Free piston Stirling engines: A review

S Zare, AR Tavakolpour‐Saleh - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a detailed review on free piston Stirling engines (FPSEs) technology.
Generally, the Stirling engines can be categorized into two broad classes comprising …

Design and optimization of Stirling engines using soft computing methods: a review

S Zare, AR Tavakolpour-Saleh, A Aghahosseini… - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The need for energy converters with high thermal efficiency is a central issue in the field of
renewable energies. So far, different technologies have been introduced for converting …

Study on the coupling between engine and alternator in a free-piston Stirling generator

Z Jia, R Wang, J Hu, L Zhang, Z Wu, Y Chen… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The free-piston Stirling generator (FPSG) is composed of a free-piston Stirling engine
(FPSE) and a linear alternator. The coupling relationship between the two parts directly …

Thermoacoustic Stirling engines: A review

S Zare, AR Tavakolpour-Saleh… - … Journal of Green …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Thermoacoustic Stirling engines (TASEs) are the acoustic equivalents of Stirling
engines. They have attracted much attention from researchers due to their unique features …

Justifying performance of thermo-acoustic Stirling engines based on a novel lumped mechanical model

AR Tavakolpour-Saleh, S Zare - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel lumped mechanical model incorporating modern control theory
to investigate performance and startup condition of thermo-acoustic Stirling engines …

Predicting onset conditions of a free piston Stirling engine

S Zare, AR Tavakolpour-Saleh - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This research predicts the onset conditions of the free piston Stirling engines using
analytical solution of the governing equations and averaging-based Lyapunov technique. In …

Investigating limit cycle in a free piston Stirling engine using describing function technique and genetic algorithm

S Zare, AR Tavakolpour-Saleh, MH Sangdani - Energy Conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on evaluating a free piston Stirling engine (FPSE) using describing
function method along with a genetic algorithm (GA). In this regard, first, the nonlinear terms …

Assessment of damping coefficients ranges in design of a free piston Stirling engine: Simulation and experiment

S Zare, A Tavakolpour-Saleh, A Shourangiz-Haghighi… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper concentrates on investigating the robustness of the free piston Stirling engine
(FPSE) considering the uncertainty of the damping coefficients of power and displacer …

Design of a traveling wave thermo‐acoustic engine based on genetic algorithm

S Zare, AR Tavakolpour‐Saleh - International Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a novel design scheme for traveling wave thermo‐acoustic Stirling
engines (TASEs) based on a target frequency using genetic algorithm (GA). First, the effects …

Numerical optimization of a four-cylinder double-acting stirling engine based on non-ideal adiabatic thermodynamic model and scgm method

CH Cheng, YH Tan - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study is to optimize a four-cylinder, double-acting α-type Stirling engine with
wobble-yoke mechanism using an optimization scheme incorporated with an efficient …