Hey,
A friend of mine is studying car mechanics. He's in his last year and he's doing his
paper on the loss of energy in engines.
I told him that there are quite a few people on this car forum that know a lot about those things so I said I would ask.
This is a translation of his email:
The purpose of my paper is to calculate the "effectiveness" (I don't know how to translate this properly) of an engine. To put it simply: what goes in and what comes out. I also have to measure the losses myself. You have mecanical loss because of friction, heat loss because of radiation and convection to the environment (or something like that), heat loss because of the cooling system, ...
Especially the measurement of radiation & convection of the mechanical losses are hard to measure. It would be nice if someone on the car forum could give me some tips on information or literature consering the subject. Especially about the practical way of measuring would be interesting.
Thx in advance
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It's a rather difficult subject, but I could give it a try!