KONMOT - 2018 : Scientific Automotive Conference, September 13th-14th, Krakow, Poland : book of abstracts

Editors:

• Władysław Mitianiec,
• Marcin Noga

Abstract

Contemporary world requires ecological solutions in motorization area, low energy consumption, safety and easy exploitation. The role of engineers and scientists is the realization and managing of the designing and exploitation processes within that area. The growing exploitation and ecological demands set successive challenges for constructors and scientists in the area of automobiles, powertrains and exploitation. Particularly essential is finding solutions decreasing fuel consumption and emission of the exhaust gases harmful components as well as application of the alternative powertrains such as hybrid and electric. The cyclical motorization conference KONMOT since 1976 is a place of meeting of outstanding scientists and engineers from country and abroad, raising contemporary problems of motorization with the possibility of publishing results on the international area. In 2018 automotive conference KONMOT organized celebrated the 42nd anniversary. It was organized by the Institute of Automobiles and Internal Combustion Engines in Cracow University of Technology (CUT). The first conference was held in Kroscienko-Szczawnica on 20-23 September 1976. The motto, that guided the deliberations, was "Progress in Research of Motor Vehicle." The conference was a nationwide and attended by many representatives of technical universities, research and development centres and plants related to the automotive industry. In the years 2000, 2004 and 2008, a conference was called KONMOT-AUTOPROGRES, the main organizer was the Cracow University of Technology. In 2002 and 2006 the main organizer of the conference was Automotive Industry Institute in Warsaw and the conference was called AUTOPROGRES-KONMOT. Papers presented on every two years conference KONMOT were published in the journal issued by the Polish Academy of Sciences “Portfolio of Science and the Problem Committee on Motorization” or published by the Technical Journal issued by CUT, as well as in the form of monographs. Some of the conferences were dedicated to the jubilee of work of outstanding scientific specialists in automotive area. Apart from the official agenda for the conference the gala dinners were organized for all participants, often headline performances by famous artists were important point of such meetings. The penultimate conference KONMOT was held on 22-23 September 2016 in Cracow under the slogan "Development of vehicles - construction, operation, ecology and safety." The organized scientific conference KONMOT-2018 as in previous years, provided an excellent opportunity to showcase of achievements of researchers and scientists and exchange of experience for a wide range of activity in research and development centres, industrial areas and universities. With regards to the current conference we are delighted to come up with one hundred sixty three (163) contributed research papers selected from the proceedings, as an output of the Scientific Conference KONMOT 2018 on Automotive Progress held in Cracow (Poland) from September 13-14, 2018. All papers were reviewed by two scientific researchers according to the requirements of IOP. This conference marks as previous meetings in a highly successful series of conference devoted to this important technical field. Conference KONMOT gathers industrial and scientific communities in the field design, experimental research and modelling of all scientific and industrial sectors of automotive branch. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including design and modelling of suspension, traction and new driving systems in automobiles, method of vehicles exploitation or tribology. A wide part of the conference was devoted to the electromobility as a new trend in transportation. New driving systems require new design of engines for better efficiency and lower exhaust gas emission. Most of the papers describe research, experimental investigations and modelling of combustion processes in internal combustion engines. The papers shown during KONMOT 2018 from both the oral presentation and poster sessions are included in this conference volume. They are divided into the following three topic areas: Design and Research of Automobiles, Exploitation of Automobiles and Internal Combustion Engines and Emission. More than one third of the papers are directly concerned with mathematical modelling and numerical simulation in automobiles and internal combustion engines. However, most of papers include experimental and industrial activity. Some of the papers concern applying of special new materials and were included in the Exploitation topic. The conference co-chairmen are grateful to the Scientific Committee and all the reviewers of the papers for their efficient work done in a very short period of time. These proceedings would not have been possible without the tremendous help of Mr Dr Eng. Marcin Noga and Mrs MSc Magdalena Kalarus from the Cracow University of Technology. Thanks also to The CUT Publishing House for preparing of special issue of conference abstracts. Finally, we would like to thank our sponsors for their financial support, without that the conference would not be so attractive for participants, such as Development and Research Centre BOSMAL in Bielsko-Biala, FEV Poland, EC Engineering, Horus-Energia and Polish Scientific Society of Combustion Engines (PTNSS) and others. The logos of our main sponsors are shown below. We invite all participants from whole the world to the next conference KONMOT 2020.