Kondepudi, D. and Prigogine, I. (2014) Modern Thermodynamics From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures. Wiley.

The Newcomen engine was designed to pump water out of coal mines. Show more The Newcomen engine was the first commercially viable machine to be fuelled by steam. It was an innovation that changed ...

The date of 14 July was chosen for its historical significance and coincides with the creation of the world's first successful steam engine, invented by Thomas Newcomen in Dudley in 1712.

Model Predictive Control for an Organic Rankine Cycle System applied to a Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Abstract: Innovative internal combustion engine (ICE) concepts are in the focus of current research ...

This paper presents a fault-tolerant control (FTC) scheme for the sensor fault in the transition process of variable cycle engine (VCE) based on an adaptive equilibrium manifold model. Firstly, an ...