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In the video Moment of Inertia Demo, a man states that moment of inertia will be higher if the masses are away from the axis of rotation.
The engine take more power to spin the flywheel, because of its huge mass. Efficiency of the engine drops very low. I can only see more burden than smoothness.
This is the sample picture of an exposed flywheel.
How does a flywheel make an engine run smoothly?
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In the video Moment of Inertia Demo, a man states that moment of inertia will be higher if the masses are away from the axis of rotation.
The engine take more power to spin the flywheel, because of its huge mass. Efficiency of the engine drops very low. I can only see more burden than smoothness.
This is the sample picture of an exposed flywheel.
How does a flywheel make an engine run smoothly?
newtonian-mechanics rotational-dynamics moment-of-inertia inertia
edited Jun 15 at 13:21
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In the video Moment of Inertia Demo, a man states that moment of inertia will be higher if the masses are away from the axis of rotation.
The engine take more power to spin the flywheel, because of its huge mass. Efficiency of the engine drops very low. I can only see more burden than smoothness.
This is the sample picture of an exposed flywheel.
How does a flywheel make an engine run smoothly?
newtonian-mechanics rotational-dynamics moment-of-inertia inertia
edited Jun 15 at 13:21
Ruslan
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In the video Moment of Inertia Demo, a man states that moment of inertia will be higher if the masses are away from the axis of rotation.
The engine take more power to spin the flywheel, because of its huge mass. Efficiency of the engine drops very low. I can only see more burden than smoothness.
This is the sample picture of an exposed flywheel.
How does a flywheel make an engine run smoothly?
newtonian-mechanics rotational-dynamics moment-of-inertia inertia
newtonian-mechanics rotational-dynamics moment-of-inertia inertia
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By adding flywheel makes engine to take more power to spin the flywheel because of its huge mass. Efficiency of the engine drops very low. I can only see more burden than smoothness.
The burden is temporary in order to get the flywheel going. Once it gets going the stored rotational kinetic energy reduces the energy required by the engine. Refer to the figures below.
A flywheel is designed to efficiently store rotational kinetic energy. It resists changes in rpm by virtue of its rotational moment of inertia. The stored energy is proportional to the square of its rpm and proportional to its moment of inertia.
The stored rotational kinetic energy in the flywheel helps to keep it rotating thereby reducing the combustion energy required from the engine. The power stroke of the piston/cylinder, which follows figure 5 when the flywheel returns to its position in figure 1 (to start the compression stroke), is only needed to make up for the relatively small loss of rotational kinetic energy when the flywheel does positive work (compression) on the gas during figures 1-5.
Hope this helps.
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@Thomas Fritsch I have no objection to your edit. But I have seen quoting both in my original format as well a in the yellow highlighted text you used in editing my answer. Can you point to some "policy" on this site that gives priority to the one over the other?
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– Bob D
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Well, there's the Markdown help page and this meta.SE question. I'm not aware of any policies specifically saying that one should not format quotations as bold italicized body text, but I do wonder where you picked up the idea of doing so. At least I haven't seen anyone else doing it. Personally, I would not recommend it, since it's kind of ugly and hard to read, and also doesn't clearly indicate that the text is meant to be a quote.
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I saw it used when I first joined the exchange. Ugly? That's a matter of opinion. How do you highlight the text. Don't see a tool for that on the answer tools
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– Bob D
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You mean to make a block quote? Select the text and click the big quote mark (“) icon in the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Q. Or just manually type a>at the beginning of the paragraph. It's all on the Markdown editing help page.
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OK I'll give it a try. I should add, however, I've been using this format for nearly a year and this is the first time I can recall it being objected to (edited).
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A flywheel requires energy to spin up, but can also return that energy when needed. In a one piston engine, some energy from the combustion is used to accelerate the flywheel. However, in the compression phase, it returns some of its energy to the piston and helps retaining the rotational speed. Because the speed doesn't drop as much, the next combustion doesn't have to accelerate the flywheel that much. The exchange of energy from and to the flywheel cancel each other out, so it doesn't impact efficiency, but through its rotational inertia it helps keeping the rotational velocity more constant.
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Exposed flywheels are often used to drive flat belts as well, often with two side-by-side to enable a clutching system.
