This paper investigates the potential of coated pistons in reducing fuel consumption and
pollutant emissions of a 1.6 l automotive diesel engine. After a literary review on the state-of …

The work involved the development and on-engine testing of a new “thermo-swing” barrier
coating for reduced wall heat transfer and increased thermal efficiency in future diesel …

A one-dimensional analytical method of determining the surface temperature of a thermal
barrier coated plane wall subjected to an arbitrarily time-varying heat flux was developed …

Insulating engine combustion chamber surfaces with thermal barrier coatings (TBCs)
provides engine thermal efficiency improvement by reducing the heat transfer to the coolant …

Heat losses through combustion chamber walls are a well-known limiting factor for the
overall efficiency of internal combustion engines. Thermal insulation of the walls has the …

A methodology to thermo-mechanically optimize a piston thermal barrier coating over a full
drive cycle was established. The optimization objective was to minimize the heat transfer to …

Clean and highly efficient internal combustion engines will still be necessary in the future to
meet the ambitious CO 2 emissions reduction targets set for light-duty vehicles. The maximal …

A methodology to numerically study the impact of a thin, multi-layer coating applied on the
piston crown surface of an internal combustion engine is proposed. It relies on a loose …

This work studies the optimum heat release law of a direct injection diesel engine under
constrained conditions. For this purpose, a zero-dimensional predictive model of a diesel …

Opposed-piston 2-stroke diesel engines (OP2S) have lower combustion chamber surface-
area-to-volume ratio, resulting in lower transfer loss but also excessive surface temperature …