Tillman Hatcher – my internal
             combustion engine design
                experience is listed:

  •        Engine Design and Operating Parameters
  •        Engine Classifications
  •        Engine Operating Cycles
  •        Engine Components
  •        Spark-Ignition Engine Operation
  •        Compression-Ignition Engine Operation
  •        Stratified-Charge Engines

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•          Important Engine Characteristics
•          Geometrical Properties of Reciprocating Engines
•          Brake Torque and Power
•          Indicated Work per Cycle
•          Mechanical Efficiency
•          Road-Load Power
•          Specific Fuel Consumption and Efficiency
•          Air/Fuel and Fuel/Air Ratios
•          Volumetric Efficiency
•          Engine Specific Weight and Specific Volume
•          Correction Factors for Power and Volumetric Efficiency
•          Specific Emissions and Emissions Index
•          Relationship between Performance Parameters
•          Engine Design and Performance Data
•          Thermochemistry of Fuel-Air Mixtures

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•     Characterization of Flames
•     Ideal Gas Model
•     Composition of Air and Fuels
•     Combustion Stoichiometry
•     Energy and Enthalpy Balances
•     Heating Values
•     Adiabatic Combustion Processes
•     Combustion Efficiency of an Internal Combustion
Engine
•     Entropy
•     Maximum Work from an Internal Combustion
Engine and Efficiency
•     Chemical Equilibrium
•     Chemical Reaction Rates
•     Properties of Working Fluids
•     Unburned Mixture Composition
•     Gas Property Relationships

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•      Unburned Mixture Charts
•      Burned Mixture Charts
•      Relationship Between Unburned and Burned Mixture
Charts
•      Tables of Properties and Composition
•      Computer Routines for Property and Composition
Calculations
•      Unburned Mixtures
•      Burned Mixtures
•      Transport Properties
•      Exhaust Gas Composition
•      Species Concentration Data
•      Equivalence Ratio Determination from Exhaust Gas
Constituents
•      Effects of Fuel/Air Ratio Nonuniformity
•      Combustion Inefficiency
•      Thermodynamic Relations for Engine Processes
•      Cycle Analysis with Ideal Gas Working Fluid with
Constant volume, and Constant pressure Constant

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•          Constant-Volume Cycle
•          Limited and Constant Pressure Cycles
•          Cycle Comparison
•          Fuel-Air Cycle Analysis
•          SI Engine Cycle Simulation
•          CI Engine Cycle Simulation
•          Results of Cycle Calculations
•          Overexpanded Engine Cycles
•          Availability Analysis of Engine Processes
•          Availability Relationships
•          Entropy changes in Ideal Cycles
•          Available Analysis of Ideal Cycles
•          Effects of Equivalence ratio
•          Gas Exchange Processes
•          Comparison of Real Engine Cycles

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•          Inlet and Exhaust Processes
•          Volumetric Efficiency
•          Quasi-Static Effects
•          Combined Quasi-Static and Dynamic Effects
•          Variation with Speed, and Valve Area, Lift, and Timing
•          Flow through Valves
•          Poppet Valve Geometry and Timing
•          Flow Rate and Discharge Coefficients
•          Residual Gas Fraction
•          Exhaust Gas Flow Rate and Temperature Variation
•          Scavenging
•          Flow through Ports
•          Supercharging and Turbocharging
•          Methods of Power Boosting
•          Basic Relationships



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•    Compressors
•    Turbines
•    Wave-Compression Devices
•    SI Engine Fuel Metering and Manifold
Phenomena
•    Spark-Ignition Engine Mixture Requirements
•    Carburetors
•    Carburetor Fundamentals
•    Fuel-Injection Systems
•    Multipoint Injection
•    Single-point Injection
•    Feedback Systems
•    Flow Past Throttle Plate
•    Flow in Intake manifolds
•    Design Requirements
•    Air-Flow Phenomena
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•     Fuel-Flow Phenomena
•     Charge Motion within the Cylinder
•     Intake jet Flow
•     Mean Velocity and Turbulence Characteristics
•     Definitions
•     Application to Engine Velocity Data
•     Swirl
•     Swirl Measurement
•     Swirl Generation during Induction
•     Swirl Modification within the Cylinder
•     Squish
•     Prechamber Engine Flows
•     Crevice Flows and Blowby
•     Flows Generated by Piston-Cylinder Wall
Interaction
•     Combustion in Spark-Ignition Engines


