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Les moteurs à cycle à air.

Air engines.

Auteurs : FINKELSTEIN T., ORGAN A. J.

Type de monographie : Ouvrage

Résumé

This book is a comprehensively readable account of the evolution of the air engine, of the many variants of the basic principle, of the methods available for design and of current and future applications. This wide-ranging treatment spans the entire subject from previously undisclosed technical details of Robert Stirling's original invention of 1816 through to engines currently under development. Extract from the table of contents: air engines; the Stirling engine; later single cylinder engines; Philips engines; 'modern knowledge'; reassessment; post-revival; the 'regenerator problem'; two decades of optimism; thermodynamic design; completing the picture.

Détails

  • Titre original : Air engines.
  • Identifiant de la fiche : 2002-2169
  • Langues : Anglais
  • Édition : Mep - Royaume-uni/Royaume-uni
  • Date d'édition : 2001
  • ISBN : 1860583385
  • Source : Source : 287 p. (16 x 24); fig.; phot.; tabl.; ref.; index; GBP 49.50.
  • Document disponible en consultation à la bibliothèque du siège de l'IIF uniquement.

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