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Video INSIDE an IC Engine

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  • RonPRonP Posts: 384
    edited 2011-01-25 13:07
    erco

    So thats what it looks like. I always thought there would be more fire on the combustion stroke. Very interesting. Thanks

    -Ron
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2011-01-25 14:35
    Amazing! Wonder if this will lead to more efficient engines in the future now they can observe how the fuel burns?
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,260
    edited 2011-01-25 18:56
    Like everything else, combustion chamber science can get very complicated. Even back in the 1960s they were concerned with incoming charge momentum, valve lift & timing, reverse pumping, turbulence, squish area, combustion chamber shape, compression ratio, spark timing, gas octane rating, colliding flame fronts, etc. Modern tools like this camera will help verify some theories, obsolete others, and open up whole new cans of worms, hopefully making our future IC engines get the most out of our dwindling fossil fuel reserves.
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2011-01-25 20:23
    It looks like the cycle is cut short. The exhaust port changes from being open to being fully closed without movement of the valve in between. I think they replay the same incomplete cycle several times. Kind of annoying.
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