Vehicle Powertrain Systems: Integration and Optimization (Hardcover)

The powertrain is at the heart of vehicle design; the engine – whether it is a conventional, hybrid or electric design – provides the motive power, which is then managed and controlled through the transmission and final drive components. The overall powertrain system therefore defines the dynamic performance and character of the vehicle.

The design of the powertrain has conventionally been tackled by analyzing each of the subsystems individually and the individual components, for example, engine, transmission and driveline have received considerable attention in textbooks over the past decades. The key theme of this book is to take a systems approach – to look at the integration of the components so that the whole powertrain system meets the demands of overall energy efficiency and good drivability.

Vehicle Powertrain Systems provides a thorough description and analysis of all the powertrain components and then treats them together so that the overall performance of the vehicle can be understood and calculated. The text is well supported by practical problems and worked examples. Extensive use is made of the MATLAB^(R)  software and many example programmes for vehicle calculations are provided in the text.

Key features:

• Structured approach to explaining the fundamentals of powertrain engineering
• Integration of powertrain components into overall vehicle design
• Emphasis on practical vehicle design issues
• Extensive use of practical problems and worked examples
• Provision of MATLAB^(R) programmes for the reader to use in vehicle performance calculations

This comprehensive and integrated analysis of vehicle powertrain engineering provides an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate automotive engineering students and is a useful reference for practicing engineers in the vehicle industry

動力系統是車輛設計的核心；引擎（無論是傳統、混合還是電動設計）提供動力，然後通過變速器和最終驅動組件進行管理和控制。因此，整個動力系統確定了車輛的動態性能和特性。

傳統上，動力系統的設計是通過分析每個子系統以及各個組件來解決的，例如引擎、變速器和傳動系統在過去幾十年的教科書中受到了相當大的關注。本書的主題是採用系統方法，即從整合組件的角度來看待動力系統，以滿足整體能源效率和良好可驅動性的要求。

《車輛動力系統》對所有動力系統組件進行了詳細的描述和分析，然後將它們一起處理，以便了解和計算整個車輛的性能。該文本得到了實際問題和實例的豐富支持。大量使用了MATLAB®軟件，並在文本中提供了許多用於車輛計算的示例程序。

主要特點：
- 結構化方法解釋動力系統工程的基礎知識
- 將動力系統組件整合到整體車輛設計中
- 強調實際車輛設計問題
- 大量使用實際問題和實例
- 提供MATLAB®程序供讀者在車輛性能計算中使用

這本全面且整合的車輛動力系統工程分析為本科和研究生汽車工程學生提供了寶貴的資源，並且是車輛行業從業工程師的有用參考資料。