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Figure 21.1 A simplified pressure-volume (P-V) and temperature-entropy (T-S). Adapted from United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), P-V and S-T diagrams, <http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/pvtsplot.html>.

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Figure 21.2 The Carnot, Ericsson, Stirling cycles. Source: Adapted from Moran, Michael J. 2005. Engineering Thermodynamics, In: Frank Kreith and D. Yogi Goswami, Editors. CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering, Second Edition (Boca Raton, CRC Press).

Figure 21.3 The Otto and Diesel ...

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