Combustion in Piston Engines

Upon an exponential growth of life on earth, supported by a century of oil­ based energy economy, following a century of its coal-based phase, the world we live in is facing a point of inflection! at the threshold of an expo­ nential decay. It is, in fact, the quest for counteracting its dreaded conse­ quences that are bound to follow, which half a century ago provided the stimulus for launching t...