Thermodynamic Cycle Explorer

Live Script exploring Atkinson, Brayton, Carnot, Diesel, Ericsson, Otto, and Stirling heat engines.
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Updated 4 May 2025

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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 (2025). 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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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.1

Fixed typo.

1.0.0