DYNAMICS OF EXOTHERMICITY

DYNAMICS OF EXOTHERMICITY AND ENGINE CARDIOLOGY

Study of the dynamic features and elements of exothermic processes and systems - a subject of particular relevance to combustion in automotive piston engines and gas turbines, as well as to the evolution and effects of explosions. The scientific disciplines it involves consist of thermodynamics, thermochemistry (chemodynamics) and aerodynamics, considered as components of gasdynamics, treated by the methods of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). This is amended by the dynamics of control - the technological aim of the study. Since, in application to automotive engineering, combustion is at the heart of the system, the profession thus ushered in may be referred to as engine cardiology.

Thus, instead of relying on external treatment of chemical processing of effluents in the exhaust system, as it is done today, the study is intended to provide the fundamental background for the development of future technology to curb the formation of pollutants in an engine cylinder, as well as in a gas turbine combustor, and, at the same time, enhance their efficiency - rendering the combustion powerplants fuel conserving and environmentally benign.