Diesel Engine Engineering
Subtitle: Thermodynamics, Dynamics, Design, and Control (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker))
Publisher: CRC
Published: March 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780824707026
Subjects: Engineering thermodynamics; Engines & power transmission; Medical / Nursing; Diesel Engines; Thermodynamics (Engineering); Technology; Science/Mathematics; Power Resources; Engineering - Mechanical; General; Mechanics - Dynamics - Thermodynamics; Science / Thermodynamics; Diesel motor; Design and construction
First sentence: A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine in which the chemical energy of fuel is transformed into thermal energy of the cylinder charge, in consequence of the self-ignition and combustion of fuel in the engine cylinder after compression of the air charge in the cylinder.