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AI-Assisted Educational Content"Engineering Thermodynamics," by Olivier Cleynen, offers a comprehensive exploration of thermodynamics with a focus on practical engineering applications. It covers fundamental concepts like energy, work, and heat, and delves into closed and open systems, ideal gases, and the behavior of liquids and vapors. Key thermodynamic cycles such as Otto, Diesel, Rankine, and Carnot are analyzed in detail, along with their efficiencies and practical modifications like superheating, reheating, and regeneration. The text emphasizes the importance of entropy in predicting process direction and understanding irreversibilities. It also discusses the historical development of thermodynamic concepts and engines, including steam turbines and gas turbines. The book is available under a Creative Commons license, encouraging free access and sharing.
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