Engine building is technically a science, but the truth is that there is just as much art as there is science. Where most ...

Ferrari has patented an oval-piston engine design, featuring pistons with a pill-shaped profile Different than Honda's 1980s oval-piston GP bike engines, which had their long sides parallel to the ...

The bearing cap on one rod is formed by the base of the opposite piston’s rod, a flexible joint allowing the second rod to swivel as required to move up and down the cylinder bore. Motorcycle ...

A fire piston works on the same principle as a diesel engine - compression ignition. I'm a big fan of this kind of thermodynamics as it matches well to the theory and is very repeatable.

The Piston Simulation function models the circular motion of a piston within a cylinder. It involves a chain of nonlinear functions. The response C is cycle time (the time it takes to complete one ...