Stirling cycle engines inner workings and design / Allan J. Organ.
| Author/creator | Organ, Allan J. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : Wiley, 2014. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Stirling myth - and Stirling reality -- Réflexions sur le cicle de Carnot -- What Carnot efficiency? -- Equivalence conditions for volume variations -- The optimum vs optimization -- Design correlations - heat transfer -- A question of adiabaticity -- More adiabaticity -- Dynamic similarity -- Intrinsic similarity -- Getting started -- Fasttrack gas path design -- Flexiscale -- Rescale -- Less steam, more traction - Stirling engine design without the hot air -- Heat transfer correlations - from the horse's mouth -- Wire mesh regenerator - back-of-envelope sums -- Son of Schmidt -- H2 vs He vs air -- The hot-air engine -- Ultimate Lagrange formulation -- Appendix A-1: The reciprocating carnot cycle -- Appendix A-2: Determination of V2 and V4 - polytropic processes -- Appendix A-3: Design charts - nomograms -- Appendix A-4: Kinematics of lever-crank drive. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Organ, Allan J. Stirling cycle engines Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014 9781118818435 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013033015 |
| ISBN | 9781118818411 (ePub) |
| ISBN | 9781118818404 (Adobe PDF) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |