Abstract
Engine power rating represents an important selling point in the automotive industry, but the use of big engines to develop the small power needed for day-to-day motoring conditions is an expensive and inefficient practice. The answer to this issue has been the addition of powerboosting devices to small engines. Following it will be investigated in greater detail the twinscrew supercharger design as part of an engineering solution that makes this supercharger type particularly efficient in high supercharging. An adaptive model-based intelligent design of helical rotor profiles is developed from the 3D parametric model of the supercharger conjugated rotors and integrated with commercial CAD software into an original 3D CAD module. The original 3D CAD module with built-in intelligent design features will be used for design of supercharger rotors or as design tool to investigate the relationships and effects of different rotor profiles on supercharger performance for a particular engine system. It could be regarded as a significant engineering design input to manufacturing of such components.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ICED 05: 15th International Conference on Engineering Design: Engineering Design and the Global Economy |
| Place of Publication | Barton, A.C.T |
| Pages | 903-915 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |