The thermal non-equilibrium porous media modelling for CFD study of woven wire matrix of a Stirling regenerator

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 89, Issue , 2015, Pages 473-483

  Costa, S C ^a   Barreno, I ^a   Tutar, M ^b,c   Esnaola, J A ^b   Barrutia, H ^b  

^a Centro Stirling S Coop   (Spain)

^b MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

CFD; Heat transfer; Porous media; Pressure drop; Stirling regenerator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROPS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; REGENERATORS; STIRLING ENGINES; WIRE;

FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFERS; FRICTION RESISTANCE COEFFICIENT; NONTHERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; REGENERATION CYCLES; STIRLING ENGINE REGENERATORS; STIRLING REGENERATOR; THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

EID: 84908407120     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2014.10.019     Document Type: Article

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