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•       Essential Features of Process
•       Thermodynamic Analysis of SI Engine Combustion
•       Burned and Unburned Mixture States
•       Analysis of Cylinder Pressure Data
•       Combustion Process Characterization
•       Flame Structure and Speed
•       Experimental Observations
•       Flame Structure
•       Laminar Burning Speeds
•       Flame Propagation Relations
•       Cyclic Variations in Combustion, Partial Burning and
Misfire
•       Observations and Definitions
•       Causes of Cycle by Cycle and Cylinder to Cylinder
Variations
•       Partial Burning, Misfire, and Engine Stability
•       Spark ignition



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•     Ignition Fundamentals
•     Conventional Ignition Systems
•     Alternative Ignition Approaches
•     Abnormal Combustion: Knock and Surface Ignition
•     Description of Phenomena
•     Knock Fundamentals
•     Fuel Factors
•     Combustion in Compression-Ignition Engines
•     Types of Diesel Combustion Systems
•     Direct-Injection Systems
•     Indirect-Injection Systems
•     Comparison of Different combustion Systems
•     Phenomenological Model of Compression-Ignition
Engine Combustion
•     Photographic studies of engine combustion
•     Combustion of Direct-Injection, Multispray Systems



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•    Application of Model to Other combustion
Systems
•    Analysis of Cylinder Pressure Data
•    Combustion Efficiency
•    Direct-Injection Engines
•    Indirect-Injection Engines
•    Fuel Spray Behavior
•    Fuel Injection
•    Overall Spray Structure
•    Atomization
•    Spray Penetration
•    Droplet Size Distribution
•    Spray Evaporation
•    Ignition Delay
•    Definition and Discussion
•    Fuel Ignition Quality
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•    Autoignition Fundamentals
•    Physical Factors Affecting Delay
•    Effect of Fuel Properties
•    Correlations for Ignition Delay in Engines
•    Mixing-controlled Combustion
•    Background
•    Spray and Flame Structure
•    Fuel-Air Mixing and Burning Rates
•    Pollutant Formation and Control
•    Nature and Extent of Problem
•    Nitrogen Oxides
•    Kinetics of NO Formation
•    Formation of NO²
•    NO Formation in Spark-Ignition Engines
•    NOx Formation in Compression-Ignition
Engines
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•     Carbon Monoxide
•     Unburned Hydrocarbon Emissions
•     Background
•     Flame Quenching and Oxidation Fundamentals
•     HC Emissions from Spark-Ignition Engines
•     Hydrocarbons Emissions Mechanisms in Diesel
Engines
•     Particulate emissions
•     Spark-Ignition Engine Particulates
•     Characteristics of Diesel Particulates
•     Particulate Distribution within the Cylinder
•     Soot Formation Fundamentals
•     Soot Oxidation
•     Adsorption and Condensation
•     Exhaust Gas Treatment
•     Available Options


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•       Catalytic Converters
•       Thermal Reactors
•       Particulate Traps
•       Engine Heat Transfer
•       Modes of Heat Transfer
•       Conduction
•       Convection
•       Radiation
•       Overall Heat-Transfer Process
•       Heat Transfer and Engine Energy Balance
•       Convective Heat Transfer
•       Dimensional Analysis
•       Correlations for Time-Average Heat Flux
•       Correlations for Instantaneous Spatial Average
Coefficients
•       Correlations for Instantaneous Local Coefficients



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•          Intake and Exhaust System Heat Transfer
•          Radiative Heat Transfer
•          Radiation from Gases
•          Flame Radiation
•          Prediction Formulas
•          Measurements and Instantaneous Heat-Transfer
Rates
•          Measurement methods
•          Spark-Ignition Engine Measurements
•          Diesel Engine Measurements
•          Evaluation of Heat-Transfer Correlations
•          Boundary-Layer Behavior
•          Thermal Loading and Component Temperatures
•          Component Temperature Distributions
•          Effect of Engine Variables
•          Engine Friction and Lubrication


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•          Background
•          Definitions
•          Friction Fundamentals
•          Lubricated Friction
•          Turbulent Dissipation
•          Total Friction
•          Measurement methods
•          Engine Friction Data
•          SI Engines
•          Diesel Engines
•          Engine Friction Components
•          Motored Engine Breakdown Tests
•          Pumping Friction
•          Piston Friction
•          Piston Assembly Friction