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A steam or internal combustion engine delivers energy in strokes as each cylinder in turn is filled with steam or burns its portion of fuel. But the load driven by the engine should usually rather be rotating at a steady speed than moving in strokes.
The flywheel does this job. It consumes the energy from cylinders as they release it -- in strokes, by speeding up -- and gives it to the driven mechanisms the rest of the time -- by gradually slowing down. The faster the flywheel rotates, the steadier its speed becomes because its kinetic energy is $Jomega^2/2$ and the portions added by cylinders (which are (roughly) constant) become lesser fractions of it.
A side benefit of this is that the control mechanic of engine's own cylinders can be driven by the flywheel, too. A drawback of this is that a separate "starter" facility is now required to drive it while the flywheel is not yet moving.
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By adding flywheel makes engine to take more power to spin the flywheel because of its huge mass. Efficiency of the engine drops very low. I can only see more burden than smoothness.
The burden is temporary in order to get the flywheel going. Once it gets going the stored rotational kinetic energy reduces the energy required by the engine. Refer to the figures below.
A flywheel is designed to efficiently store rotational kinetic energy. It resists changes in rpm by virtue of its rotational moment of inertia. The stored energy is proportional to the square of its rpm and proportional to its moment of inertia.
The stored rotational kinetic energy in the flywheel helps to keep it rotating thereby reducing the combustion energy required from the engine. The power stroke of the piston/cylinder, which follows figure 5 when the flywheel returns to its position in figure 1 (to start the compression stroke), is only needed to make up for the relatively small loss of rotational kinetic energy when the flywheel does positive work (compression) on the gas during figures 1-5.
Hope this helps.
edited Jun 14 at 15:15
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@Thomas Fritsch I have no objection to your edit. But I have seen quoting both in my original format as well a in the yellow highlighted text you used in editing my answer. Can you point to some "policy" on this site that gives priority to the one over the other?
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 0:02
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Well, there's the Markdown help page and this meta.SE question. I'm not aware of any policies specifically saying that one should not format quotations as bold italicized body text, but I do wonder where you picked up the idea of doing so. At least I haven't seen anyone else doing it. Personally, I would not recommend it, since it's kind of ugly and hard to read, and also doesn't clearly indicate that the text is meant to be a quote.
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– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 12:28
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I saw it used when I first joined the exchange. Ugly? That's a matter of opinion. How do you highlight the text. Don't see a tool for that on the answer tools
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 13:18
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You mean to make a block quote? Select the text and click the big quote mark (“) icon in the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Q. Or just manually type a>at the beginning of the paragraph. It's all on the Markdown editing help page.
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– Ilmari Karonen
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OK I'll give it a try. I should add, however, I've been using this format for nearly a year and this is the first time I can recall it being objected to (edited).
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By adding flywheel makes engine to take more power to spin the flywheel because of its huge mass. Efficiency of the engine drops very low. I can only see more burden than smoothness.
The burden is temporary in order to get the flywheel going. Once it gets going the stored rotational kinetic energy reduces the energy required by the engine. Refer to the figures below.
A flywheel is designed to efficiently store rotational kinetic energy. It resists changes in rpm by virtue of its rotational moment of inertia. The stored energy is proportional to the square of its rpm and proportional to its moment of inertia.
The stored rotational kinetic energy in the flywheel helps to keep it rotating thereby reducing the combustion energy required from the engine. The power stroke of the piston/cylinder, which follows figure 5 when the flywheel returns to its position in figure 1 (to start the compression stroke), is only needed to make up for the relatively small loss of rotational kinetic energy when the flywheel does positive work (compression) on the gas during figures 1-5.
Hope this helps.
edited Jun 14 at 15:15
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answered Jun 14 at 14:29
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@Thomas Fritsch I have no objection to your edit. But I have seen quoting both in my original format as well a in the yellow highlighted text you used in editing my answer. Can you point to some "policy" on this site that gives priority to the one over the other?
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 0:02
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Well, there's the Markdown help page and this meta.SE question. I'm not aware of any policies specifically saying that one should not format quotations as bold italicized body text, but I do wonder where you picked up the idea of doing so. At least I haven't seen anyone else doing it. Personally, I would not recommend it, since it's kind of ugly and hard to read, and also doesn't clearly indicate that the text is meant to be a quote.
