A set of experiments was performed on a motored four-stroke engine measuring the gas phase thermal boundary layer profile adjacent to the cylinder head using speckle interferometry. Speckle interferometry is an optical technique that allows full-field, line-of-sight averaged optical phase shift measurements. These optical phase shift measurements may be interpreted as local temperature values for planar or axisymmetric geometries with ideal gases. For this set of experiments, a small (20-mm diameter) portion of the cylinder head was raised 2 mm above the rest of the surface and used as a test surface. The experiments were performed at two engine speeds, 300 and 750 RPM and at low and high intake swirl levels. Interferograms were obtained at 10 crank angle degree intervals from 70{degree} before top dead center of compression to 60{degree} after top dead center of compression. The results of these measurements are presented as temperature profiles in the boundary layer adjacent to the cylinder head surface, and as surface heat-flux estimates. The results of these measurements are compared to heat-flux-gage measurements in the same motored engine for one of the operating conditions.
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