as i'm sure you're aware, AVWEB, John Deakin, and George Braly (both of whom i've met...) are very well respected in the aviation community.
as you can infer from that GAMI/P&W, not everything scales as well as we'd like, and there are differences between what happens in very large, very slow, relatively low-compression engines and what happens in our small, fast, relatively higher compression engines.
the relationship between power, EGT, and CHT is at times nonobvious but it's also one that's been around for a while. the GAMI/P&W chart looked pretty much like i thought it would from hearing Jake (and others) describe the dyno tuning relationships. still cool to see it in chart form, tho...
Can we get a glossary? :-)
LOP
ROP
TBO
MP
OAT
JPI
one reason we don't run Lean OF Peak on the ground is that in that region, it's hard to keep oxides of nitrogen (NOx) under control without a catalyst, which our cars (mostly) and aircraft (due to leaded fuel among other things) don't have.
the various lean-burn engine management systems and - lately - the gasoline direct-injection - engines are all attempts to burn in the borderline Lean Of Peak region.
Diesels always operate in an excess of air and nowadays they are able to achieve their very high efficiencies and power levels through the use of very large amounts of exhaust-gas recirculation. recirculating exhaust gas (basically inert) reduces the excess of oxygen that can lead to high combustion temps (high EGT...) and high NOx levels.
it's also hard to get an engine running LOP to accellerate. aircraft spend A LOT of time at cruise, but the automotive power cycle is far more transient...
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