Two-stroke internal combustion engine

A two-stroke internal combustion engine comprising:

• a cylinder having a cylinder jacket having a bore therein;
• said cylinder receiving a piston and having at least one injection nozzle comprising a multi-hole low-pressure nozzle inserted in the bore in the cylinder jacket;
• said cylinder during operation of the engine receiving air therein from one or more channels in a flushing airflow that flows in a main flow direction adjacent the bore in the cylinder jacket;
• wherein the multi-hole low-pressure nozzle comprises a nozzle plate with nozzle openings arranged within an enveloping circle so as to form a common nozzle jet;
• said nozzle jet injecting fuel into the cylinder at a nozzle-jet velocity with an opening angle (α) of injected fuel that is dependent on an inclination of a nozzle axis relative to an orifice surface of the bore;
• wherein the nozzle is positioned above the one or more channels and injects fuel into the cylinder only above the piston, and
• the opening angle (α) is angled away from the cylinder jacket by an angle great enough that fuel injected by the nozzle jet is prevented from being applied to the cylinder jacket;
• and
• wherein the nozzle is supported in a position and orientation such that a velocity vector of the nozzle jet velocity in a direction of the nozzle axis combined with a velocity vector of the flushing air flow in the main flow direction results in a resulting vector for a total flow of a fuel-air mixture from the fuel injected by the nozzle jet and the airflow that is at an inclination angle (γ) relative to the cylinder jacket that is not greater than 20°.