Rechargeable batteries and fuel cells are seen as the two contenders to serve as a power source for the next generation of environmentally friendly vehicles. A significant barrier to achieving greater ...

To help account for fuel distribution during combustion in diesel engines, a fuel film model has been developed and implemented into the KIVA-II code [1]. Spray-wall interaction and spray-film ...

The behavior of liquid fuel droplets and the liquid fuel film within an intake manifold is studied. By considering the simultaneous processes of evaporation and acceleration of fuel droplets in an ...

Film cooling of rocket motors is to be demonstrated in the next quarter in long-duration tests of a prototype flight-weight engine built under a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and US Air ...