Assessing the performance of a microfabricated regenerator for Stirling space-power convertor

Collection of Technical Papers - 3rd International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 830-845

  Ibrahim, Mounir B ^a,g   Keister, Jason ^a,g   Sun, Liyong ^b,g,h   Simon, Terry ^b,g,h   Mantell, Susan C ^b,g,h   Gedeon, David ^c   Guidry, Dean ^d,i   Qiu, Songgang ^e   Wood, Gary ^f,j  

^a Cleveland State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Gedeon Associates   (United States)

^d International Mezzo Technologies   (United States)

^e Infinia Corporation   (United States)

^f Sunpower Inc   (United States)

^g AIAA   (United States)

^h Department of Computer Science and Engineering   (United States)

ⁱ International Mezzo Technologies Inc   (United States)

^j Sunpower   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FABRICATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; METAL FOIL; STIRLING ENGINES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EDM TOOLS; LARGE SCALE MOCK-UP (LSMU); LENTICULAR ARRAY; MICROFABRICATED REGENERATORS; SAGE CODE;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 29144515696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-5597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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