I'm looking at different topics for my masters thesis and one of them that has a lot of potential is a heat transfer model for a piston in an internal combustion engine. Apparently the auto industry has never directly addressed this problem and use a trial and error method when it comes to maximum piston surface temps. Because of this I'm having a hard time finding any info about it. Anyone know a good place to look, something I could access from my library preferably.
stewartcs
Sep26-08, 03:22 PM
I'm looking at different topics for my masters thesis and one of them that has a lot of potential is a heat transfer model for a piston in an internal combustion engine. Apparently the auto industry has never directly addressed this problem and use a trial and error method when it comes to maximum piston surface temps. Because of this I'm having a hard time finding any info about it. Anyone know a good place to look, something I could access from my library preferably.
I'd try some online Journals. They should be accessible from your university's library.
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brewnog
Sep26-08, 06:44 PM
There are certainly models in use. Sounds like a good project idea though. Suggest you do some reading, particularly in the SAE and IMechE proceedings.
Topher925
Sep26-08, 08:04 PM
I've looked through all the online journals I have access to the ASME website and the only publishing I can find are in french or german. There seems to be some info on piston rings but not the pistons themselves. The closest thing I could find in english were papers that only had experimental results but nothing that including any type of modeling.