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Engine Knock, A Renewed Concern In Motorsports - A Literature Review
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This paper reviews the literature which identifies the causes, consequences and cures for engine knock as it affects high performance engines. The physical events of normal and abnormal combustion are described. The observed variations in combustion phenomenon are explained through chemical kinetics. A mathematical model of combustion which can predict knock in an engine cylinder is summarized. Several mechanisms of knock induced damage are outlined. Design and operating considerations which affect an engine's propensity to knock are discussed. Terms that have become associated with combustion in general and the knocking phenomenon in particular are collected and examined
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Towers, J. and Hoekstra, R., "Engine Knock, A Renewed Concern In Motorsports - A Literature Review," SAE Technical Paper 983026, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4271/983026.Also In
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