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– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 12:28
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I saw it used when I first joined the exchange. Ugly? That's a matter of opinion. How do you highlight the text. Don't see a tool for that on the answer tools
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 13:18
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You mean to make a block quote? Select the text and click the big quote mark (“) icon in the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Q. Or just manually type a>at the beginning of the paragraph. It's all on the Markdown editing help page.
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– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 15:11
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OK I'll give it a try. I should add, however, I've been using this format for nearly a year and this is the first time I can recall it being objected to (edited).
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 15:43
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show 1 more comment
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By adding flywheel makes engine to take more power to spin the flywheel because of its huge mass. Efficiency of the engine drops very low. I can only see more burden than smoothness.
The burden is temporary in order to get the flywheel going. Once it gets going the stored rotational kinetic energy reduces the energy required by the engine. Refer to the figures below.
A flywheel is designed to efficiently store rotational kinetic energy. It resists changes in rpm by virtue of its rotational moment of inertia. The stored energy is proportional to the square of its rpm and proportional to its moment of inertia.
The stored rotational kinetic energy in the flywheel helps to keep it rotating thereby reducing the combustion energy required from the engine. The power stroke of the piston/cylinder, which follows figure 5 when the flywheel returns to its position in figure 1 (to start the compression stroke), is only needed to make up for the relatively small loss of rotational kinetic energy when the flywheel does positive work (compression) on the gas during figures 1-5.
Hope this helps.
edited Jun 14 at 15:15
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By adding flywheel makes engine to take more power to spin the flywheel because of its huge mass. Efficiency of the engine drops very low. I can only see more burden than smoothness.
The burden is temporary in order to get the flywheel going. Once it gets going the stored rotational kinetic energy reduces the energy required by the engine. Refer to the figures below.
A flywheel is designed to efficiently store rotational kinetic energy. It resists changes in rpm by virtue of its rotational moment of inertia. The stored energy is proportional to the square of its rpm and proportional to its moment of inertia.
The stored rotational kinetic energy in the flywheel helps to keep it rotating thereby reducing the combustion energy required from the engine. The power stroke of the piston/cylinder, which follows figure 5 when the flywheel returns to its position in figure 1 (to start the compression stroke), is only needed to make up for the relatively small loss of rotational kinetic energy when the flywheel does positive work (compression) on the gas during figures 1-5.
Hope this helps.
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@Thomas Fritsch I have no objection to your edit. But I have seen quoting both in my original format as well a in the yellow highlighted text you used in editing my answer. Can you point to some "policy" on this site that gives priority to the one over the other?
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 0:02
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Well, there's the Markdown help page and this meta.SE question. I'm not aware of any policies specifically saying that one should not format quotations as bold italicized body text, but I do wonder where you picked up the idea of doing so. At least I haven't seen anyone else doing it. Personally, I would not recommend it, since it's kind of ugly and hard to read, and also doesn't clearly indicate that the text is meant to be a quote.
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– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 12:28
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I saw it used when I first joined the exchange. Ugly? That's a matter of opinion. How do you highlight the text. Don't see a tool for that on the answer tools
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 13:18
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You mean to make a block quote? Select the text and click the big quote mark (“) icon in the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Q. Or just manually type a>at the beginning of the paragraph. It's all on the Markdown editing help page.
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– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 15:11
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OK I'll give it a try. I should add, however, I've been using this format for nearly a year and this is the first time I can recall it being objected to (edited).
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 15:43
|
show 1 more comment
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@Thomas Fritsch I have no objection to your edit. But I have seen quoting both in my original format as well a in the yellow highlighted text you used in editing my answer. Can you point to some "policy" on this site that gives priority to the one over the other?
$endgroup$
– Bob D
Jun 15 at 0:02
$begingroup$
Well, there's the Markdown help page and this meta.SE question. I'm not aware of any policies specifically saying that one should not format quotations as bold italicized body text, but I do wonder where you picked up the idea of doing so. At least I haven't seen anyone else doing it. Personally, I would not recommend it, since it's kind of ugly and hard to read, and also doesn't clearly indicate that the text is meant to be a quote.
$endgroup$
– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 12:28
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I saw it used when I first joined the exchange. Ugly? That's a matter of opinion. How do you highlight the text. Don't see a tool for that on the answer tools
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 13:18
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You mean to make a block quote? Select the text and click the big quote mark (“) icon in the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Q. Or just manually type a>at the beginning of the paragraph. It's all on the Markdown editing help page.
