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Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9781118818404 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781118818435 (cloth)

Print version: Organ, Allan J. Stirling cycle engines. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014. xxii, 272 pages : illustrations ISBN 9781118818435

Includes bibliographical references and index

Stirling myth - and Stirling reality -- Reflexions 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.

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(OCoLC)863038967