Numerical simulation of the active magnetic regenerator

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1525-1538

  Siddikov, B M ^a   Wade, B A ^b   Schultz, D H ^b  

^a FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active magnetic regenerator; Magnetic refrigerator; Modeling and numerical scheme; Numerical simulation; Passive regenerator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ACTIVE MAGNETIC REGENERATORS; MAGNETIC REFRIGERATORS; MODELING AND NUMERICAL SCHEME; PASSIVE REGENERATOR;

MAGNETIC DEVICES;

EID: 23344434504     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2004.07.026     Document Type: Article

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