I think you could have two openings side-by-side. You can only open or close the right opening for instance. It's like a feedback loop, in that you're sending air into a feedback, but it only travels the short distance, to make the short snake curl. That means that inside the engine, in the...
To be honest, I believe opening and closing it at the right timing points, would allow the opening to be completely closed, since it would generate a tornado, and a tornado is equivalent to a vacuum, so it would have to be timed so that dying fuel when initially closed, and open before...
I was wondering if periodically closing the air intake during a burn, when closed, it generates a vacuum on dying burnt fuel, but the concept seems to me that it's the same as rotation in a circle, simple harmonic motion, or a piston going up and down, and if that could be used in an engine.
In response to the person who mentions the shape of the shock waves. If everything occurs in the area as in the picture and the vertical pipe -is not long-. Well, the explosion would make a diamond shape pattern between the pistons, in terms of the shock wave pattern. However, I don't believe...
Maybe, but maybe it needs some additional work. This is the paper that mentioned the shock front: https://www.icheme.org/~/media/Documents/Subject%20Groups/Safety_Loss_Prevention/Hazards%20Archive/III/III-Paper-06.pdf
And yes an explosion can distort metal. You're not walking on your right leg.
I designed a cylinder for an opposed force engine, the two pistons are half-hemispheres, that move laterally to the direction of the up-down cylinder (the drawing should show two pipes both perpendicular at the level where the two pistons are to accomodate their lateral movement). My question...
