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7 Citations
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6 December 2024

This article presents a detailed approach to constructing a numerical model of a free power turbine engine specifically designed for performance analysis in the Matlab R2024b environment. The core innovation of this model lies in its integration of p...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,192 Views
17 Pages

18 October 2022

Thermal-lag engines are external combustion engines with a single moving piston. This feature leads to lower manufacturing and maintenance costs than traditional Stirling engines. Although the original concept of thermal-lag engines was invented roug...

(This article belongs to the Section I: Energy Fundamentals and Conversion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,028 Views
17 Pages

Modeling and Validation of a Diesel Engine with Turbocharger for Hardware-in-the-Loop Applications

  • Jinguan Yin,
  • Tiexiong Su,
  • Zhuowei Guan,
  • Quanhong Chu and ,
  • Changjiang Meng,
  • Li Jia,
  • Jun Wang and
  • Yangang Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 May 2017

This paper presents a simulator model of a diesel engine with a turbocharger for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) applications, which is used to obtain engine performance data to study the engine performance under faulty conditions, to assist engineers in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internal Combustion Engines 2017)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,096 Views
12 Pages

This study models the subcritical Hopf bifurcation in thermoacoustic Stirling engines using the Stuart–Landau model, highlighting the role of nonlinear dynamics. By inducing self-sustained oscillations and measuring pressure fluctuations across...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,313 Views
31 Pages

A Survey of Aero-Engine Blade Modeling and Dynamic Characteristics Analyses

  • Yaqiong Zhang,
  • Fubin Wang,
  • Jinchao Liu,
  • Heng Zhao and ,
  • Chao Fu,
  • Weihao Zhai and
  • Kuan Lu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The rotating blade is a key component of an aero-engine, and its vibration characteristics have an important impact on the performance of the engine and are vital for condition monitoring. This paper reviews the research progress of blade dynamics, i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State Monitoring and Health Management of Complex Equipment (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,578 Views
18 Pages

This paper presents a study on the modeling and control of an aero-engine within the full flight envelope using the Takagi–Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy theory. A highly accurate aero-engine small deviation state variable model (SVM) was developed using t...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,835 Views
15 Pages

A State Space Modeling Method for Aero-Engine Based on AFOS-ELM

  • Hongyi Chen,
  • Qiuhong Li,
  • Shuwei Pang and
  • Wenxiang Zhou

25 May 2022

State space models (SSMs) are important for multi-variable performance analysis and controller design of aero-engines. In order to solve the problems of the traditional state space modeling methods that rely on component-level models (CLMs) and canno...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,684 Views
19 Pages

Experimental Testing and Optimization-Based Performance Modeling of a Microjet Engine

  • Alexandros Vouros,
  • Andreas Kyriazis,
  • Ioannis Templalexis and
  • Roussos Papagiannakis

11 September 2025

In this paper, experimental results for a JetCat P80 microjet engine mounted on the GUNT ET796 microscale testing facility are presented. The data set is initially used to verify trends in performance parameters, including thrust force, compressor pr...

(This article belongs to the Section I2: Energy and Combustion Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,052 Views
15 Pages

1D and Map-Based Modeling Approaches for Railway Compression Ignition Engine in NRTC Application

  • Giuseppe Di Luca,
  • Massimiliano Muccillo,
  • Giovanni Giardiello,
  • Alfredo Gimelli and
  • Gabriele Di Blasio

4 March 2022

Internal combustion engine-driven railway vehicles play an important role in the sector even today, due to the incomplete electrification of railway routes. However, stringent COP26 environmental rules are driving manufacturers and the scientific com...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,334 Views
18 Pages

21 January 2025

Currently, green hydrogen, generated through renewable energy sources, stands out as one of the best substitutes for fossil fuels in mitigating pollutant emissions and consequent global warming. Particularly, the utilization of hydrogen in spark igni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Engine Combustion Characteristics, Performance, and Emission)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,445 Views
29 Pages

Low-Speed Marine Diesel Engine Modeling for NOx Prediction in Exhaust Gases

  • Branko Lalić,
  • Andrijana Poljak,
  • Gojmir Radica and
  • Antonija Mišura

23 July 2021

Knowing the process of generating exhaust emissions and the determination of influential parameters are important factors in improving two-stroke slow-speed marine engines, particularly for further reductions in fuel consumption and stringent regulat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,875 Views
23 Pages

Spark Ignition Engine Modeling Using Optimized Artificial Neural Network

  • Hilkija Gaïus Tosso,
  • Saulo Anderson Bibiano Jardim,
  • Rafael Bloise and
  • Max Mauro Dias Santos

8 September 2022

The spark ignition engine is a complex multi-domain system that contains many variables to be controlled and managed with the aim of attending to performance requirements. The traditional method and workflow of the engine calibration comprise measure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technology in Internal Combustion Engines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,071 Views
26 Pages

