Transactions (Society of Automobile Engineers), Vol. 11, PART II (1916), pp. 94-117 (24 pages) The authors first define the elementary conditions governing combustion efficiency, dividing these ...

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A.Here's a pressure-volume diagram for a combustion engine. Although rough, it is an approximation of the so-called air-standard cycle. '' Point (a) is at atmospheric pressure, after which the air is ...