[EN] To comply with the very strict emissions regulation the automotive industry is succeeding in developing ever more efficient engines, and there is scope for more improvements. In this regard, some investigations have ...

[EN] The need to improve the thermal efficiency of gasoline engines used in hybrid vehicles, has led to explore new solutions for reducing engine heat losses. Hence, it is important for the car manufacturers to be able to ...

[EN] The stringent environmental constraints have led the industry to look for new technologies that improve the design of internal combustion engines (ICE), mainly focused on achieving higher thermal efficiency and reducing ...

[EN] The 3D Conjugate Heat transfer (CHT) calculation of the heat transfer from the gas to the walls of a combustion chamber requires very fine meshing, particularly so when the walls are coated with a very thin insulation ...

[EN] New technologies are required to improve engine thermal efficiency. For this it is necessary to use all the tools available nowadays, in particular computational tools, which allow testing the viability of different ...