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  2. Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor - Wikipedia

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    To overcome the low efficiency of steam and combustion engines of the time, Diesel wanted to build an entirely new type of internal combustion engine. [10] In the 1890s, regular gas engines were capable of transforming only 6% of the fuel energy into kinetic energy; [11] good triple expansion steam engines were slightly better than that, they ...

  3. Kinetic theory of gases - Wikipedia

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    The kinetic theory of gases is a simple classical model of the thermodynamic behavior of gases. Its introduction allowed many principal concepts of thermodynamics to be established. It treats a gas as composed of numerous particles, too small to be seen with a microscope, in constant, random motion.

  4. Computational fluid dynamics - Wikipedia

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    CFD is applied to a wide range of research and engineering problems in many fields of study and industries, including aerodynamics and aerospace analysis, hypersonics, weather simulation, natural science and environmental engineering, industrial system design and analysis, biological engineering, fluid flows and heat transfer, engine and ...

  5. Gas networks simulation - Wikipedia

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    Gas networks simulation or gas pipeline simulation is a process of defining the mathematical model of gas transmission and gas distribution systems, which are usually composed of highly integrated pipe networks operating over a wide range of pressures. Simulation allows to predict the behaviour of gas network systems under different conditions ...

  6. Gas kinetics - Wikipedia

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    Gas kinetics is a science in the branch of fluid dynamics, concerned with the study of motion of gases and its effects on physical systems.Based on the principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, gas dynamics arises from the studies of gas flows in transonic and supersonic flights.

  7. Chapman–Enskog theory - Wikipedia

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    The basic principles of Chapman–Enskog theory can be extended to more diverse physical models, including gas mixtures and molecules with internal degrees of freedom. In the high-density regime, the theory can be adapted to account for collisional transport of momentum and energy, i.e. transport over a molecular diameter during a collision ...

  8. Carnot heat engine - Wikipedia

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    The Carnot engine model was graphically expanded by Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron in 1834 and mathematically explored by Rudolf Clausius in 1857, work that led to the fundamental thermodynamic concept of entropy. The Carnot engine is the most efficient heat engine which is theoretically possible. [3]

  9. Combustion instability - Wikipedia

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    For instance, thermoacoustic instabilities are a major hazard to gas turbines and rocket engines. [1] Moreover, flame blowoff of an aero-gas-turbine engine in mid-flight is clearly dangerous (see flameout). Because of these hazards, the engineering design process of engines involves the determination of a stability map (see figure). This ...