Rotary engine (disambiguation)

A rotary engine is a type of internal combustion piston engine used in some early aircraft, motorcycles, and cars. Virtually the whole engine rotates about a fixed crankshaft.

Rotary engine may also refer to:

• Pistonless rotary engine, a pistonless internal combustion engines
• Turbine, a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow
• Wankel engine, a common type of pistonless rotary engine used in some NSU Motorenwerke AG (NSU) and Mazda cars
• Windmill, a rotary engine that extracts energy from wind
• Waterwheel, a rotary engine that extracts energy from water

See also

• Radial engine, an internal combustion piston engines with a fixed engine block of radially-mounted cylinders driving a rotating crankshaft