Topics

  • Stirling engines prototype development and testing
  • Renewable applications of Stirling engines
  • Waste heat recovery systems
  • Co-generation systems: micro-CHP
  • Stirling refrigerators and cryocoolers
  • Stirling heat pumps
  • Space applications of Stirling machines
  • Transport applications of Stirling machines
  • Heat transfer / fluid flow analysis
  • Thermodynamic modelling and CFD simulation
  • Stress analysis/noise and vibration
  • Dynamics and kinematics
  • Advanced materials and manufacturing
  • Novel designs of drive mechanisms and configurations
  • Thermal receivers, combustors and heat exchangers
  • Regenerator and porous medium
  • Mass production, marketing and commercialization