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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organ, Allan J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stirling engines--Design and construction.

Stirling engines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Some 200 years after the original invention, internal design of a Stirling engine has come to be considered a specialist task, calling for extensive experience and for access to sophisticated computer modelling. The low parts-count of the type is negated by the complexity of the gas processes by which heat is converted to work. Design is perceived as problematic largely because those interactions are neither intuitively evident, nor capable of being made visible by laboratory experiment. There can be little doubt that the situation stands in the way of wider application of this elegant conc

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118818411

1118818415

9781118818428

1118818423

9781118818404

1118818407

OCLC:

863038967