Thermal design of a compact recuperative heat exchanger for a stirling engine

This thesis is concerned with factors affecting the thermal design of a compact recuperative type crossflowing heat exchanger for the primary heater of a Stirling engine. The exchanger is constructed of small diameter metal tubes (in the range of 3.0 mm to 6.0 mm) and close spacings are maintained b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jewad, M. A.
Other Authors: Ward, J.
Language:en
Published: Cranfield University 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1826/4141