Analysis of repeatability of Diesel engine acceleration

The analysis of combustion non-repeatability in the dynamical working conditions of a Diesel engine is presented. In the frame of statistical analysis, applied to a number of acceleration trails, basic determinants such as standard square deviation, skewness, and kurtosis have been calculated for the mean indicated pressure (MIP). The methods of return maps, delay phase portrait reconstruction, recurrence plots and quantification recurrence analysis have been also used to analyze a single chosen course of the measured pressure starting from the idle run of engine, through its acceleration process and ending on a stable engine run with a certain velocity. The results show that recurrence techniques are able to identify various phases of the engine non-stationary work.