Internal Combustion Engines

A comprehensive treatment of the basic principles and applications of internal combustion engines, for use as an undergraduate or graduate engineering textbook or professional reference. Among the topics are current measurement and testing techniques involving computers, mathematical modeling, and electronic instrumentation; the impact on engine design of the competitive world market, as well as environmental and fuel-economy standards; and descriptions of fuels, carburation, injection, engine friction, performance parameters, and two-stroke engines. SI units are used throughout. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.