In this paper, an analytical model for the prediction of the thermal performance of a motorcycle exhaust-pipe system has been developed using a thermal resistance network across the exhaust-pipe tube and heat shield structure. For the selected exhaust-pipe geometric and operating conditions used in this work, the variations of the pipe and shield surface temperatures are calculated by employing proper heat transfer/thermal resistances. An experiment was performed on a bare and on insulated exhaust-pipes to develop the thermal map for the exhaust-pipe and shield surface temperature distributions for various motorcycle engine operating conditions. In order to investigate the effect of the geometric and operational parameters involved in the system, a local and an overall thermal system analysis has been performed. It was found that for the values of the parameters considered in this work, the thermal effectiveness of the existing exhaust pipe system should be improved in order to meet the rider's thermal comfort requirement constraint.


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    Title :

    Investigation of thermal performance characteristics of a motorcycle exhaust-pipe system


    Additional title:

    Untersuchung der Wärmeleistungsdaten des Auspuffrohrsystems eines Motorrades


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2006


    Size :

    20 Seiten, 29 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 9 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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