G.P. Blair's book, "Design and Simulation of Four-Stroke Engines"

Frank:

If I understand correctly you really are looking either the errata sheet or for a properly updated single chapter. One possibility is an engineering library that takes care of their books. If you go to

The other approach is to email the author...textbook authors are usually very happy to have mistakes pointed out. There isn't much point in going to all that trouble just to confuse or mislead readers.

He'll probably be delighted.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

Thanks for the replies. I contacted Professor Blair and he was good enough to send me the latest errata sheet. Unfortunately, the corrections did not cover my areas of concern--primarily the inability to obtain accurate results using the equations in Chapter 2, "Gas Flow Through Four-Stroke Engines; specifically, the section on Outward Flow from a Cylinder to a Pipe.

I'm using the information in Dr. Blair's text as a foundation for a program I'm writing to simulate multi-branch exhaust systems. I'm aware that there are programs out there that do something like this (including Dr. Blair's), but as a retired mechanical/software engineer, I enjoy the challenge of putting this together myself.

I guess my next question is: Has anyone used the equations in this text (or his two-stroke text) with any success?

Thanks again,

Frank