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Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, 2nd Edition
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Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, 2nd Edition

by Ali Turan, D. Winterbone
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
578 pages
19h 27m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
Content preview from Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, 2nd Edition
16.2 FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF BASIC ENGINE CYCLES
However, before getting involved in these details it is necessar y to expand on some of the ideas
introduced in Chapter 3.
In chapter 3, the compression ratio was defined as the ratio of volumes (V
1
/V
2
), see Fig. 16.1: this is
normally called the nominal compression ratio of the engine. There are actually two compression
ratios applicable to engines: the nominal compression ratio and the effective compression ratio. The
nominal compression ratio is the volume of the cylinder at bottom dead centre (bdc) divided by
the volume of the cylinder at top dead centre (tdc). The volume of the cylinder at tdc ...
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