Designing a better car engine
MAY 13, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024330
National Geographic : Two brothers, Levi and Corban Tillemann-Dick of IRIS Engines Inc , are carrying on their father’s dream of designing a smaller, lighter, and more efficient automobile engine. Unlike the traditional internal combustion engine, which drives pistons, their award-winning Internally Radiating Impulse Structure drives flanges that open and close like the iris of an eye. Compared with pistons, the flanges have a larger working surface area, which increases efficiency while reducing waste heat.
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