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Computation of the dynamics of swirling vortex flow in a cylinder of an internal-combustion engine during the compression stroke

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The vortex flow configuration in an engine cylinder is calculated for various geometries of an undivided combustion chamber. The data of a numerical analysis and experimental measurements are compared.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 654–660, October, 1986.

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Gorokhovskii, M.A., Khlynin, V.P. Computation of the dynamics of swirling vortex flow in a cylinder of an internal-combustion engine during the compression stroke. Journal of Engineering Physics 51, 1238–1243 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00870855

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