Calculations of the Unsteady, Three-Dimensional Flow Field Inside a Motored Wankel Engine

Authors

• Erlendur Steinthorsson - Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Florida
• Tom I-P. Shih - Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Florida
• Harold J. Schock - Department of Mechanical Engineering Michigan State Univ.
• James Stegeman - NASA-Lewis Research Center

Topic

• Combustion chambers

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