Mechanical Efficiency of Heat Engines (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Energy transfers in cyclic heat engines; 2. Mechanism effectiveness and mechanical efficiency; 3. General efficiency limits; 4. Compression ratio and shaft work; 5. Pressurization effects; 6. Charge effects in ideal stirling engines; 7. Crossley?Stirling engines; 8. Generalized engine cycles and variable buffer pressure; 9. Multi-workspace engines and heat pumps; 10. Optimum stirling engine geometry; 11. Heat transfer effects; Appendices; References; Index.