isentropic
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- adjective
- /ˌaɪsɛnˈtrɒpɪk/
- Specialized
- In the ideal version of the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle (Figure 3), process 1-2 is one of isentropic compression, with the refrigerant initially entering the compressor as a saturated vapor and leaving in a superheated state.
Examples
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The real explanation for the difference has turned out to be that sound is adiabatic and isentropic, but Newton had assumed implicitly that it was isothermal instead.
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So you've got an isentropic expansion.
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It would become isentropic, not isothermal.
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And so here you recognize the inverse of the isentropic compressibility.
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It will become isentropic.
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Mechanical disturbances create isentropic pressure fluctuations that propagate as phonons with the speed of sound in water.
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It should also have isentropic compression, no subcooling (for R-22), and no suction superheating.
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The logic I used in coming to my conclusion involved nothing but quasi-static reversible adiabatic processes, which by definition are also isentropic, but I was ignoring my own point (5) while thinking through point (2).
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In thermodynamics, an isentropic process is one in which the system's entropy remains constant.
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For an ideal gas, the isentropic expansion occurs without any heat exchange with the surroundings.
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Etymology
Isentropic combines the prefix iso- meaning 'equal' and entropy, a measure of a system's 'disorder' or how much energy cannot do work. So isentropic describes a process where entropy stays the same — no entropy is added or lost.