Definitions for "THERMODYNAMIC CYCLE"
a collection of components which either takes in heat and produces energy, or takes in work and produces some transfer of heat, perhaps as a refrigerator or as a heat pump
a system within which one or more working fluids undergo a series of transformations in order to process energy
succession of processes which involve changes in temperature, pressure, and density in which the substance acts as a means of transformation of energy. See Otto and Brayton cycles.