Presentation Slides: Engine downsizing technologies
Date published: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
slides from a presentation by Darren Blake, Principal Design Engineer - Powertrain, Lotus Engineering.
Topics covered include:
- Degree of downsizing
- Relieving throttling losses
- Miller cycle operation
- Downsizing or ‘correct-sizing’
- Performance of turbocharged engines
- Desirability of a large bore diameter
- Valve train system requirements
- Engine architecture impacts
- 4-cylinder versus 3-cylinder groups
