Full-bore crank-angle resolved imaging of combustion in a four-stroke gasoline direct injection engine

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 221, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1305-1320

  Ma, H ^a   Marshall, S ^a   Stevens, R ^a   Stone, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flame front tracking; Full bore imaging; Soot pyrometry

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; GASOLINE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; PISTONS; PYROMETRY; SOOT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLAME FRONT TRACKING; FULL BORE IMAGING; GASOLINE DIRECT INJECTION ENGINES; SOOT PYROMETRY;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 37549021170     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544070JAUTO542     Document Type: Article

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