Thermodynamic Cycle Explorer

Version 1.01 (578 KB) by Duncan Carlsmith
Live Script exploring Atkinson, Brayton, Carnot, Diesel, Ericsson, Otto, and Stirling heat engines.
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Updated 9 Feb 2026

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This educational Live Script explores numerical examples of idealized Atkinson, Brayton, Carnot, Diesel, Ericsson, Otto, and Stirling heat engines that use gas to transform thermal energy into work and compares the efficiency to expectation.
This script may interest students and instructors in physics and related fields. 'Try this' suggestions, 'Challenges', hyperlinks, and references are included for further exploration. Additional educational Live Scripts by the author are available here.

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Duncan Carlsmith (2026). Thermodynamic Cycle Explorer (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/180938-thermodynamic-cycle-explorer), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2024b
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1.01

Added interactive_examples tag
1.0.1

Fixed typo.
1.0.0