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- A photo-Carnot engine is a Carnot cycle engine in which the working medium is a photon inside a cavity with perfectly reflecting walls. Radiation is the...3 KB (562 words) - 03:07, 28 November 2023
fundamentally limited by Carnot's theorem of thermodynamics. Although this efficiency limitation can be a drawback, an advantage of heat engines is that most forms...28 KB (3,858 words) - 07:10, 12 July 2024
Stirling engine, for the thermal reservoirs the ratio of the heat in to the heat out is the efficiency of the ideal Carnot cycle. This is the Carnot efficiency...96 KB (11,241 words) - 22:17, 7 July 2024
A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure gain combustion, where one or more detonations continuously travel around an annular channel...19 KB (1,968 words) - 07:25, 18 July 2024
The aerospike engine is a type of rocket engine that maintains its aerodynamic efficiency across a wide range of altitudes. It belongs to the class of...22 KB (2,487 words) - 03:26, 11 July 2024
A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this...61 KB (7,816 words) - 13:45, 16 July 2024
piston engines, these were tested in France in 1807 by de Rivaz and independently, by the Niépce brothers. They were theoretically advanced by Carnot in 1824...42 KB (5,099 words) - 11:55, 19 July 2024
Turbojet (redirect from Turbojet engine)The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft. It consists of a gas turbine with a propelling nozzle. The gas turbine...27 KB (3,466 words) - 13:32, 7 July 2024
that of the Carnot cycle, whose efficiency is determined by the difference between the lower and upper operating temperatures of the engine. The upper...99 KB (12,920 words) - 16:33, 9 June 2024
Ramjet (redirect from Ramjet engine)A ramjet is a form of airbreathing jet engine that requires forward motion of the engine to provide air for combustion. Ramjets work most efficiently...35 KB (4,828 words) - 07:56, 10 July 2024
Turboprop (redirect from Turboprop engine)A turboprop is a turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller. A turboprop consists of an intake, reduction gearbox, compressor, combustor, turbine...34 KB (3,060 words) - 04:47, 19 July 2024
A variable cycle engine (VCE), also referred to as adaptive cycle engine (ACE), is an aircraft jet engine that is designed to operate efficiently under...8 KB (1,053 words) - 06:52, 24 May 2024
the engine in the opposite direction. Combustion is most frequently used for practical rockets, as the laws of thermodynamics (specifically Carnot's theorem)...101 KB (11,745 words) - 19:33, 19 July 2024
Stirling engine, a type of hot air engine. 1824 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot developed the Carnot cycle and the associated hypothetical Carnot heat engine that...20 KB (2,651 words) - 22:31, 9 April 2024
A rocket engine nozzle is a propelling nozzle (usually of the de Laval type) used in a rocket engine to expand and accelerate combustion products to high...25 KB (3,078 words) - 03:36, 11 July 2024
The hot-bulb engine, also known as a semi-diesel, is a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignites by coming in contact with a red-hot metal...38 KB (5,303 words) - 17:05, 9 June 2024- all heat engines, the efficiency of a wave disk engine is governed by the temperature difference between the hot and cold sides (see Carnot's theorem)...8 KB (822 words) - 16:58, 5 July 2024
Turbofan (redirect from High-bypass turbofan engine)airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft propulsion. The word "turbofan" is a combination of the preceding generation engine technology of...92 KB (11,147 words) - 02:03, 19 July 2024
engine compressors provide the compression part of the gas turbine engine thermodynamic cycle. There are three basic categories of gas turbine engine...6 KB (756 words) - 07:12, 25 October 2023- 671 hp) gas turbines evolved from piston engine turbochargers, aircraft auxiliary power units (APU) or small jet engines, the size of a refrigerator. Early...17 KB (1,970 words) - 18:06, 29 May 2024
- intermediate positions being arranged for the smaller guns. Such vessels as the “Carnot,” “Charles Martel,” “Jaureguiberry,” “Masséna,” “Bouvet” approximating to
- analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous
- developed the theoretical Carnot engine, which was 100% efficient, and so could be used to compare the efficiency of real engines. Julius Mayer was the first