Gas motion within the cylinder is one of the major factors that control the combustion process in spark ignition engine. It also has significant impact on heat transfer. Both the bulk gas motion and the turbulence characteristics of the flow are important and governing the overall behavior of the flow. An arrangement for obtaining a stratified charge, using port injection, is proposed for a ...

It is shown that the notion of balancing a state space realization about a stable, isolated equilibrium point can be generalized to systems possessing only a stable invariant regular submanifold of arbitrary dimension, for example, a stable limit cycle.

This article presents a method for the explicit construction of limit state functions using Support Vector Machines (SVM). Specifically, the approach aims at handling the difficulties associated with the reliability assessment of problems exhibiting discontinuous responses and disjoint failure domains. The SVM-based explicit construction of limit state functions allows for an easy calculation o...