A researcher whose joint teaching experiment displayed the pressure-volume cycle of a Stirling engine. Heating one part of the cylinder and water-cooling another drives repeated expansion and compression. The resulting diagram lets students distinguish a complete engine cycle from a single gas-expansion process.[ref]
Demonstration experiments with a Stirling engine by Christopher G Deacon and others. pp. 180–181: heated and cooled regions and pressure-volume demonstration
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