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Is it possible to make a 2 stroke 6-cylinder axial engine, wherein 3 pistons serve as air pumps for the opposing cylinder?
It makes sense to me. One piston functions as a pump to force fresh air/fuel mixture into the opposing cylinder where the actual combustion happens.
The first drawing is a diagram of how 1 pair of pumping and combustion cylinders would work.
The second drawing is a top view. O cylinders are pumping cylinders and X cylinders are combustion cylinders, with the arrows pointing in the direction of air flow.
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>>1149848
so it's some convoluted way to put a motor driven turbo on a 2 stroke?
WTF?
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>>1149848
>One piston functions as a pump to force fresh air/fuel mixture into the opposing cylinder
...why?
Cylinders are perfectly capable of pumping their own fuel/exhaust. Near as I can tell, all this arrangement would do is increase pumping losses in the extra manifold, plus add some friction thanks to the extra cylinder and swash plate.
If it's supposed to cram more fuel-air mixture into the cylinder, why would you bother with separate pumps for each piston when a supercharger/turbocharger will do the same thing, better, in less space?
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>>1149923
>motor driven turbo
The word you are looking for is supercharger.
>>1149848
Yes op you could do it but it will be useless If you actually want to use it for some kind of forced induction, witch it seems like thats your idea. The main reason is all of those pistons have the same displacement so you are pumping the same amount of air into each combustion not more. You are loosing half your pistons and will end up with less than half the power. But yes it is technically possible.
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