Accurate turbojet engine performance prediction is crucial for condition monitoring, health management, and safe operation. Conventional component-level models require iterative solutions of strongly nonlinear matching equations and are sensitive to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,123 Views
20 Pages

23 December 2020

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of the engine position and mass as well as the pylon stiffness on the aeroelastic stability of a long-range wide-body transport aircraft. As reference configuration, DLR’s (German Aerosp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aeroelasticity, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,468 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Real-Time Mechanism Modeling Approach for Turbofan Engine

  • Qianjing Chen,
  • Jinquan Huang,
  • Muxuan Pan and
  • Feng Lu

7 October 2019

Nonlinear component level model (NCLM) is a widely used model for aeroengines. However, it requires iterative calculation and is, therefore, time-consuming, which restricts its real-time application. This study aims at developing a simplified real-ti...

(This article belongs to the Section I: Energy Fundamentals and Conversion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,231 Views
16 Pages

6 July 2012

Distributed generation with a combustion engine prime mover is still widely used to supply electric power in a variety of applications. These applications range from backup power supply systems and combined wind-diesel generation to providing power i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrical Power and Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,479 Views
23 Pages

28 February 2025

The speed of the engine–propeller directly determines the power output for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with internal combustion engines. However, variable air pressure can impact the engine’s air exchange and combustion processes, caus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV System Modelling Design and Simulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,639 Views
20 Pages

15 December 2022

The marine dual-fuel engine can switch between diesel and gas modes according to the requirements of sailing conditions, fuel cost, and other working conditions to make sure the ship is in the best operating condition. In fuel-mode switching in engin...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
99 Views
33 Pages

3 November 2026

Public aircraft engine certification data provide a reproducible basis for emissions modeling when the proprietary combustor geometry, engine cycle data, and detailed operating histories are unavailable. This study develops a physically constrained r...

(This article belongs to the Section Gas Emissions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,226 Views
33 Pages

Liquid Rocket Engine Performance Characterization Using Computational Modeling: Preliminary Analysis and Validation

  • Md. Amzad Hossain,
  • Austin Morse,
  • Iram Hernandez,
  • Joel Quintana and
  • Ahsan Choudhuri

8 October 2024

The need to refuel future missions to Mars and the Moon via in situ resource utilization (ISRU) requires the development of LOX/LCH4 engines, which are complex and expensive to develop and improve. This paper discusses how the use of digital engineer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,096 Views
24 Pages

Control-Oriented Modeling for Nonlinear MIMO Turbofan Engine Based on Equilibrium Manifold Expansion Model

  • Chengkun Lv,
  • Ziao Wang,
  • Lei Dai,
  • Hao Liu and ,
  • Juntao Chang and
  • Daren Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 October 2021

This paper investigates the control-oriented modeling for turbofan engines. The nonlinear equilibrium manifold expansion (EME) model of the multiple input multiple output (MIMO) turbofan engine is established, which can simulate the variation of high...

(This article belongs to the Topic Optimisation, Optimal Control and Nonlinear Dynamics in Electrical Power, Energy Storage and Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
6,117 Views
29 Pages

Modeling and Optimization of a Compression Ignition Engine Fueled with Biodiesel Blends for Performance Improvement

  • Ali Alahmer,
  • Hegazy Rezk,
  • Wail Aladayleh,
  • Ahmad O. Mostafa and ,
  • Mahmoud Abu-Zaid,
  • Hussein Alahmer,
  • Mohamed R. Gomaa,
  • Amel A. Alhussan and
  • Rania M. Ghoniem
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

28 January 2022

Biodiesel is considered to be a promising alternative option to diesel fuel. The main contribution of the current work is to improve compression ignition engine performance, fueled by several biodiesel blends. Three metrics were used to evaluate the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Simulation in Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
546 Views
22 Pages

A Hybrid Algorithm Modeling on Test-Bench Data for Light-Duty Afterburning Turbojet Engine

  • Tong Xin,
  • Jiaxian Sun,
  • Chunyan Hu,
  • Chenchen Wang and
  • Haoran Pan

26 December 2025

For highly maneuverable aircraft, the afterburning engine serves as a core and critical component. Due to the complex structure of the afterburner and the strong coupling among parameters, mechanism-based modeling of afterburning engines remains extr...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
836 Views
25 Pages

3 December 2025

The agility and scalability of modern industrial control systems critically depend on seamlessly integrating of heterogeneous field devices. However, this integration is fundamentally hindered at the communication level by the diversity of proprietar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,098 Views
27 Pages

This paper presents an integrated framework for aircraft engines, which consists of three phases: modeling, control, and experimental testing. The engine is formulated as an uncertain T–S fuzzy model. By a hierarchical dynamical parameter clust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,174 Views
15 Pages

20 September 2022

The task of choosing the modes and duration of life tests of complex technical objects, such as aircraft engines, is a complex and difficult-to-formalize task. Experimental optimization of the parameters of life tests of complex technical objects is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,974 Views
17 Pages

10 October 2024

Nowadays, engine room simulators have become an important tool for maritime training, but programming engine room simulators often involves handling large amounts of data, making the process inefficient. This paper proposes an innovative visual model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,741 Views
15 Pages

10 December 2024

The choice of parameters for the life tests of gas turbine engines is a complex multi-criteria task. In this article, as a tool for solving this task, it is proposed to use simulation modeling of the engine life cycle to select gas turbine engine lif...