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•     Crankshaft Bearing Friction
•     Valve Train Friction
•     Accessory Power Requirements
•     Lubrication
•     Lubrication Systems
•     Lubrication Requirements
•     Modeling Real Engine Flow and Combustion
Processes
•     Purpose and Classification of Models
•     Governing Equations for Open Thermodynamic
System
•     Conservation of Mass
•     Conservation of Energy
•     Intake and Exhaust Flow Models
•     Background
•     Quasi-Steady Flow Models
•     Filling and Emptying Methods

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•    Gas Dynamics Models
•    Thermodynamic-Based In-Cylinder Models
•    Background and Overall Model Structure
•    SI Engine Models
•    Direct-Injection Engine Models
•    Prechamber Engine Models
•    Multicylinder and Complex Engine System
Models
•    Second Law Analysis of Engine Systems Models
•    Fluid-Mechanic-Based Multidimensional Models
•    Basic Approach and Governing Equations
•    Turbulence Models
•    Numerical Methodology
•    Flow Field Predictions
•    Fuel Spray Modeling
•    Combustion Modeling

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•      Engine Operating Characteristics
•      Engine Performance Parameters
•      Indicated and Brake Power and MEP
•      Variables that Affect CI Engine Performance,
Efficiency, and Emissions
•      Spark timing
•      Mixture composition
•      Load and Speed
•      Compression Ratio
•      Design Objectives and Options
•      Factors that Control Combustion
•      Factors that Control Performance
•      Chamber Octane Requirement
•      Chamber Optimization Strategy
•      Fuel-Injection Parameters
•      Air-Swirl and Bowl-in-Piston Design

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•     Supercharged and Turbocharged Engine
Performance
•     Engine Performance Summary Data Collection
•     Transmission Angle
•     Limiting Positions of an Offset Slider Crank
Linkages
•     Displacement Analysis and Computer Graphics
•     Quick Return Mechanisms
•     Linkage Interference
•     Mechanisms for Specific Applications
•     Computer-Controlled Units
•     Real time data capture and pursing into a
graphical Excel File
•     Engine ECU programming
•     Exhaust After Treatment ECU programming
•     Cab ECU programming interface
•     Diagnostic software programming
•     Moving Coordinate Systems
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•     Relative Velocity
•     Application of Analytical Vector Methods to
Linkages
•     Graphical Analysis of Linkage Motion Utilizing
Relative Velocity
•     Velocity Imaging
•     Velocity-Time Studies
•     Graphical Analysis of Sliding Contact Linkages
•     Cams and Cam Followers
•     Disk Cam Design for Basic Followers Types
and Motions
•     Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, and Jerk
Analysis of Cam Follower Motion
•     Analytical Cam Design
•     Positive-Motion Cams
•     Cylinder Cams
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Internal Combustion Engine Design