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– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 15:11
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OK I'll give it a try. I should add, however, I've been using this format for nearly a year and this is the first time I can recall it being objected to (edited).
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 15:43
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@Thomas Fritsch I have no objection to your edit. But I have seen quoting both in my original format as well a in the yellow highlighted text you used in editing my answer. Can you point to some "policy" on this site that gives priority to the one over the other?
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 0:02
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@Thomas Fritsch I have no objection to your edit. But I have seen quoting both in my original format as well a in the yellow highlighted text you used in editing my answer. Can you point to some "policy" on this site that gives priority to the one over the other?
$endgroup$
– Bob D
Jun 15 at 0:02
$begingroup$
Well, there's the Markdown help page and this meta.SE question. I'm not aware of any policies specifically saying that one should not format quotations as bold italicized body text, but I do wonder where you picked up the idea of doing so. At least I haven't seen anyone else doing it. Personally, I would not recommend it, since it's kind of ugly and hard to read, and also doesn't clearly indicate that the text is meant to be a quote.
$endgroup$
– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 12:28
$begingroup$
Well, there's the Markdown help page and this meta.SE question. I'm not aware of any policies specifically saying that one should not format quotations as bold italicized body text, but I do wonder where you picked up the idea of doing so. At least I haven't seen anyone else doing it. Personally, I would not recommend it, since it's kind of ugly and hard to read, and also doesn't clearly indicate that the text is meant to be a quote.
$endgroup$
– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 12:28
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I saw it used when I first joined the exchange. Ugly? That's a matter of opinion. How do you highlight the text. Don't see a tool for that on the answer tools
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 13:18
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I saw it used when I first joined the exchange. Ugly? That's a matter of opinion. How do you highlight the text. Don't see a tool for that on the answer tools
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 13:18
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You mean to make a block quote? Select the text and click the big quote mark (
“) icon in the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Q. Or just manually type a > at the beginning of the paragraph. It's all on the Markdown editing help page.$endgroup$
– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 15:11
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You mean to make a block quote? Select the text and click the big quote mark (
“) icon in the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Q. Or just manually type a > at the beginning of the paragraph. It's all on the Markdown editing help page.$endgroup$
– Ilmari Karonen
Jun 15 at 15:11
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OK I'll give it a try. I should add, however, I've been using this format for nearly a year and this is the first time I can recall it being objected to (edited).
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– Bob D
Jun 15 at 15:43
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OK I'll give it a try. I should add, however, I've been using this format for nearly a year and this is the first time I can recall it being objected to (edited).
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– Bob D
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show 1 more comment
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A flywheel requires energy to spin up, but can also return that energy when needed. In a one piston engine, some energy from the combustion is used to accelerate the flywheel. However, in the compression phase, it returns some of its energy to the piston and helps retaining the rotational speed. Because the speed doesn't drop as much, the next combustion doesn't have to accelerate the flywheel that much. The exchange of energy from and to the flywheel cancel each other out, so it doesn't impact efficiency, but through its rotational inertia it helps keeping the rotational velocity more constant.
answered Jun 14 at 14:09
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Exposed flywheels are often used to drive flat belts as well, often with two side-by-side to enable a clutching system.
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– Solar Mike
Jun 14 at 14:19
add a comment |
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A flywheel requires energy to spin up, but can also return that energy when needed. In a one piston engine, some energy from the combustion is used to accelerate the flywheel. However, in the compression phase, it returns some of its energy to the piston and helps retaining the rotational speed. Because the speed doesn't drop as much, the next combustion doesn't have to accelerate the flywheel that much. The exchange of energy from and to the flywheel cancel each other out, so it doesn't impact efficiency, but through its rotational inertia it helps keeping the rotational velocity more constant.
answered Jun 14 at 14:09
gfrodogfrodo
861 bronze badge
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Exposed flywheels are often used to drive flat belts as well, often with two side-by-side to enable a clutching system.