(This article belongs to the Section I2: Energy and Combustion Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,044 Views
15 Pages

Modeling and Performance Analysis of Variable Cycle Engine with Ceramic Matrix Composite Turbine Blades

  • Baokuo Li,
  • Sheng Huang,
  • Huaixu Yan,
  • Xiaobo Zhang and ,
  • Kun Du and
  • Zhanxue Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 October 2024

To meet the requirements of future aircraft for power systems, the turbine inlet temperatures of aero engines are gradually increasing. Ceramic matrix composite (CMC), with its higher thermal limit, has become the preferred material for the turbine b...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,668 Views
12 Pages

7 April 2020

Exact component characteristics are required for establishing an accurate component level aeroengine model. When component characteristics is lacking, the dynamic coefficient method based on test data, is suitable for establishing a single-input and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Energy System Modeling 2018)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,977 Views
43 Pages

Transient Performance of Gas-Engine-Based Power System on Ships: An Overview of Modeling, Optimization, and Applications

  • Shen Wu,
  • Tie Li,
  • Run Chen,
  • Shuai Huang and ,
  • Fuguo Xu and
  • Bin Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 December 2023

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is widely regarded as the midterm solution toward zero-carbon transportation at sea. However, further applications of gas engines are challenging due to their weak dynamic load performance. Therefore, the comprehension of...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,372 Views
21 Pages

Modeling of Three-Way Catalyst Dynamics for a Compressed Natural Gas Engine during Lean–Rich Transitions

  • Dario Di Maio,
  • Carlo Beatrice,
  • Valentina Fraioli,
  • Pierpaolo Napolitano and ,
  • Stefano Golini and
  • Francesco Giovanni Rutigliano
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 October 2019

The main objective of the present research activity was to investigate the effect of very fast composition transitions of the engine exhaust typical in real-world driving operating conditions, as fuel cutoff phases or engine misfire, on the aftertrea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Combustion and Energy Sciences for CO2 Reduction in Internal Combustion Engines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
618 Views
22 Pages

Thermal-Fluid Modeling and Kriging Surrogate-Assisted Lightweight Simulation of a Piston Engine for Large Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Nan Li,
  • Hebin Ren,
  • Xiaohu Yang,
  • Lanqi Zhang and ,
  • Shuping Che,
  • Zhixiang He,
  • Yuhang Wang and
  • Wennian Yu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 July 2026

Piston engines are the core power units of large unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the characteristics of their thermal-fluid working processes directly affect the power performance and operational reliability of UAVs. To address the difficulty of...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,135 Views
19 Pages

Agustín de Betancourt’s Double-Acting Steam Engine: Geometric Modeling and Virtual Reconstruction

  • José Ignacio Rojas-Sola,
  • Belén Galán-Moral and
  • Eduardo De la Morena-De la Fuente

20 August 2018

In this paper, the geometric modeling and virtual reconstruction of the double-acting steam engine designed by Agustín de Betancourt in 1789 are shown. For this, the software Autodesk Inventor Professional is used, which has allowed us to obta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
11,457 Views
21 Pages

Aircraft Engine Prognostics Based on Informative Sensor Selection and Adaptive Degradation Modeling with Functional Principal Component Analysis

  • Bin Zhang,
  • Kai Zheng,
  • Qingqing Huang,
  • Song Feng and ,
  • Shangqi Zhou and
  • Yi Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 February 2020

Engine prognostics are critical to improve safety, reliability, and operational efficiency of an aircraft. With the development in sensor technology, multiple sensors are embedded or deployed to monitor the health condition of the aircraft engine. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Prognostics and Health Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,479 Views
17 Pages

22 July 2019

This study aims to construct a reduced thermodynamic cycle model with high accuracy and high model execution speed based on artificial neural network training for real-time numerical analysis. This paper proposes a method of constructing a fast avera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling of Thermal and Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,077 Views
17 Pages

Thermal–Hydraulic Modeling and H∞ Control for Aero-Engine Fuel Metering Units

  • Ke Wang,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Pengyuan Li,
  • Di Wu and ,
  • Lifeng Cui and
  • Bin-Bin Hao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 November 2025

