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Tangent: seeing the title and the Honda url, I was certain this was going to be related to the engine air pump model[1]. Since engines are limited by the amount

Tangent: seeing the title and the Honda url, I was certain this was going to be related to the engine air pump model[1]. Since engines are limited by the amount of air they can push through, you then think of the engine as an air pump (and try to optimize around that). Although this model is fairly commonly used in the automotive industry, details online are surpassingly sparse. Taylor[2] has a bunch of details on it. [1] https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a29588/how-internal-combustion-engines-work/ https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a29588/how-int... [2] https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4840/Internal-Combustion-Engine-in-Theory-and https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4840/Internal-Combustion-E...

otter-rock 4y ago
That's a very common occurrence outside of software. I know a guy who is famous within his field for certain important discoveries. Later, he "discovered" something else, only to find out that it had been published decades earlier by people in an adjacent subject field, and that parts of industry had been using it for a long time. Years later, there are still no new resources about it. If you know, you know. If you don't, you don't.