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

• Autore: Organ Allan J
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : , : John Wiley & Sons Inc., , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 621.4/2
• Soggetto topico: Stirling engines - Design and construction; Stirling engines
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Stirling cycle engines
• ISBN: 1-118-81841-5; 1-118-81842-3; 1-118-81840-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910139029403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II