"How the hell do you think that's going to make a difference," is my recollection of Smokey's reaction the first time he and I discussed certain ways of improving fuel atomization and the combustion ...

For gasoline to be burned in a Pontiac engine, three things need to occur. It must be atomized (broken into small particles), emulsified (mixed with air), and vaporized (changed into a rarefied form).

Understanding the atomization spray process is not only of academic interest but is also important to various industry applications such as combustion, coating, and chemical synthesis. Significant ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 105, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ENGINES (1996), pp. 529-536 (8 pages) This paper presents the effect of fuel atomization at an intake manifold on the combustion characteristics of a ...