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Old 06-08-2011, 10:59 AM   #73
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Originally Posted by Libor View Post
I understand your reasoning but doesn´t such approach ignores that rotor housing has two TDCs and BDCs?

Common sense would tell that we examine only intake part, but who knows

I think that wankel engine should be treated as wankel - whole termodynamic cycle is completed only after 3 revolutions. And of course 3 such cycles will be completed, just shifted by 360°.
That's all displacement is measuring. The amount of air injested by the engine when each piston (whether you want to consider a piston the rotor itself or the faces there of is inconsequential) goes from TDC to BDC. We don't count the TDC to BDC of the Compression/Expansion of the piston engines, why would we for the rotary?

Why do we care again about the thermodynamic cycle or how many revolutions it's completed in; when we're worried about displacement?
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