Power conversion with a stirling cycle for venus surface mission

Collection of Technical Papers - 2nd International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 850-860

  Mellott, Kenneth D ^a,b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MS 301/2   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ENERGY CONVERSION; KINEMATICS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; SPACE RESEARCH; STIRLING CYCLE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ENERGY SOURCE; LIGHT WEIGHT; SCIENCE MISSIONS; STIRLING CONVERTERS; VENUS SURFACE MISSION;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 20344366575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-5622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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