Wankel engine

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The Wankel engine boasts an innovative internal combustion design that leverages an eccentric rotary layout to transform pressure into dynamic rotational motion. By diverging from the conventional reciprocating piston designs, this engine offers several key advantages: it is remarkably simple, incredibly smooth, compact, capable of achieving extremely high revolutions per minute, and boasts a superior power-to-weight ratio. This exceptional design has earned the Wankel engine its nickname as a rotary engine, although this moniker also applies to other distinctively different designs that operate on entirely separate principles. In stark contrast to traditional piston engines, which feature pistons that rapidly change direction, all components of the Wankel engine rotate in a unified direction. The four-stroke cycle unfolds within a constantly moving combustion chamber situated between an oval-like epitrochoid-shaped housing and a rotor resembling a Reuleaux triangle with sides that are slightly flattened.