Abstract
Many of the conventional results obtained when optimising the performance of an intercooler during compression using a perfect gas model can be obtained when the restrictions of the model are relaxed to an ideal gas. That is, we now have temperature-dependent specific heat capacities but retain the equation of state pV = RT. This note illustrates the theme.
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