Course detail
Engine Dynamics
FSI-9DSM Acad. year: 2025/2026 Both semester
Driving mechanisms of combustion engines. Driving mechanisms kinematics and dynamics. Balancing of driving mechanisms of combustion engines. Combustion engines bearings. Vibration in driving mechanisms of combustion engines, calculation models. Vibration dampers in driving mechanisms, dynamic vibration dampers. Cam mechanisms in combustion engines. Dynamics of hybrid drives.
Language of instruction
Czech
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Technical mechanics, kinematics, dynamics. Elasticity and strength. Fundamentals of finite element method. Fundamentals of multi-body systems theory.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The exam verifies and evaluates the knowledge of mathematical and physical fundamentals of presented problems and application to solved tasks, foremost in relation with a dissertation thesis. The exam consists of a written part and an oral part.
Education runs by the way of tuitions with subject provider.
Aims
The objective of this course is to make students familiar with dynamics of driving mechanisms of combustion engines, in area of calculation methods and in experimental research too.
This course enables students to acquire the knowledge and basic practical skills within the area of calculation methods and experimental research of driving mechanism dynamics.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme D-KPI-P: Design and Process Engineering, Doctoral, recommended course
Type of course unit
Lecture
20 hours, optionally
Syllabus
Outline of lectures:
1. Powertrain mechanism of combustion engines, calculation models.
2. Forces in powertrains of combustion engines.
3. Powertrain balancing, crank mechanism.
4. Balancing of multi-cylinder in-line piston engines.
5. Balancing of V-engines and VR-engines.
6. Combustion engine powertrain vibrations, computational models.
7.Computational modelling of engine bearings.
8.Powertrain vibrations damping, dynamic dampers.
9.Dynamics of cam mechanism of combustion engines.
10. Dynamics of hybrid drives.