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Study of mechanically oscillating thermodynamic systems (thermodynamic pendullums or oscillators) has been neglected for a long time, partly because no exact analytic solution of the corresponding system of differential equations modeling the processes is known [I], and partly because of lack of practical interest. During the last two decades, space, industrial and domestic applications of free piston thermal machines (FPTMs) and progress in numerical methods have stimulated scientific interest in this field since the thermodynamic pendullum represents an appropriate physical model to study FPTMs functioning.
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Stanescu, G. (1999). A Study of the Large Oscillations of the Thermodynamic Pendullum by the Method of Cubication. In: Bejan, A., Mamut, E. (eds) Thermodynamic Optimization of Complex Energy Systems. NATO Science Series, vol 69. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4685-2_34
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