Faster access than browser!
35 relations: Adiabatic process, Carnot heat engine, Compressor, Cryogenics, Degree (angle), Diesel cycle, Engineer, External combustion engine, Gas, Heat engine, Heat pump, Heat transfer, Intercooler, Isobaric process, Isochoric process, Isothermal process, Otto cycle, Pseudo Stirling cycle, Refrigeration, Regenerative heat exchanger, Rhombic drive, Robert Stirling, Second law of thermodynamics, Simple harmonic motion, Stirling engine, Stirling radioisotope generator, Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines, Thermal efficiency, Thermal expansion, Thermoacoustic heat engine, Thermodynamic cycle, Thermodynamic process, Thermodynamic system, Thermodynamics, Work output.
Adiabatic process
In thermodynamics, an adiabatic process is one that occurs without transfer of heat or matter between a thermodynamic system and its surroundings.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Adiabatic process · See more »
Carnot heat engine
A Carnot heat engine is a theoretical engine that operates on the reversible Carnot cycle.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Carnot heat engine · See more »
Compressor
A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Compressor · See more »
Cryogenics
In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Cryogenics · See more »
Degree (angle)
A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Degree (angle) · See more »
Diesel cycle
The Diesel cycle is a combustion process of a reciprocating internal combustion engine.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Diesel cycle · See more »
Engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Engineer · See more »
External combustion engine
An external combustion engine (EC engine) is a heat engine where a working fluid, contained internally, is heated by combustion in an external source, through the engine wall or a heat exchanger.
New!!: Stirling cycle and External combustion engine · See more »
Gas
Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma).
New!!: Stirling cycle and Gas · See more »
Heat engine
In thermodynamics, a heat engine is a system that converts heat or thermal energy—and chemical energy—to mechanical energy, which can then be used to do mechanical work.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Heat engine · See more »
Heat pump
A heat pump is a device that transfers heat energy from a source of heat to what is called a "heat sink".
New!!: Stirling cycle and Heat pump · See more »
Heat transfer
Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical systems.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Heat transfer · See more »
Intercooler
An intercooler is any mechanical device used to cool a fluid, including liquids or gases, between stages of a multi-stage compression process, typically a heat exchanger that removes waste heat in a gas compressor.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Intercooler · See more »
Isobaric process
An isobaric process is a thermodynamic process in which the pressure stays constant: ΔP.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Isobaric process · See more »
Isochoric process
An isochoric process, also called a constant-volume process, an isovolumetric process, or an isometric process, is a thermodynamic process during which the volume of the closed system undergoing such a process remains constant.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Isochoric process · See more »
Isothermal process
An isothermal process is a change of a system, in which the temperature remains constant: ΔT.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Isothermal process · See more »
Otto cycle
An Otto cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle that describes the functioning of a typical spark ignition piston engine.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Otto cycle · See more »
Pseudo Stirling cycle
The pseudo Stirling cycle, also known as the adiabatic Stirling cycle, is a thermodynamic cycle with an adiabatic working volume and isothermal heater and cooler, in contrast to the Stirling cycle with an isothermal working space.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Pseudo Stirling cycle · See more »
Refrigeration
Refrigeration is a process of removing heat from a low-temperature reservoir and transferring it to a high-temperature reservoir.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Refrigeration · See more »
Regenerative heat exchanger
A regenerative heat exchanger, or more commonly a regenerator, is a type of heat exchanger where heat from the hot fluid is intermittently stored in a thermal storage medium before it is transferred to the cold fluid.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Regenerative heat exchanger · See more »
Rhombic drive
The rhombic drive is a specific method of transferring mechanical energy, or work, used when a single cylinder is used for two separately oscillating pistons.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Rhombic drive · See more »
Robert Stirling
The Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (25 October 1790 – 6 June 1878) was a Scottish clergyman, and inventor of the Stirling engine.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Robert Stirling · See more »
Second law of thermodynamics
The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Second law of thermodynamics · See more »
Simple harmonic motion
In mechanics and physics, simple harmonic motion is a special type of periodic motion or oscillation motion where the restoring force is directly proportional to the displacement and acts in the direction opposite to that of displacement.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Simple harmonic motion · See more »
Stirling engine
A Stirling engine is a heat engine that operates by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas (the working fluid) at different temperatures, such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Stirling engine · See more »
Stirling radioisotope generator
The Stirling radioisotope generator (SRG) is a generator based on a Stirling engine powered by a large radioisotope heater unit.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Stirling radioisotope generator · See more »
Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines
Streamlines, streaklines and pathlines are field lines in a fluid flow.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines · See more »
Thermal efficiency
In thermodynamics, the thermal efficiency (\eta_ \) is a dimensionless performance measure of a device that uses thermal energy, such as an internal combustion engine, a steam turbine or a steam engine, a boiler, furnace, or a refrigerator for example.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Thermal efficiency · See more »
Thermal expansion
Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to change in shape, area, and volume in response to a change in temperature.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Thermal expansion · See more »
Thermoacoustic heat engine
Thermoacoustic engines (sometimes called "TA engines") are thermoacoustic devices which use high-amplitude sound waves to pump heat from one place to another, or conversely use a heat difference to induce high-amplitude sound waves.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Thermoacoustic heat engine · See more »
Thermodynamic cycle
A thermodynamic cycle consists of a linked sequence of thermodynamic processes that involve transfer of heat and work into and out of the system, while varying pressure, temperature, and other state variables within the system, and that eventually returns the system to its initial state.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Thermodynamic cycle · See more »
Thermodynamic process
Classical thermodynamics considers three main kinds of thermodynamic process: change in a system, cycles in a system, and flow processes.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Thermodynamic process · See more »
Thermodynamic system
A thermodynamic system is the material and radiative content of a macroscopic volume in space, that can be adequately described by thermodynamic state variables such as temperature, entropy, internal energy, and pressure.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Thermodynamic system · See more »
Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is the branch of physics concerned with heat and temperature and their relation to energy and work.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Thermodynamics · See more »
Work output
In physics, work output is the work done by a simple machine, compound machine, or any type of engine model.
New!!: Stirling cycle and Work output · See more »
Redirects here:
Sterling cycle, Stirling Cycle, Stirling-cycle.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_cycle
