Screen LibraryStirling cycle engines : inner workings and design /
Key features of the book: Expectations are re-set to realistic goals; The formulation throughout highlights what the thermodynamic processes of different engines have in common rather than what distinguishes them; Design by scaling is extended, corroborated, reduced to the use of charts and fully il...
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Wiley,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118818428 |
| Summary: |
Key features of the book: Expectations are re-set to realistic goals; The formulation throughout highlights what the thermodynamic processes of different engines have in common rather than what distinguishes them; Design by scaling is extended, corroborated, reduced to the use of charts and fully illustrated; Results of extensive computer modelling are condensed down to high-resolution Nomograms; Worked examples feature throughout. Prime movers (and coolers) operating on the Stirling cycle are of increasing interest to industry, the military (stealth submarines) and space agencies. This book |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxii, 272 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781118818411 1118818415 9781118818404 1118818407 9781118818428 1118818423 |
| Index Number: | TJ765 |
| CLC: | TK17 |
| 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 |