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This book provides design assistance with the actual mechanical design of an engine in which the gas dynamics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and combustion have been optimized so as to provide the required performance characteristics such as power, torque, fuel consumption, or noise emission. Read more
Publisher : SAE International
Publication date : August 15, 1999
Language : English
Print length : 844 pages
ISBN-10 : 0768004403
ISBN-13 : 03
Item Weight : 3.65 pounds
Dimensions : 7.49 x 1.97 x 10.35 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #274,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #31 in Vehicle Design & Construction #88 in Automotive Engine Mechanics #145 in Automotive Engineering (Books)
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Format: Hardcover
Gran libro escrito por un referente de la simulación de Motores el Profesor Blair
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2026 by Claudio Martins
Format: Hardcover
The text is well written, and well organized. The first few chapters provide a good overview of combustion engines including modeling techniques. More advanced topics are treated in later chapters. Many engines are compared, and the author often suggests heuristics or rules of thumb which tend to work as well as more advanced methods. The balanced look at heuristic approaches, and complex model based approaches are carefully evaluated, and the interested reader is given enough information to make decisions on given design choices. I recommend this to all interested in engine design or modeling.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2012 by alec
Format: Hardcover
Engine science is difficult, and instead of describing engine models, it mostly seems to describe ways of describing engine models without very much detail. Important factors such as determining losses as heat and providing estimates for combustion models are absent.
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2015 by James
Format: Hardcover
Great reference source. I have found information that would only be available on a college level and also the experience from someone who has been in the engine design field. I recommend it to serious engine builders, not an entry level book.
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2014 by Galon Snyder
Format: Hardcover
Great book if you want to undertake numerical modelling breathing of 4-stroke internal combustion engines, espcially intake ramming and exhaust scavenging
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2014 by Geoff Wilson
Format: Hardcover
As a relatively new designer of the four-stroke-cycle engine, Design and Simulation of Four-Stroke Engines is by far the most important single source of information to me. I also own Blair's Design and Simulation of Two-Stroke Engines. This book covers four-stroke engines with the same blend of sophisticated full thermodynamic cycle modeling and empirical insight. An introductory chapter enlightens the reader to the geometry of the four-stroke engine, defines terminology as it will be found in subsequent chapters and reviews thermodynamic theory as it will be applied to the computer model. Chapter 2, as in Design and Simulation of Two-Stroke Engines, lays the ground work for the heart of the computer model, the prediction of unsteady gas flow through engine ducting. A more complete explanation of a one dimensional method for the prediction of unsteady, compressible flow through engine ducting simply cannot be found. The following chapter is dedicated to the definition and measurement of an "actual" coefficient of discharge for poppet valve systems and why they are critically important to the model as compared with the more traditional ideal or isentropic coefficients of discharge. Chapter 4 explains the theory for the 2-zone burn model for combustion in the cylinder while providing insight into the proper design and geometry of the combustion chamber. Throughout the book, the focus is on the naturally-aspirated four-stroke engine, however, where applicable information is given on turbocharging and direct and in-direct diesel combustion. One of the most important chapters to the actual user of the computer model is Chapter 5. I have used Prof. Blair's software in two-stroke and four-stroke versions for the Mac and now use Optimum Power's offerings for the IBM compatible. No less than 6 different engines are analyzed using the simulation ranging from a string trimmer to a motorcycle to a turbo-diesel automobile. All the relevant data is given to create the geometry in the model. As each engine is discussed, the strengths of the particular design are pointed out and explained via the pressure wave diagrams created by the model itself. All these engines display very good correlation with actual measurements even though they vary in output from 1 kW to 525 kW. In addition to the geometric data for these engines, the combustion input parameters for the model are also given which are from actual running engines. Therefore, one could take this combustion information and apply it to a similar model with good confidence that this is close to reality. In order to reduce the design cycle time, Blair has included an entire chapter on empirical approaches to design geometry that are intended to be good starting points for input into the model. I find the intake tract tuned length program and the poppet valve time-area program the most useful. A final chapter is devoted to the current state of the design methodology for intake and exhaust silencing systems and how the thermodynamics from Chapter 2 are now being implemented to predict silencer performance. In conclusion, Design and Simulation of Four-Stroke Engines is a highly recommended read for anyone involved in the design or tuning of four-stroke engines and a must for anyone involved in the thermodynamic modeling of these engines.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 1999 by Mel Cahoon
Format: Hardcover
This extensive new work by Professor Blair on four-stroke engine design is a welcome addition to his previously published treatises on two-stroke engines. Coverage of material spans basic ideas of unsteady gas flow, to the detailed analysis of single and muticylinder engine configurations using a state-of-the-art computer code. One of the highlights of the book from my own perspective is the author's coverage of engines with historical significance. The new insight gained from detailed analysis of their operating behavior using the computer code gives one a much greater appreciation of the intricacies of efficient engine design. This book will be a valuable asset to teacher and and student alike, by providing a broad range of relevant subject matter in a single volume. I highly recommend this excellent book.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 1999 by Dr Sam Coates
Format: Hardcover
The most complete and straightforward four-stroke text to date. This book is a must have for any serious engine designers library. Filled with many gems of wisdom, insight, and direct calculations relating to four-stroke engine design as well as historical background in engine design.. The book is so packed with information that numerous readings may be necessary to grasp all that Blair has to offer. Design examples abound from the top engine designers in the world (although anonymity is required). The professor has done an exemplary job in assimilating the results to find the common thread among the great current and past engine designers. A good review of thermodynamics for the past and present college students and a good stating place to those without college thermodynamics. The heart of the book is wave dynamics in the engine design process, both in theory and application. Finally for those that must silence the music of the 4-stroke there is a section on muffler design.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 1999 by Dr. Douglas Hahn, Director Engine & Reliability Engineering Volvo Penta ([email protected])