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  title info:
    title: Mechanical efficiency of heat engines
  name:
    name part: Senft, J. R. (James R.)
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Energy Transfers in Cyclic Heat Engines -- Heat Engine Diagrams -- The Basic Cyclic Heat Engine -- Buffer Pressure -- Shaft Work -- Buffer Pressure and Energy Transfers -- Mechanism Effectiveness and Mechanical Efficiency -- Mechanism Effectiveness -- Mechanical Efficiency -- Forced Work -- General Efficiency Limits -- The Fundamental Efficiency Theorem -- Stirling Comparison Theorem -- Constant Mechanism Effectiveness -- Optimum Buffer Pressure -- Optimally Buffered Stirling Engines -- The Mechanical Efficiency Limit -- The Brake Thermal Efficiency Limit -- Average Cycle and Optimum Buffer Pressure -- Compression Ratio and Shaft Work -- Limits on Compression Ratio -- Shaft Work Limits -- Temperature Effects -- Proof of the Maximum Shaft Work Theorem -- Pressurization Effects -- System Charging Monomorphic Engines -- Engines Charged Above Buffer Pressure -- Workspace Charging Theorem -- Charge Effects in Ideal Stirling Engines -- Workspace Charging Ideal Stirling Engines -- Efficacious Cycles -- Non-Efficacious Cycles -- Practical Implications -- Crossley-Stirling Engines -- Crossley Cycles -- Crossley Cycle Analysis -- Forced Work of the Crossley Cycle -- The Swept Volume Ratio Problem -- Conclusions -- Generalized Engine Cycles and Variable -- Buffer Pressure -- Parametric Representation -- Average Cycle Pressures -- Variable Buffer Pressure -- Buffer Pressure and Energy Transfers -- Mechanical Efficiency -- Pressurization Effects -- Multi-workspace Engines and Heat Pumps -- Multi-cylinder Engines -- Split-workspace Engines -- Engines with Double-acting Pistons -- Double-acting Split-workspace Engines -- Heat Pumps -- Optimum Stirling Engine Geometry -- The Gamma Engine -- The Schmidt Analysis -- The Schmidt Model for Gamma Engines -- Indicated Work -- Shaft Work -- Parameter Effects on Brake Output -- Optimum Swept Volume Ratio and Phase Angle -- Swept Volume Ratios -- Internal Temperatures -- Indicated Work Maxima -- Phase Angle -- Dead Space Effects -- Alternat…
  note: James R. Senft.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-169) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Heat-engines
  subject:
    topic: Mechanical efficiency
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  classification: TJ255 .S36 2007
  classification: 621.402/5
  identifier: 0521868807 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780521868808 (hardback)
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