Measurement and analysis of the residual gas fraction in an SI engine with variable cam timing

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Alger, Terry ^a   Wooldridge, Steven ^a  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE ENGINE MANIFOLDS; CAMS; COBALT ALLOYS; ENGINE CYLINDERS; FLOW OF GASES; TIMING CIRCUITS;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIANCE; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; RAMAN EXPERIMENTS; RESIDUAL FRACTION; RESIDUAL LEVELS; RESIDUAL MASS FRACTIONS; SINGLE CYLINDERS; SPONTANEOUS RAMAN SCATTERING;

INTAKE VALVES;

EID: 85072428450     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2004-01-1356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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