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At point B, pressure becomes higher than the aortic pressure and the aortic valve opens, initiating ejection. BC is the ejection phase, volume decreases. At the end of this phase, pressure lowers again and falls below aortic pressure. The aortic valve closes. Point C is the end-systolic point. Segment CD is the isovolumic relaxation. During ...
Graph of Boyle's original data [4] showing the hyperbolic curve of the relationship between pressure (P) and volume (V) of the form P = k/V. The relationship between pressure and volume was first noted by Richard Towneley and Henry Power in the 17th century. [5] [6] Robert Boyle confirmed their discovery through experiments and published the ...
A plot of a system's pressure versus volume has long been used to measure the work done by the system and its efficiency. This analysis can be applied to heat engines and pumps, including the heart. A considerable amount of information on cardiac performance can be determined from the pressure vs. volume plot (pressure–volume diagram).
A saturation dome uses the projection of a P–v–T diagram (pressure, specific volume, and temperature) onto the P–v plane. The points that create the left-hand side of the dome represent the saturated liquid states, while the points on the right-hand side represent the saturated vapor states (commonly referred to as the “dry” region).
Isotherms of an ideal gas for different temperatures. The curved lines are rectangular hyperbolae of the form y = a/x. They represent the relationship between pressure (on the vertical axis) and volume (on the horizontal axis) for an ideal gas at different temperatures: lines that are farther away from the origin (that is, lines that are nearer to the top right-hand corner of the diagram ...
The pressure–volume graph [ edit ] When a Carnot cycle is plotted on a pressure–volume diagram ( Figure 1 ), the isothermal stages follow the isotherm lines for the working fluid, the adiabatic stages move between isotherms, and the area bounded by the complete cycle path represents the total work that can be done during one cycle.
The path or series of states through which a system passes from an initial equilibrium state to a final equilibrium state [1] and can be viewed graphically on a pressure-volume (P-V), pressure-temperature (P-T), and temperature-entropy (T-s) diagrams. [2] There are an infinite number of possible paths from an initial point to an end point in a ...
A pressure/volume graph of the idealized Stirling cycle. In real applications of the Stirling cycles (e.g. Stirling engines) this cycle is quasi-elliptical. The idealized Stirling [5] cycle consists of four thermodynamic processes acting on the working fluid (See diagram to right):