Combustion Engines Development

Abbreviations and symbols.- Part A: Foundations of thermodynamics and chemistry.- Introduction.- Reciprocating engine.- Combustion diagnostic.- Engine comustion.- Reaction kinetics.- Pollutant formation.- Part B: Total process simulation.- Calculation of the working process.- Charging of combustion engines.- Exhaust after treatment systems.- Total process analysis.- Part C: Simulation of combustion and charging.- Phenomenological combustion models.- Three-dimensional flow fields.- Simulation of fuel injection processes.- Simulation of combustion.- 3D-Simulation of the charging process.

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Günter P. Merker was born in Augsburg/Germany in 1942. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University in Munich and received his diploma in 1969. He worked than as an assistant lecturer at this Institute and got his PhD in 1974 with a thesis on free convection problems. From 1975 to 1976, he has been as a research fellow at the Californian Institute of Technology in Pasadena/CA. Having returned to the Munich Technical University, he qualified as a university lecturer in 1978. From 1978 to 1980, he was with MTU GmbH in Munich. In 1980 he accepted an associate professorship for refrigeration technology at the University of Karlsruhe. In 1986 he started work at MTU Friedrichshafen, where he was head of the department analytics and engine calculation. In 1994 he accepted a full professorship for combustion engines at the University of Hannover. There he was head of the Institute of Technical Combustion until he retired in 2005. He was adviser to 43 PhD students. He is editor and co-editor of more than 140 technical scientific publications as well as six technical books on thermal transmission, fluid mechanics and combustion engines. He is a member of the Scientific Association in Braunschweig as well as of different technical committees. In addition to that, he works as an independent adviser for engine manufactories and service industries. Apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian Schwarz was born in Regensburg in 1964. From 1983 to 1988, he studied mechanical engineering at the Munich Technical University. From 1989 to 1993, he worked as an assistant lecturer at the chair of internal combustion engines and vehicles at the Munich Technical University (Prof. Woschni). During that time he worked on unsteady, 0-dimensional process calculation for charged and quickly working diesel engines and got his PhD in 1993 on his thesis 'Simulation of the transient reaction of charged diesel engines during operation'. Still at the