Serrano, J.R.; Arnau Martínez, Francisco José; García-Cuevas González, Luis Miguel; Samala, Vishnu; Smith, Les(Elsevier, 2019-08)
[EN] In an internal combustion engine, twin entry turbine operates under different unequal admission conditions by feeding the turbine with a dissimilar amount of flow in each entry for a majority of the time. Despite of ...
[EN] The behavior of small turbochargers is deeply affected by heat transfer phenomena. The external heat losses of these machines are studied and a simplified model that takes into account both radiation and convective ...
Payri, Raul; De La Morena, Joaquín; Pagano, Vincenzo; Hussain, Ali; Sammut, Gilbert; Smith, Les(SAGE Publications, 2019-04)
[EN] In this article, an investigation of a solenoid common-rail injector has been carried out to understand the hydraulic interactions between close-coupled injection events. For this purpose, a one-dimensional model of ...
Serrano Cruz, José Ramón; Olmeda González, Pablo Cesar; Arnau Martínez, Francisco José; Dombrovsky, Artem; Smith, Les(Elsevier, 2015-06-15)
The exhaust energy can represent up to 40% of the fuel chemical energy in turbocharged internal
combustion engines. In order to calculate properly the available energy of the exhaust gases, a critical
parameter is the ...