check out the magazine articles at the bottom of the page.
http://www.theoldone.com/articles/
it's interesting to read them in chronological order and realize that Larry was actually quite wrong about what was occurring in the combustion chamber early on. he originally thought that he was creating a homogenous A/F mix. he was actually creating stratified charge through the centrifuge effect ( ie - some of his critics were more correct than he was, it's just that nobody expected that 20:1 A/F would burn if the flame front was started in a richer portion of the charge ). i think ( although he doesn't say this ) that one of the reasons his hypothetical 'optimum' chamber has plugs at each end of the trench is because he expects the charge to be richer at the edges of the bore and leaner in the center.
i don't think Larry ever made any comment about his chamber design limiting "crossflow" but i doubt VERY much that that little tidbit slipped by him.
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H.H. Goddard, Human Efficiency (1920)
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