A German engineer, Felix Wankel, is credited with developing the world's first rotary engine in the 1950s. Wankel rotary engines use a triangular rotor spinning in a semi-oval case on an eccentric ...

The rotary engine, with its egg-like block and triangular rotor, is an oddball even among all the other oddball engine designs—sorry, three-cylinder, twin-turbo, camless Koenigsegg, ya basic. That ...

See if any of these scenarios sound familiar: Every morning when you start your car, a small cloud of blue smoke erupts from the tailpipe. Or, even though your engine doesn't leak oil and apparently ...

The company has developed a high-performance fire seal to replace an earlier design in the International Aero Engines V2500 turbofan. The component is known as a bifurcation seal and fits between the ...

The European Union has set the goal of reducing overall CO2 emissions for newly registered cars to 95 g of CO2/km by the year 2020. Among other things, frictional losses in the engine and drive train ...