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HowStuffWorks: How Does a Miller Cycle Engine Work
Explains the technical and historical background of the Miller cycle.
www.howstuffworks.com
ASME: Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Division
Encourages research, development and data exchange among its members. Includes events, publications, codes and standards, and contact information.
www.asme.org
HowStuffWorks: How Automobile Ignition Systems Work
Explains the basics of ignition systems in Otto cycle engine. Includes technical animations and drawings.
www.howstuffworks.com
Describes different engine design concepts, sorted by nation, as well as some support systems. Addresses efficiency and performance, insights, characteristics, with pictures and animations.
conceptengine.tripod.com
HowStuffWorks: How Car Engines Work
Explains the basics of Otto cycle engines. Include technical drawings and animations.
www.howstuffworks.com
Wikipedia: Internal Combustion Engine
Free encyclopedia article covers internal combustion engine technology and applications. Addresses operation modes, thermodynamic cycle and efficiency, fuel types, support systems and parts.
en.wikipedia.org
Kruse Limited Temperature Cycle
Describes an innovative thermodynamic engine cycle which limits peak combustion temperature in direct injection petrol, gasoline and diesel engines. Includes engine cycle overview and description, references, diagrams and patents.
www.kruse-ltc.com
Four Stroke Internal Combustion Engine
Explains the strokes of internal combustion engines using animations from the Glenn Research Center.
www.grc.nasa.gov
Explains the basics of the Carnot cycle. Includes thermodynamic diagrams and theorems.
hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu
Free encyclopedia article explaining the Carnot cycle, with emphasis on engines.
en.wikipedia.org
Internal Combustion Engine Simulator
Visual applet simulating a four stroke Otto engine, with user changeable parameters. Shows the Carnot cycle and thermodynamic measures.
ir.chem.cmu.edu
Features technical articles and several calculation tools for evaluating the thermodynamic efficiency of engines.
www.smokemup.com