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– Solar Mike
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A flywheel requires energy to spin up, but can also return that energy when needed. In a one piston engine, some energy from the combustion is used to accelerate the flywheel. However, in the compression phase, it returns some of its energy to the piston and helps retaining the rotational speed. Because the speed doesn't drop as much, the next combustion doesn't have to accelerate the flywheel that much. The exchange of energy from and to the flywheel cancel each other out, so it doesn't impact efficiency, but through its rotational inertia it helps keeping the rotational velocity more constant.
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A flywheel requires energy to spin up, but can also return that energy when needed. In a one piston engine, some energy from the combustion is used to accelerate the flywheel. However, in the compression phase, it returns some of its energy to the piston and helps retaining the rotational speed. Because the speed doesn't drop as much, the next combustion doesn't have to accelerate the flywheel that much. The exchange of energy from and to the flywheel cancel each other out, so it doesn't impact efficiency, but through its rotational inertia it helps keeping the rotational velocity more constant.
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Exposed flywheels are often used to drive flat belts as well, often with two side-by-side to enable a clutching system.
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Exposed flywheels are often used to drive flat belts as well, often with two side-by-side to enable a clutching system.
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– Solar Mike
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Exposed flywheels are often used to drive flat belts as well, often with two side-by-side to enable a clutching system.
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– Solar Mike
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Exposed flywheels are often used to drive flat belts as well, often with two side-by-side to enable a clutching system.
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A steam or internal combustion engine delivers energy in strokes as each cylinder in turn is filled with steam or burns its portion of fuel. But the load driven by the engine should usually rather be rotating at a steady speed than moving in strokes.
The flywheel does this job. It consumes the energy from cylinders as they release it -- in strokes, by speeding up -- and gives it to the driven mechanisms the rest of the time -- by gradually slowing down. The faster the flywheel rotates, the steadier its speed becomes because its kinetic energy is $Jomega^2/2$ and the portions added by cylinders (which are (roughly) constant) become lesser fractions of it.
A side benefit of this is that the control mechanic of engine's own cylinders can be driven by the flywheel, too. A drawback of this is that a separate "starter" facility is now required to drive it while the flywheel is not yet moving.
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A steam or internal combustion engine delivers energy in strokes as each cylinder in turn is filled with steam or burns its portion of fuel. But the load driven by the engine should usually rather be rotating at a steady speed than moving in strokes.
The flywheel does this job. It consumes the energy from cylinders as they release it -- in strokes, by speeding up -- and gives it to the driven mechanisms the rest of the time -- by gradually slowing down. The faster the flywheel rotates, the steadier its speed becomes because its kinetic energy is $Jomega^2/2$ and the portions added by cylinders (which are (roughly) constant) become lesser fractions of it.
A side benefit of this is that the control mechanic of engine's own cylinders can be driven by the flywheel, too. A drawback of this is that a separate "starter" facility is now required to drive it while the flywheel is not yet moving.
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A steam or internal combustion engine delivers energy in strokes as each cylinder in turn is filled with steam or burns its portion of fuel. But the load driven by the engine should usually rather be rotating at a steady speed than moving in strokes.
The flywheel does this job. It consumes the energy from cylinders as they release it -- in strokes, by speeding up -- and gives it to the driven mechanisms the rest of the time -- by gradually slowing down. The faster the flywheel rotates, the steadier its speed becomes because its kinetic energy is $Jomega^2/2$ and the portions added by cylinders (which are (roughly) constant) become lesser fractions of it.
A side benefit of this is that the control mechanic of engine's own cylinders can be driven by the flywheel, too. A drawback of this is that a separate "starter" facility is now required to drive it while the flywheel is not yet moving.
answered Jun 15 at 0:16
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A steam or internal combustion engine delivers energy in strokes as each cylinder in turn is filled with steam or burns its portion of fuel. But the load driven by the engine should usually rather be rotating at a steady speed than moving in strokes.
The flywheel does this job. It consumes the energy from cylinders as they release it -- in strokes, by speeding up -- and gives it to the driven mechanisms the rest of the time -- by gradually slowing down. The faster the flywheel rotates, the steadier its speed becomes because its kinetic energy is $Jomega^2/2$ and the portions added by cylinders (which are (roughly) constant) become lesser fractions of it.
A side benefit of this is that the control mechanic of engine's own cylinders can be driven by the flywheel, too. A drawback of this is that a separate "starter" facility is now required to drive it while the flywheel is not yet moving.
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