An optimal control approach to minimizing entropy generation in an adiabatic internal combustion engine

Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 0410081-04100810

  Teh, Kwee Yan ^a   Edwards, Christopher F ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Combustion; Entropy generation; Expansion work; IC engines; Maximum principle; Optimal control; Pontryagin; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BANG-BANG (BB); BANG-BANG CONTROLS; COMBUSTION ENGINES; COMBUSTION KINETICS; COMBUSTION MECHANISMS; CONTROL INPUTS; ENGINE EFFICIENCIES; ENTROPY GENERATION (EG); ENTROPY MINIMIZATION; HOMOGENEOUS COMBUSTION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION; INTERNAL ENERGIES; LYAPUNOV; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MINIMUM ENTROPY; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OPTIMAL CONTROL; OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM (OCP); OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMALITY; PISTON ENGINES; PISTON MOTION; PISTON VELOCITY; PONTRYAGIN'S MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE (PMP); PRESSURE DIFFERENCES;

BANG BANG CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMBUSTION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ENGINES; ENTROPY; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; INTERSECTIONS; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; SMOKE; THERMOCHEMISTRY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

ENGINE PISTONS;

EID: 47749146521     PISSN: 00220434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2936864     Document Type: Article

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