Fundamentals and Design of Internal Combustion Engines
Language: English
Published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, 2026
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- Title
- Fundamentals and Design of Internal Combustion Engines
- Author
- Kowalski, Eldon
- Publisher
- Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PAP
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798193925729
- Item weight
- 1,125 grams
UNDERSTAND THE ENGINE. MASTER THE CALCULATIONS. THINK LIKE A DESIGNER.
Internal combustion engines are more than pistons, fuel, and ignition. They are integrated systems shaped by thermodynamics, combustion chemistry, gas exchange, heat transfer, mechanics, materials, emissions, and electronic control. To understand them properly, you need to see how each system affects performance, efficiency, durability, and emissions.This textbook gives you that complete engineering picture.
Built for students, engineers, technicians, educators, and serious automotive learners, this book moves from first principles to real design decisions with clear explanations and structured problem solving. Instead of asking you to memorize equations, it shows what they mean, when to use them, and how they connect to actual engine behavior.
WHAT YOU WILL GAIN WHEN YOU GET THIS BOOK
- Understand engine classifications, architecture, performance metrics, indicated work, brake power, mean effective pressure, fuel consumption, and thermal efficiency.
- Master piston kinematics, inertia forces, crankshaft torque, engine balance, firing order, torsional effects, and flywheel sizing.
- Analyze Otto, Diesel, Dual, Miller, and Atkinson cycles—and understand why real engines depart from ideal predictions.
- Solve fuel-air, stoichiometric, equivalence-ratio, combustion-product, heating-value, and flame-temperature problems.
- Compare gasoline, diesel, alcohols, gaseous fuels, biodiesel, renewable diesel, and synthetic fuels using key fuel properties.
- Understand volumetric efficiency, valve timing, scavenging, turbocharging, supercharging, intercooling, compressor maps, and air-path matching.
- Explore port and direct injection, injector sizing, spray breakup, evaporation, nozzle design, high-pressure systems, and mixture preparation.
- Understand swirl, tumble, squish, turbulence, spark-ignition combustion, knock, cyclic variability, diesel ignition delay, and heat-release analysis.
- Learn how NOx, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, soot, and particulate matter form—and how catalysts, filters, SCR, and aftertreatment systems control them.
- Evaluate heat transfer, cooling, lubrication, friction, wear, fatigue, materials, pistons, connecting rods, crankshafts, and structural sizing.
- Understand engine management, calibration, dynamometer testing, measurement uncertainty, validation, hardware-in-the-loop, and electrified-powertrain integration.
TURN THEORY INTO ENGINEERING SKILL
Every major chapter includes worked examples, practice problems, and an answer key, helping you move from reading concepts to solving engineering problems yourself. Supporting appendices provide useful data on combustion gases, fuel properties, constants, conversions, empirical correlations, symbols, and terminology.
SEE THE ENGINE AS ONE CONNECTED SYSTEM
Engine design is always a trade-off. Higher compression can improve efficiency but increase knock tendency. Boost can increase torque while raising thermal and mechanical loading. Injection strategy affects combustion, emissions, noise, and fuel economy. After treatment reduces pollutants but adds system constraints.
This book shows you how those decisions connect.
Whether you are preparing for exams, strengthening your engineering foundation, solving design problems, teaching engine technology, or building professional knowledge, FUNDAMENTALS AND DESIGN OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES gives you the analytical framework to understand how engines work, why they behave the way they do, and how engineers improve them.
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