Stirling Engines
For Stirling engines, the Schmidt number represents dimensionless specific power. Gustav Schmidt of the German Polytechnic Institute of Prague published an analysis in 1871 for the now-famous closed-form solution for an idealized isothermal Stirling engine model.
where,
- is the Schmidt number
- is the heat transferred into the working fluid
- is the mean pressure of the working fluid
- is the volume swept by the piston.
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