Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Energy Transfers in Cyclic Heat Engines
- 2 Mechanism Effectiveness and Mechanical Efficiency
- 3 General Efficiency Limits
- 4 Compression Ratio and Shaft Work
- 5 Pressurization Effects
- 6 Charge Effects in Ideal Stirling Engines
- 7 Crossley–Stirling Engines
- 8 Generalized Engine Cycles and Variable Buffer Pressure
- 9 Multi-Workspace Engines and Heat Pumps
- 10 Optimum Stirling Engine Geometry
- 11 Heat Transfer Effects
- Appendix A General Theory of Machines, Effectiveness, and Efficiency
- Appendix B An Ultra Low Temperature Differential Stirling Engine
- Appendix C Derivation of Schmidt Gamma Equations
- References
- Index
1 - Energy Transfers in Cyclic Heat Engines
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Energy Transfers in Cyclic Heat Engines
- 2 Mechanism Effectiveness and Mechanical Efficiency
- 3 General Efficiency Limits
- 4 Compression Ratio and Shaft Work
- 5 Pressurization Effects
- 6 Charge Effects in Ideal Stirling Engines
- 7 Crossley–Stirling Engines
- 8 Generalized Engine Cycles and Variable Buffer Pressure
- 9 Multi-Workspace Engines and Heat Pumps
- 10 Optimum Stirling Engine Geometry
- 11 Heat Transfer Effects
- Appendix A General Theory of Machines, Effectiveness, and Efficiency
- Appendix B An Ultra Low Temperature Differential Stirling Engine
- Appendix C Derivation of Schmidt Gamma Equations
- References
- Index
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- Mechanical Efficiency of Heat Engines , pp. 1 - 11Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007