Stirling cycle engines : inner workings and design / Allan J. Organ.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organ, Allan J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stirling engines--Design and construction.

Stirling engines.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley and Sons Incorporated, 2014.

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Organ, Allan J. Stirling cycle engines.

ISBN:

9781118818404

OCLC:

905746866

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.