Some critical technical issues on the steady flow testing of cylinder heads

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Xu, Hongming ^a  

^a JAGUAR LAND ROVER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEADY FLOW;

ANGULAR FLOWS; BENCH EXPERIMENT; COMBUSTION PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; FLOW PARAMETERS; FLOW TESTING; TEST CONDITION;

CYLINDER HEADS;

EID: 85072454727     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2001-01-1308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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