ENME489P: Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering; Control of Smart Structures

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: ENME361

Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024

Understand and solve major engine performance parameters
- Understand various engine cycles and apply thermodynamics for engine cycle analysis
- Apply thermodynamics and properties for global combustion, heating values and flame temperature
- Explain the difference between ideal and actual engine cycles, and the effects of major operating parameters on engine combustion and performance
- Understand and explain various valvetrain technologies, the effect of major parameters, and calculate valve size
Explain various engine losses and solve major estimated losses
- Understand test cell methods and major test cell instrument principles, and explain test cycles
- Explain gasoline and diesel engine technologies and the roles and principles of major components
- Explain major emissions formation principles and their roles Understand and explain advanced engine technologies

Week 1: Course introduction, history of engines and some principles, engine overview
Week 2: Engine geometric parameters, major performance and efficiency parameter calculations
Week 3: Air standard cycles
Week 4: Fuel chemistry, mixtures, stoichiometry, enthalpy of formation
Week 5: Enthalpy of combustion, heating values, flame temperature
Week 6: Fuel-Air cycles, engine modeling, and mid-term review
Week 7: Mid-term exam
Week 8: Engine breathing
Week 9: Engine losses and efficiencies
Week 10: Modern controls and testing
Week 11: Homogeneous charge spark ignition (HCSI) operations
Week 12: Stratified charge compression ignition (SCCI) operations
Week 13: Emissions and their controls
Week 14: Advanced concepts and final exam review
Week 15: Final exam

Kweon, Mike

Internal Combustion Engines: Applied Thermosciences, 3rd Ed., C. Ferguson and A. Kirkpatrick, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.
Supplemental Materials: course notes developed by Mike Kweon and other reading materials, Engineering Equation Solver (EES)

Last Updated By

Mike Kweon, June 2017