Experimental and numerical investigations of a single and double pass porous serpentine wavy wiremesh packed bed solar air heater

S Singh - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This research work presents the thermal performance investigation of a porous serpentine
wavy wiremesh packed bed solar air heater, experimentally and numerically. Experimental …

Numerical simulation of heat dissipation processes in underground power cable system situated in thermal backfill and buried in a multilayered soil

P Ocłoń, P Cisek, M Pilarczyk, D Taler - Energy Conversion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents the thermal analysis of the underground transmission line, planned to
be installed in one of the Polish power plants. The computations are performed by using the …

Modelling of a Stirling engine with parabolic dish for thermal to electric conversion of solar energy

G Barreto, P Canhoto - Energy Conversion and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Stirling engines with parabolic dish for thermal to electric conversion of solar energy is one
of the most promising solutions of renewable energy technologies in order to reduce the …

Thermal performance analysis on a volumetric solar receiver with double-layer ceramic foam

X Chen, XL Xia, XL Meng, XH Dong - Energy Conversion and Management, 2015 - Elsevier
Using porous materials has become an effective means to enhance heat transfer. Volumetric
receiver is a key component inside the solar thermal systems. The novel concept using …

Modelling and parametric study of an efficient Alpha type Stirling engine performance based on 3D CFD analysis

AK Almajri, S Mahmoud, R Al-Dadah - Energy conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
As an externally heated engine the Stirling engine has the advantage of being able to
efficiently exploit various waste heat sources. Computational fluid dynamic simulation (CFD) …

[HTML][HTML] CFD Simulation of Stirling Engines: A Review

S Laín, V Villamil, JR Vidal - Processes, 2024 - mdpi.com
Stirling engines (SEs) have long attracted the attention of renewable energy researchers
due to their external combustion design and flexibility in operating with various heat sources …

Stirling engine regenerators: How to attain over 95% regenerator effectiveness with sub-regenerators and thermal mass ratios

AS Nielsen, BT York, BD MacDonald - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
A combined theoretical and experimental approach is used to determine how to achieve a
desired value for the Stirling engine regenerator effectiveness. A discrete one-dimensional …

Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics simulation of stirling engine

SA El-Ghafour, M El-Ghandour, NN Mikhael - Energy conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation for the GPU-3 Stirling
engine is performed. Firstly, the performance of six different eddy-viscosity models are …

Parametric study on beta-type Stirling engine

A Abuelyamen, R Ben-Mansour… - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, a parametric study on a β-type Stirling engine with no regenerator was
conducted numerically using ANSYS fluent 14.5 software. The three parameters that were …

A novel approach towards the selection of regenerators for optimal Stirling engine performance based on energy and exergy analyses

MJ Yu, MH Zhang, L Xu, HC Cui, ZC Liu… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
Regenerators play a vital role in enhancing the overall performance of Stirling engines.
Hence, this paper performed an energy and exergy analysis to elucidate the significance of …