Aero-engines operate across wide flight envelopes and harsh environments, requiring the fuel metering unit (FMU) to perform reliably over a broad temperature range. Fuel temperature fluctuations significantly modify viscosity and density, which in tu...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,402 Views
26 Pages

Dynamic Modeling and Full-Process Simulation of the Core Engine Test Rig Main Test System

  • Ze-Zheng Jia,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Ye-Jun Wang,
  • Zhen-Qi Sun and
  • Yu-Long Huang

25 November 2021

As a virtual digital model that can reflect physical entities or systems, digital twins are revolutionizing industry. The first prerequisite for the construction of digital twins is the establishment of high-precision and complex entities or system m...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,583 Views
22 Pages

17 October 2021

Blade off that occurs during operation will generate a sudden imbalance excitation and make the rotor become inertially asymmetric, which leads to large instantaneous impact load and induces more complex rotor dynamic phenomena. In order to study the...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,158 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2016

It is feared that the increasing population of vehicles in the world and the depletion of fossil-based fuel reserves could render transportation and other activities that rely on fossil fuels unsustainable in the long term. Concerns over environmenta...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,036 Views
13 Pages

20 December 2024

The use of modeling and simulation methods for engines is considered an important part of the aircraft design process. However, the traditional approach is complicated and time-consuming. In this work, a facile, novel engine dynamic simulation method...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,087 Views
18 Pages

9 April 2016

Waste heat recovery (WHR) in exhaust gas flow of automotive engines has proved to be a useful path to increase the overall efficiency of internal combustion engines (ICE). Recovery potentials of up to 7% are shown in several works in the literature....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 3rd International Seminar on ORC Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,142 Views
44 Pages

Exergy Analysis in Highly Hydrogen-Enriched Methane Fueled Spark-Ignition Engine at Diverse Equivalence Ratios via Two-Zone Quasi-Dimensional Modeling

  • Dimitrios C. Rakopoulos,
  • Constantine D. Rakopoulos,
  • George M. Kosmadakis,
  • Evangelos G. Giakoumis and
  • Dimitrios C. Kyritsis

9 August 2024

In the endeavor to accomplish a fully de-carbonized globe, sparkling interest is growing towards using natural gas (NG) having as vastly major component methane (CH4). This has the lowest carbon/hydrogen atom ratio compared to other conventional foss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internal Combustion Engine Performance 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,370 Views
21 Pages

4 July 2025

This paper presents an innovative engine optimization model integrated with a friction fitting tool to enhance the accuracy of computed performance for a marine dual-fuel engine. The focus is on determining the terms of the Chen–Flynn correlati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Intelligent Modeling and Optimization Algorithms for Industrial Processes: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
386 Views
18 Pages

Model-Based Scenario Engineering Using Large Language Models for Vehicle Concept Development

  • Christian Raulf,
  • Lars Everding,
  • Armin Stein,
  • Souhaiel Ben Salem and
  • Thomas Vietor

Future-oriented requirements are difficult to capture during the early phases of vehicle concept development because conventional requirements engineering primarily considers current stakeholder needs and system environments. This paper proposes an e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
15,509 Views
14 Pages

4 September 2019

This paper presents an approach to the utilization of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) early in the system lifecycle, which focuses on early identification of desirable system characteristics to support mission engineering (ME). The paper relie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,862 Views
45 Pages

Decision Analysis Data Model for Digital Engineering Decision Management

  • Gregory S. Parnell,
  • C. Robert Kenley,
  • Devon Clark,
  • Jared Smith and ,
  • Frank Salvatore,
  • Chiemeke Nwobodo and
  • Sheena Davis
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 July 2025

Decision management is the systems engineering life cycle process for making program/system decisions. The purpose of the decision management process is: “…to provide a structured, analytical framework for objectively identifying, charac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital and Data-Driven Systems Engineering: Bridging Theory and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,925 Views
13 Pages

5 April 2021

A diesel engine is a typical dynamic system. In this paper, a dynamics method is proposed to establish the Hamiltonian model of the diesel engine, which solves the main difficulty of constructing a Hamiltonian function under the multi-field coupling...

(This article belongs to the Section L: Energy Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,381 Views
34 Pages

Combining Model-Based Systems Engineering and Knowledge-Centric Systems Engineering to Design Reliable Systems in Practice

  • Juan Manuel Morote,
  • Jose Luis de la Vara,
  • Giovanni Giachetti,
  • Clara Ayora and
  • Luis Alonso

24 February 2026

The use and importance of complex software-intensive systems are growing. As they are used in a wider range of situations in which dependability must be ensured, the reliability of the systems and of their components needs to be addressed throughout...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,817 Views
13 Pages

24 August 2020

In the requirement engineering phase, the team members work to get the user requirements, comprehend them and specify them for the next process. There are many models for the requirement engineering phase. There is a need to select the best Requireme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Retrieval and Reuse)

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