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The Effect of Excess Scavenge Air on the Pressure Drop in the Cylinder of a Two-Stroke Cycle Engine During Exhaust Blow down

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

R. S. Benson*
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool

Extract

The laws of reflection of pressure waves at temperature discontinuities are well known. Of particular interest is the effect of temperature discontinuities on the pressure conditions in the exhaust pipes and cylinders of two-stroke cycle engines, both models and running engines. Model experiments are usually performed at low temperatures with the cylinder release temperature and exhaust pipe temperatures of the same order; under these conditions the reverse type of temperature phenomenon occurs to that in running engines with excess scavenge air. In the case of a model during the exhaust blowdown the gas from the cylinder reaches the exhaust pipe with a greater density than that of the gas initially in the exhaust pipe.

Type
Technical Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1955

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