An Isothermal Energy Function State Space Model of a Stirling Engine. Issue 11 (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mueller-Roemer, Carl; Caines, Peter E.
• Is Part Of: IFAC-PapersOnLine. Volume 48:Issue 11(2015)
• Page Start: 634
• Page End: 639
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: Thermodynamic systems -- state-space models -- Stirling engine; Automatic control -- Periodicals; 629.805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.258
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2405-8963

Abstract

Abstract: A thermodynamic modeling framework for interconnected systems has been proposed by D. Gromov and P. E. Caines (2011-2014). Starting from an expression for a system's internal energy, a systematic procedure leads to models of the dynamics of thermodynamic systems on their non-linear (Legendre) manifolds of equilibrium states. Specializing to the case of one working gas, the method yields an isothermal model of a Free-Piston Stirling Engine which generates trajectories modeling the periodic motion of the mechanism.