We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

In the video after the break, [Brick Technology] uses LEGO to gain some practical insight into the world of piston engine design, from single-cylinder all the way up to radial twelve-cylinder engines.

For example, check out this Ford EcoBoost turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 with an exploded piston. This engine came out of a 2012 Ford F-150 with over 200,000 miles. The owner bought the truck at ...

Both pistons and valves move in and out of a space at the top of engine cylinders known as the “combustion chamber”.

Porsche's new patented six stroke engine might not be a thing of reality yet, but the new technology is still very ...

The Piston Simulation function models the circular motion of a piston within a cylinder. It involves a chain of nonlinear functions. The response C is cycle time (the time it takes to complete one ...

When you're at an airport and see propeller aircraft, you likely think it is powered by a piston engine. This is usually true among smaller planes, like the Cessa 172 Skyhawk and the Piper Archer ...

When an engine is all the way off, none of its processes are running. The pistons in the cylinders are completely stopped and no energy is being generated. When an engine is idling, on the other ...