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hcoles,
Good points. I was thinking about the Alusil or Nikasil lining on the cylinder and modeling the contact gap, but it is probably insignificant because as you said, "it is all one piece".
If Scott would send me the cylinder only, we could start with a simple thermal FEA and based on your 30% power we could put 5% power on the cylinder wall and see what happens and how close it is to real world. If that works, we could add the heads and finally the crank assembly. We know how hot the oil is around those parts. Then we could do the transient studies and finally, if all of that works well, we could start with CFD modeling. I think Scott's presentation would have some additional appeal if there was a complete thermal FEA result to add to the presentation.
CT
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