Heat Transfer in the Cylinders of Reciprocating Internal Combustion EnginesCited 706 times
- Go sideways: Four-stroke engineA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Internal combustion engineA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Synonym of piston engine.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Heat Transfer in the Cylinders of Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines
k-epsilon equation for compressible reciprocating engine flows
Reciprocating heat-engine cycles
Reciprocating Joule-cycle engine for domestic CHP systems
Axisymmetric Flow in a Motored Reciprocating Engine
Thermodynamic design of a reciprocating Joule cycle engine
Measurements in a Motored Four-Stroke Reciprocating Model Engine
Simulation and testing of a solar reciprocating steam engine
🆕 Influential since 2022
Comparison of combustion, emission and abnormal combustion of hydrogen-fueled Wankel rotary engine and reciprocating piston engine
Multi-objective optimization for reciprocating expansion engine used in compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems
Fracture-based transient thermo-mechanical analysis of reciprocating engine thermal barrier coatings
Modeling nitrogen species from ammonia reciprocating engine combustion in temperature-equivalence ratio space
Numerical investigation and Pareto optimization on performance, emission and in-cylinder reforming characteristics for two cylinder reciprocating engine with COx free fuel
📚 Books worth reading
Boundary element methods for engineers and scientistsLothar Gaul, Martin Kögl · 2003
PumpingFrank R. Spellman · 2001- 📕EHD analysis of and experiments on pumping Leningrader sealsM. Eusepi · 1986
Electromagnetic Waveguides and Transmission Lines (Oxford Engineering Science Series)Frank Olyslager · 1999
Reciprocity, spatial mapping, and time reversal in electromagneticsC. Altman · 2011
R-4360White, Graham · 2006
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