Stirling cycle engines : inner workings and design /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10799789 |
Table of Contents:
- Stirling myth - and Stirling reality
- Rβeflexions 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.