DOI: 10.1115/1.4059279 ISSN: 0097-6822
Combustion in High-Speed Oil Engines
William F. JoachimAbstract
The paper discusses some of the more important physical and chemical aspects of the combustion problems of the high-speed Diesel engine of today from the oil-spray and oil-mixture standpoints. Of considerable importance also are other aspects of the general combustion problem from the standpoints of detail fuel-injection methods, rates of injection, processes of atomization, spray-particle mass distribution, and cylinder design and combustion-air movement. While a near approach to the high thermal efficiencies indicated by theory may not be at once completely reached in high-speed oil engines, rapid advances in the art of combustion control are being made.