Wankel
Engine
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Wankel engine is an internal combustion engine that produces
rotary motion directly. Invented by the German engineer Felix
Wankel, who completed his first design in 1954,it became widely
used in automobiles and airplanes. A triangular rotor with
spring-loaded sealing plates at its apexes rotates eccentrically
inside a cylinder, while the three combustion chambers formed
between the sides of the rotor and the walls of the cylinder
successively draw in, compress, and ignite a fuel-and-air
mixture. The Wankel engine is simpler in principle, and more
powerful weight for weight, but more difficult to cool, then
a conventional reciprocating engine.
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