As Ryan from the motorcycle-focused YouTube channel FortNine explains, the development of powerful, reliable two-stroke engine construction is directly linked to the onset and end of World War II ...

Some two-stroke engines try to negate this by having offset transfer ports, specially-shaped pistons, and a specially-tuned exhaust that sends pressure waves back towards the exhaust port.

P. H. Epstein, Rolf D. Reitz, D. E. Foster, Computations of a Two-Stroke Engine Cylinder and Port Scavenging Flows, SAE Transactions, Vol. 100, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ...

Measurement using a three-dimensional anemometrictester was made for the gas flow inside the cylinder of a two-stroke engine while the shape of the transfer port was modified. The relationship between ...

Read about two stroke engines and how they relate to hybrid cars in Sport Compact Car magazine.