Vehicle Propulsion Systems Introduction to Modeling and Optimization /

• Main Authors: Guzzella, Lino (Author), Sciarretta, Antonio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2013.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Transportation.; Electric power production.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Automotive engineering.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Automotive Engineering.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Energy Technology.

This text provides an introduction to the mathematical modeling and subsequent optimization of vehicle propulsion systems and their supervisory control algorithms. Automobiles are responsible for a substantial part of the world's consumption of primary energy, mostly fossil liquid hydrocarbons...