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The 22 pages that link to Thermodynamic cycle, each with the reason it gives.

• Internal combustion engineNarrower topic: Engine cycles idealize the compression, combustion, expansion, and exhaust processes.

• Diesel engineRelated: Idealized cycles help explain how diesel engines convert heat into work.

• EnergyRelated: Cycles convert energy transfers into repeatable engine or refrigeration operation.

• Thermal efficiencyNarrower topic: Cycle-based efficiency compares net work over a full cycle with heat supplied during it.

• Thermodynamic stateBroader topic: The cycle closes because the final state equals the initial state.

• Heat engineNarrower topic: A heat engine produces net work by repeating a cycle while exchanging heat with its surroundings.

• Rankine cycleNarrower topic: The Rankine cycle is one specific heat-engine cycle.

• Brayton cycleNarrower topic: The Brayton cycle is one idealized sequence within this broader class.

• Chemical thermodynamicsRelated: Cycles let reaction energies be calculated from other measured chemical transformations.

• State functionBroader topic: A state function has zero net change over any completed cycle.

• State variableBroader topic: State variables return to their starting values after a complete cycle.

• Jet propulsionRelated: Air-breathing jet engines use cycles to add heat and extract useful work.

• Thermodynamic processCompared with: A process connects states; a cycle strings processes together and closes the path.

• Diesel cycleNarrower topic: The Diesel cycle is one idealized sequence of this broader kind.

• Piston engineNarrower topic: Ideal cycles provide a framework for analyzing heat, pressure, and work in piston engines.

• Reciprocating engineNarrower topic: The cycle describes how heat and pressure repeatedly produce useful work.

• Perpetual motion machineRelated: Claims of cyclic operation must account for all energy and entropy changes over a complete cycle.

• Alphonse Beau de RochasNarrower topic: The four-stroke engine is understood both as mechanical strokes and as a repeating cycle.

• Hess's lawRelated: The enthalpy changes around a closed cycle sum to zero.

• Clausius theoremBroader topic: The theorem applies to processes that close into such a cycle.

• Ericsson cycleNarrower topic: The Ericsson cycle is a closed sequence that produces net work.

• Nicolas Léonard Sadi CarnotNarrower topic: The repeated cycle provides the framework for Carnot’s ideal engine.