THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Thermal Science Archive volume 17, year 2013, No. 1

Issue dedicated to the research in the field of procedures and consequences of thermal processes of internal combustion engines.

Words from the Editors

From the Editor-in-Chief, issue 2013/1

Original Scientific Papers

Original Scientific Papers
Premixed ignition characteristics of blends of gasoline and diesel-like fuels on a rapid compression machine
Computational fluid dynamics simulation of the combustion process, emission formation and the flow field in an in-direct injection diesel engine
Experimental investigation of the fluid dynamic efficiency of a high performance multi-valve internal combustion engine during the intake phase: Influence of valve-valve interference phenomena
Experimental study on exhaust gas after treatment using limestone
Improvement of emissions and performance by using of air jet, exhaust gas re-circulation and insulation methods in a direct injection diesel engine
Investigations of effects of pilot injection with change in level of compression ratio in a common rail diesel engine
Study on effect of fuel injection strategy on combustion noise and exhaust emission of diesel engine
Energy and exergy analyses of homogeneous charge compressin ignition (HCCI) engine
Efficiency characteristics of a new quasi-constant volume combustion spark ignition engine
A neuro-fuzzy based combustion sensor for the control of optimal engine combustion efficiency
Artificial neural network approach to predicting engine-out emissions and performance parameters of a turbo charged diesel engine
Towards artificial intelligence based diesel engine performance control under varying operating conditions using support vector regression
Investigation on performance and emissions of a biodiesel engine through optimization techniques
Computational fluid dynamics simulation of a single cylinder research engine working with biodiesel
A simulated study on the performance of diesel engine with ethanol-diesel blend fuel
Comparative study of macroscopic spray parameters and fuel atomization behaviour of SVO (Jatropha), its biodiesel and blends
Performance and emissions of an engine fuelled with a biodiesel fuel produced from animal fats
Numerical study on the combustion process of a biogas spark-ignition engine
Performance and emission characteristics of double biodiesel blends with diesel
Effects of fossil diesel and biodiesel blends on the performances and emissions of agricultural tractor engines
Spray and combustion visualization of bio-diesel in a direct injection diesel engine
Exhaust emissions of methanol and ethanol-unleaded gasoline blends in a spark-ignition engine

Open Forum

Open discussion paper.
A phenomenological model of two-phase (air/fuel) droplet developing and breakup

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