Otto Cycle or What Is Behind the Simplified FormulaThis chapter explains how the usual simplified formula to calculate thermal efficiency of an internal combustion engine is appears. Described Internet sites with the "reverse" design challenge—you mus...
Review The Quantum Harmonic Otto Cycle Ronnie Kosloff 1,*,† and Yair Rezek 2,3,† 1 Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel 2 Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel; yair.rezek@mail.huji.ac.il 3 Tel Hai College, Kiryat Shmona 1220800,...
The quantum Otto cycle serves as a bridge between the macroscopic world of heat engines and the quantum regime of thermal devices composed from a single element. We compile recent studies of the quantum Otto cycle with a harmonic oscillator as a working