  • 1.
    Tillman Hatcher –my internal combustion engine design experience is listed: • Engine Design and Operating Parameters • Engine Classifications • Engine Operating Cycles • Engine Components • Spark-Ignition Engine Operation • Compression-Ignition Engine Operation • Stratified-Charge Engines 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 1
  • 2.
    Important Engine Characteristics • Geometrical Properties of Reciprocating Engines • Brake Torque and Power • Indicated Work per Cycle • Mechanical Efficiency • Road-Load Power • Specific Fuel Consumption and Efficiency • Air/Fuel and Fuel/Air Ratios • Volumetric Efficiency • Engine Specific Weight and Specific Volume • Correction Factors for Power and Volumetric Efficiency • Specific Emissions and Emissions Index • Relationship between Performance Parameters • Engine Design and Performance Data • Thermochemistry of Fuel-Air Mixtures 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 2
  • 3.
    Characterization of Flames • Ideal Gas Model • Composition of Air and Fuels • Combustion Stoichiometry • Energy and Enthalpy Balances • Heating Values • Adiabatic Combustion Processes • Combustion Efficiency of an Internal Combustion Engine • Entropy • Maximum Work from an Internal Combustion Engine and Efficiency • Chemical Equilibrium • Chemical Reaction Rates • Properties of Working Fluids • Unburned Mixture Composition • Gas Property Relationships 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 3
  • 4.
    Unburned Mixture Charts • Burned Mixture Charts • Relationship Between Unburned and Burned Mixture Charts • Tables of Properties and Composition • Computer Routines for Property and Composition Calculations • Unburned Mixtures • Burned Mixtures • Transport Properties • Exhaust Gas Composition • Species Concentration Data • Equivalence Ratio Determination from Exhaust Gas Constituents • Effects of Fuel/Air Ratio Nonuniformity • Combustion Inefficiency • Thermodynamic Relations for Engine Processes • Cycle Analysis with Ideal Gas Working Fluid with Constant volume, and Constant pressure Constant 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 4
  • 5.
    Constant-Volume Cycle • Limited and Constant Pressure Cycles • Cycle Comparison • Fuel-Air Cycle Analysis • SI Engine Cycle Simulation • CI Engine Cycle Simulation • Results of Cycle Calculations • Overexpanded Engine Cycles • Availability Analysis of Engine Processes • Availability Relationships • Entropy changes in Ideal Cycles • Available Analysis of Ideal Cycles • Effects of Equivalence ratio • Gas Exchange Processes • Comparison of Real Engine Cycles 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 5
  • 6.
    Inlet and Exhaust Processes • Volumetric Efficiency • Quasi-Static Effects • Combined Quasi-Static and Dynamic Effects • Variation with Speed, and Valve Area, Lift, and Timing • Flow through Valves • Poppet Valve Geometry and Timing • Flow Rate and Discharge Coefficients • Residual Gas Fraction • Exhaust Gas Flow Rate and Temperature Variation • Scavenging • Flow through Ports • Supercharging and Turbocharging • Methods of Power Boosting • Basic Relationships 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 6
  • 7.
    Compressors • Turbines • Wave-Compression Devices • SI Engine Fuel Metering and Manifold Phenomena • Spark-Ignition Engine Mixture Requirements • Carburetors • Carburetor Fundamentals • Fuel-Injection Systems • Multipoint Injection • Single-point Injection • Feedback Systems • Flow Past Throttle Plate • Flow in Intake manifolds • Design Requirements • Air-Flow Phenomena 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 7
  • 8.
    Fuel-Flow Phenomena • Charge Motion within the Cylinder • Intake jet Flow • Mean Velocity and Turbulence Characteristics • Definitions • Application to Engine Velocity Data • Swirl • Swirl Measurement • Swirl Generation during Induction • Swirl Modification within the Cylinder • Squish • Prechamber Engine Flows • Crevice Flows and Blowby • Flows Generated by Piston-Cylinder Wall Interaction • Combustion in Spark-Ignition Engines 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 8
  • 9.
    Essential Features of Process • Thermodynamic Analysis of SI Engine Combustion • Burned and Unburned Mixture States • Analysis of Cylinder Pressure Data • Combustion Process Characterization • Flame Structure and Speed • Experimental Observations • Flame Structure • Laminar Burning Speeds • Flame Propagation Relations • Cyclic Variations in Combustion, Partial Burning and Misfire • Observations and Definitions • Causes of Cycle by Cycle and Cylinder to Cylinder Variations • Partial Burning, Misfire, and Engine Stability • Spark ignition 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 9
  • 10.
    Ignition Fundamentals • Conventional Ignition Systems • Alternative Ignition Approaches • Abnormal Combustion: Knock and Surface Ignition • Description of Phenomena • Knock Fundamentals • Fuel Factors • Combustion in Compression-Ignition Engines • Types of Diesel Combustion Systems • Direct-Injection Systems • Indirect-Injection Systems • Comparison of Different combustion Systems • Phenomenological Model of Compression-Ignition Engine Combustion • Photographic studies of engine combustion • Combustion of Direct-Injection, Multispray Systems 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 10
  • 11.
