But it also means that mixing the fuel and air can be tricky, which is why diesel engines have specially-shaped pistons. A ...

Ship designers could use any kind of engine they choose, but they overwhelmingly opt for diesel engines. What's the reason ...

We’re introduced to the traditional two-stroke diesel engine as thermally efficient but not smooth-running, and then the gas turbine as smooth but much more inefficient. The free piston engine ...

THE paper by H. 0. Farmer on “Free-Piston Compressor-Engines”, read before the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on December 6, must have been for many their first introduction to the ...