The internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers (1909)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, Van Nostrand · leaf 73
and many deductions had been made there-from. Mr. Dugald Clerks new method of experiment consistedin running a gas engine under the ordinary standard condi-tions and then at a given moment preventing the exhaust andinlet valves from opening, and at the same time taking a seriesof indicator… … Fig. 10.—Dugald Clerks Zig-Zag curves. 1/9 mixture of these curves it was possible to make refined calculationsas to what was occurring to the gas in the cylinder. Theaverage temperature must clearly diminish owing to theeffect of the water-cooled walls, whilst if combustion con-tinues after the…
Internal combustion engines
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