Carnot Heat Engine API
Heat-engine efficiency and coefficient of performance as an API, computed locally and deterministically. The efficiency endpoint gives the Carnot maximum efficiency of any heat engine working between two temperatures, η = 1 − Tc/Th (in kelvin) — the absolute upper limit no real engine can beat — and, given a heat input, the maximum work it could produce and the heat it must reject. The heat-pump endpoint gives the Carnot coefficient of performance of a heat pump, COP = Th/(Th − Tc), and of a refrigerator or air conditioner, COP = Tc/(Th − Tc), and the heat moved for a given work input. The engine endpoint analyses a real engine from its heat balance: from any two of the heat input, the work output, the efficiency or the heat rejected it returns the rest using η = W/Qh and Qc = Qh − W, and — given the reservoir temperatures — compares it to the Carnot limit and reports the second-law (exergy) efficiency. Temperatures accept kelvin, Celsius or Fahrenheit. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for thermodynamics-education tools, engine, turbine and HVAC design, refrigeration and heat-pump apps, and energy-systems software. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 3 endpoints. This is heat-engine and refrigeration-cycle efficiency; for sensible heat use a specific-heat API and for heat-exchanger LMTD use a heat-exchanger API.
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