A gas powered cycle introduced by a German Engineer named Dr. Nikolaus August Otto, this Otto cycle has wide usage in the automobile sector. This is an ideal thermodynamic cycle that is used for describing the function of a specific piston engine which has spark ignition. These types are known as modern petrol engine in present times.
There are 4 processes associated with this:
- Two isentropic (reversible adiabatic)
- Two isochoric (constant volume)
Being a four stroke engine, it consists of:
- Intake stroke
- Power stroke
- Combustion stroke
- Exhaust stroke
This Otto Cycle is a perfect way to understand effects of mass on gas, when certain changes as addition and subtraction of heat, pressure, temperature and volume are concerned. There has to be a certain amount of net wok that has to be produced to propel an automobile functioning.
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- Open system and control volume
- Conversion of work into heat
- Introduction to carnot cycle
- Clausius inequality entropy and irreversibility introduction
- Ideal gas or perfect gas
- Introduction about air standard cycles
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- Diesel cycle
- Operating principle of four stroke petrol engine s i engine
- Operating principle of four stroke diesel engine c i engine
- Performance of i c engines
- Properties of pure substances introduction
- Vapour compression refrigeration cycle introduction
- Basic fluid mechanics and properties of fluids introduction
- Fluid statics introduction
- Manometers measurement pressure