Big end bearing losses with thermal cavitation flow under cylinder deactivation

Tribology Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Shahmohamadi, H ^a   Rahmani, R ^a   Rahnejat, H ^a   Garner, C P ^a   Dowson, D ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Cylinder deactivation; Internal combustion engines; Journal bearings; Mixed thermohydrodynamics; Navier Stokes

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION; ENGINE CYLINDERS; ENGINES; FUEL CONSUMPTION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; JOURNAL BEARINGS;

BRAKE SPECIFIC FUEL CONSUMPTION; CAVITATION ALGORITHMS; CYLINDER DEACTIVATION (CDA); NAVIER STOKES; OUTLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; THERMO-HYDRODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; THERMOHYDRODYNAMICS; TRIBOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 84936992584     PISSN: 10238883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-014-0444-7     Document Type: Article

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