Table of Contents

Introduction. Unsteady Flow and Heat Transfer Theory. Correlations for Steady/Unsteady Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer. Fundamentals of Operation and Types of Stirling Devices, with Descriptions of Some Sample Devices (Including Power and Cooling Levels). Types of Stirling Engine Regenerators. Random-Fiber Regenerators—Actual Scale. Random-Fiber Regenerator—Large Scale. Segmented-Involute-Foil Regenerator—Actual Scale. Segmented-Involute-Foil Regenerator—Large-Scale (Experiments, Analysis, and Computational Fluid Dynamics). Mesh Sheets and Other Regenerator Matrices. Applications Other Than Stirling Engines. Summary and Conclusions. Future Work. Appendices. Nomenclature.

About the Author

Mounir B. Ibrahim is a professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department of Cleveland State University, Ohio. Roy Tew, Jr. worked as analytical research engineer for more than 40 years at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.