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If you have a container that contains pressurized gas such as hydrogen, the hydrogen would be pressing against the walls of the container, correct? Now if you had some sort of shape on an axle that somehow allowed the pressure to spin it around, would it spin it perpetually? I know such a shape...

Good point. I guess the simulation would only be useful for the visual aspect of all this.

@alephZero so your saying that correctly completing the equations for all the factors of this engine(probably several hundred) should figure out whether the engine would work? I mean I know it is, but I just think there'll be a factor I will forget about.

I'm currently doing physics, only in my first year university year though. I haven't learned everything yet, but I know a fair bit.

So essentially, I'd have to code every formula in that would apply to the engine, for instance that of friction, heat equations, pressure constants, everything that applies to the engines working, right? Give everything mass, density, etc and store those values as variable under the array of...

Well chiro, what I want this simulation to be is a proof of concept, something that will prove that the engine will work without having to build it in real life. So I need every element implemented that would be present in the real world.

Here's what I need, and this might sound far-fetched, but please answer it to the best of your ability. I want to create a car engine in blender, and then add a physics engine to make it run. The thing is, I don't want to animate it, I want to apply python script that can actually make the...

Here are the links http://books.google.ca/books?id=RN4_jLbVO3YC&pg=PA50&dq=Stirling+auto+engine+a+lot+of+progress,+but+Spirit&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=true http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19880002196_1988002196.pdf I have read both but I don't understand how the gas...

I was wondering how the force of a Stirling engine was measured? I mean, for every degree Celsius that the temperatures differ. how much more force (or horse power) is the engine generating? Are there any other variables to this? What I'm getting is can Stirling engines power cars if enough heat...