A Drinking Bird and A Low Temperature Stirling Engine as Heat Engines and the Method of Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD)
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
(2026)
A Drinking Bird and A Low Temperature Stirling Engine as Heat Engines and the Method of Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD): pp.
54-75.
Chapter 3. Engineering Applications of a Drinking Bird (DB) and the
Analysis by Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD)
The following sections are included:
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3.1 The Thermomechanical Motion of a Drinking Bird
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3.2 Numerical Results of Thermomechanical DB’s Motion and Moment of Inertia I(t)
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3.3 Numerical Results of DB’s Internal Energy ε(t), Thermodynamic Work W(t), Temperature T(t), and Heat Q(t)
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3.4 The Mathematical Analyses of DB’s Internal Energy ε(t), Thermodynamic Work W(t), Temperature T(t), and Entropy S(t)
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3.5 Concluding Remarks on DB’s Motion and Thermodynamics
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Bibliography
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Index