    Application of Model to Other combustion Systems • Analysis of Cylinder Pressure Data • Combustion Efficiency • Direct-Injection Engines • Indirect-Injection Engines • Fuel Spray Behavior • Fuel Injection • Overall Spray Structure • Atomization • Spray Penetration • Droplet Size Distribution • Spray Evaporation • Ignition Delay • Definition and Discussion • Fuel Ignition Quality 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 11
  • 12.
    Autoignition Fundamentals • Physical Factors Affecting Delay • Effect of Fuel Properties • Correlations for Ignition Delay in Engines • Mixing-controlled Combustion • Background • Spray and Flame Structure • Fuel-Air Mixing and Burning Rates • Pollutant Formation and Control • Nature and Extent of Problem • Nitrogen Oxides • Kinetics of NO Formation • Formation of NO² • NO Formation in Spark-Ignition Engines • NOx Formation in Compression-Ignition Engines 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 12
  • 13.
    Carbon Monoxide • Unburned Hydrocarbon Emissions • Background • Flame Quenching and Oxidation Fundamentals • HC Emissions from Spark-Ignition Engines • Hydrocarbons Emissions Mechanisms in Diesel Engines • Particulate emissions • Spark-Ignition Engine Particulates • Characteristics of Diesel Particulates • Particulate Distribution within the Cylinder • Soot Formation Fundamentals • Soot Oxidation • Adsorption and Condensation • Exhaust Gas Treatment • Available Options 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 13
  • 14.
    Catalytic Converters • Thermal Reactors • Particulate Traps • Engine Heat Transfer • Modes of Heat Transfer • Conduction • Convection • Radiation • Overall Heat-Transfer Process • Heat Transfer and Engine Energy Balance • Convective Heat Transfer • Dimensional Analysis • Correlations for Time-Average Heat Flux • Correlations for Instantaneous Spatial Average Coefficients • Correlations for Instantaneous Local Coefficients 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 14
  • 15.
    Intake and Exhaust System Heat Transfer • Radiative Heat Transfer • Radiation from Gases • Flame Radiation • Prediction Formulas • Measurements and Instantaneous Heat-Transfer Rates • Measurement methods • Spark-Ignition Engine Measurements • Diesel Engine Measurements • Evaluation of Heat-Transfer Correlations • Boundary-Layer Behavior • Thermal Loading and Component Temperatures • Component Temperature Distributions • Effect of Engine Variables • Engine Friction and Lubrication 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 15
  • 16.
    Background • Definitions • Friction Fundamentals • Lubricated Friction • Turbulent Dissipation • Total Friction • Measurement methods • Engine Friction Data • SI Engines • Diesel Engines • Engine Friction Components • Motored Engine Breakdown Tests • Pumping Friction • Piston Friction • Piston Assembly Friction 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 16
  • 17.
    Crankshaft Bearing Friction • Valve Train Friction • Accessory Power Requirements • Lubrication • Lubrication Systems • Lubrication Requirements • Modeling Real Engine Flow and Combustion Processes • Purpose and Classification of Models • Governing Equations for Open Thermodynamic System • Conservation of Mass • Conservation of Energy • Intake and Exhaust Flow Models • Background • Quasi-Steady Flow Models • Filling and Emptying Methods 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 17
  • 18.
    Gas Dynamics Models • Thermodynamic-Based In-Cylinder Models • Background and Overall Model Structure • SI Engine Models • Direct-Injection Engine Models • Prechamber Engine Models • Multicylinder and Complex Engine System Models • Second Law Analysis of Engine Systems Models • Fluid-Mechanic-Based Multidimensional Models • Basic Approach and Governing Equations • Turbulence Models • Numerical Methodology • Flow Field Predictions • Fuel Spray Modeling • Combustion Modeling 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 18
  • 19.
    Engine Operating Characteristics • Engine Performance Parameters • Indicated and Brake Power and MEP • Variables that Affect CI Engine Performance, Efficiency, and Emissions • Spark timing • Mixture composition • Load and Speed • Compression Ratio • Design Objectives and Options • Factors that Control Combustion • Factors that Control Performance • Chamber Octane Requirement • Chamber Optimization Strategy • Fuel-Injection Parameters • Air-Swirl and Bowl-in-Piston Design 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 19
  • 20.
    Supercharged and Turbocharged Engine Performance • Engine Performance Summary Data Collection • Transmission Angle • Limiting Positions of an Offset Slider Crank Linkages • Displacement Analysis and Computer Graphics • Quick Return Mechanisms • Linkage Interference • Mechanisms for Specific Applications • Computer-Controlled Units • Real time data capture and pursing into a graphical Excel File • Engine ECU programming • Exhaust After Treatment ECU programming • Cab ECU programming interface • Diagnostic software programming • Moving Coordinate Systems 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 20
  • 21.
    Relative Velocity • Application of Analytical Vector Methods to Linkages • Graphical Analysis of Linkage Motion Utilizing Relative Velocity • Velocity Imaging • Velocity-Time Studies • Graphical Analysis of Sliding Contact Linkages • Cams and Cam Followers • Disk Cam Design for Basic Followers Types and Motions • Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, and Jerk Analysis of Cam Follower Motion • Analytical Cam Design • Positive-Motion Cams • Cylinder Cams 4/3/2012 Tillman Hatcher 21