Power Requirements of An Accelerating Vehicle

1. Power Requirements of An Accelerating Vehicle P M V Subbarao Professor Mechanical Engineering Department Role of Inertial on Sizing of A Prime Mover….

2. Steady State Vehicle Demand Vs Available Effort

3. Inertial or Transient Forces • Transient forces are primarily comprised of acceleration related forces where a change in velocity is required. • Various Transient Forces: • The rotational inertia (FI ) • the translational inertia (Fma) • A rotational mass used in a translating vehicle both rotational inertia but also translational inertia.

4. Overall Inertial Resistance of A vehicle where: FIR = inertia resistance [N]         meff-vehicle = Vehicle mass + Equivalent mass of rotating parts [kg] a = car acceleration [m/s2], (from 0 to 100 km/h in: 6 s (4.63 m/s2), 18 s (1.543 m/s2)) Instantaneous power requirement of an accelerating vehicle

5. Effect of Velocity on Instantaneous Power Demand

6. Effective Mass of A Vehicle where: mvehicle = Vehicle mass [kg] meq = Equivalent mass of rotating parts [kg] Generatl Rotating Parts: Wheels & Axles Propeller Shaft Transmission gears Engine Crankshaft and camshaft Clutch Flywheel

7. Equivalent Mass of A Wheel Inertial torque due to a Wheel • = angular accelerationk = radius of gyration Equivalent Mass of A Wheel wheels and axles = 78% of total polar inertia propeller shaft = 1.5% Engine = 6% & Flywheel and clutch =14.5%

8. General Equation of Equivalent Mass of Rotating Parts Therefore the equivalent mass of all rotational parts including losses is represented as:

9. Required Torque & Power at Wheels Instantaneous Tractive Effort demanded by a vehicle :

10. Vehicle Dynamics Model

11. Transmission System Model

12. Torque Requirements Model

13. Engine Model

14. Pune Urban Drive Cycle

15. Engine RPM during Urban Driving Cycle

16. Engine Fuel Consumption During Urban Driving Cycle

17. Kinetic Energy Available during Braking per Driving Cycle 12041kJ

18. Inertial Energy in A Sub Cycle Duration : 450 to 475 sec Inertial Energy, J Time in seconds

19. Inertial Energy in A Sub Cycle Duration :1105 to 1139 sec

20. Fuel Savings due to Idling Logic

21. Idling Engine During Braking : Fuel Consumption

22. Fuel Consumption over Pune Drive Cycle

23. Performance of an Ideal Engine for Unit Distance Travel by Vehicle Ideal cycle work to be provided by A Powering Engine: The speed of the engine for a given vehicle speed in km/h is: Time available for completion of a cycle (Four stroke Model for Engine): Engine Fuel Consumption for per Cycle

24. Engine model for Light Vehicles in 2020

25. Braking Methods Vs Fuel Economy • A planned gradual stop, say at a traffic light where you would prefer saving fuel over engine braking - you may press the clutch and / or shift to neutral and brake simultaneously. • Caveat - if you are using fuel cut-off, you need not shift to neutral or press clutch. Just use clutch to avoid engine stalling. • Slowing down to slightly lower speeds, say while abandoning an overtaking maneuver - Clutch is not required as long as you don't drop too low on engine speed. • Panic braking from high speed to stop or very slow speed - don't touch the clutch even if you risk stalling the engine and use maximum engine braking.

26. Stop-and-go braking like in bumper to bumper traffic - press clutch and brake to avoid engine stalling. • Track / rally circuit - brakes first and eyes on tachometer. As soon as you close on in-gear idle (which you should know better than your birthday if you are racing), press the clutch and downshift gears. Re-engage clutch as soon as you have finished shifting. • Coasting downhill - brakes first and use clutch only to shift gears.

27. Braking Vs Safety • The driver is trying to achieve two things by brakingSlow down the vehicle or bring it to stop within a desirable time span so that everyone is safe • As long as the first one is achieved, avoid engine stall • If you do not apply clutch while braking, vehicle gets more braking assistance due to engine resistance.

28. You are trying to slowdown the vehicle from say 80kmph or more for a normal stop • At 80kmph or more you would normally be driving in top gear. • Your engine is not going to stall in the same gear till you come down to say 40kmph. • In this case apply brake without clutch till you reach that speed and then move to the lower gear(usually 4th) and release the clutch. • Keep braking till you reach around 25 kmph and apply clutch and bring the vehicle to stop. • The second part is applicable if you were driving at less than say 50kmph. • You don't need to change the gear. • Keep applying the brakes and apply clutch when you feel engine running too slow.

29. Emergency stop/slowdown at any speed • Just apply brake without clutch. • You need maximum braking even at the cost of engine stalling. • Even if you are at a very high speed (100kmph or more), lowering the gear is not a great idea. • Disengaged clutch (even if it is for very short duration) would lower your total braking effectiveness.

30. Driving downhill • Lower the gear to a comfortable one (usual theory advises the same gear in which you would go uphill at the same place. • However my experience say it would be too slow, you may want to run in the next higher gear) and apply brakes without clutch. • This will help to avoid over heating of your brakes.

31. Braking N Safety • In general, if we're talking normal driving situations the rule of thumb you should follow is to keep the car in gear for the most amount of time. • Downshifting is good, but most people do not downshift when stopping. • This can either just be laziness, but it's also driven by the fact that when you need to slow down reasonably fast you might just not have enough time to row through the gears.  • Best way to do is, brake in gear until the car about the slowest speed for whatever gear it is in, then clutch in, go into neutral and keep braking further.