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Re: Compression ratio calculation
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 6/24/2009 3 Replies

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Well, that's only part of it. Isentropic means reversible adiabatic (no heat transfer) and the equation:

p2/p1 = (v1/v2)^gamma

is the right place to begin. Gamma, by the way, has a fixed value of... Login to read more.

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