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Engines: An Introduction | 
 enlarge | Author: John L. Lumley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $56.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 632609
Media: Paperback
Pages: 268
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0521644895
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.43
EAN: 9780521644891
ASIN: 0521644895
Publication Date: June 28, 1999
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Product Description
The internal combustion engine that powers the modern automobile has changed very little from its initial design of some eighty years ago. Unlike many high tech advances, engine design still depends on an understanding of basic fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. This text offers a fresh approach to the study of engines, with an emphasis on design and on fluid dynamics. Professor Lumley, a renowned fluid dynamicist, provides a lucid explanation of how air and fuel are mixed, how they get into the engine, what happens to them there, and how they get out again. Particular attention is given to the complex issue of pollution. Every chapter includes numerous illustrations and examples and concludes with homework problems. Examples are taken from the early days of engine design, as well as the latest designs, such as stratified charge gasoline direct injection engines. It is intended that the text be used in conjunction with the Stanford Engine Simulation Program (ESP). This user-friendly, interactive software tool answers a significant need not addressed by other texts on engines. Aimed at undergraduate and first-year graduate students, the book will also appeal to hobbyists and car buffs who will appreciate the wealth of illustrations of classic, racing, and modern engines.
Book Description
This text offers a fresh approach to the study of engines, with an emphasis on design and on fluid dynamics. Professor Lumley, a renowned fluid dynamicist, explains how air and fuel are mixed, how they get into the engine, what happens to them there, and how they get out again. Particular attention is given to pollution. Every chapter includes numerous illustrations, examples, and homework problems. The text can be used in conjunction with the Stanford Engine Simulation Program (ESP), a user-friendly, interactive software tool that answers a significant need unaddressed by other texts. Aimed at undergraduate and first-year graduate students, the book will also appeal to car buffs who will appreciate the illustrations of classic, racing, and modern engines.
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 Best as a textbook, but still interesting otherwise October 5, 2005
misterbeets (Safe Harbor, MD USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This slim volume is for engineering students, complete with end-of-chapter problems, but is nonetheless readable, or at least skimmable, from cover to cover for those with an interest in engines. The writing is concise but not dry, with the author recounting his personal experiences with ruined VW engines. It has a sense of history, considering the 3.4L Jaguar engine first used in 1948 sufficiently modern to use as a benchmark to measure the late-Nineties Daihatsu against.
Some later sections run to several pages of calculations, so you won't read everything, but you'll still get a good qualitative understanding due to the author's own command of the subject.
 Good for beginners, good for advanced users July 13, 2000
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
The book begins very simple so beginners can use it. It is not a book a non-techical can easily read. I was looking for some theory about manifold design and the book gave me a good impression of the available methods. A disadvantage of the book is that it refers to ESP software developed at Stanford university. It is meant for instructural purposes but it is not downloadable from the Stanford university site. Overall I think the book is good due to the up-todate examples.
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