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to Stirling Cycle Machine Analysis1. Awareness of the operating principles, history,
and development of Stirling cycle machines including both engines
and heat pumps and their renewed relevance in the current energy
and global warming crises
2. Ability to analyze and simulate Stirling cycle machines, including
the use of Ideal Isothermal and Ideal Adiabatic models in which
all three heat exchangers are considered to be perfect.
3. Ability to extend the Ideal Adiabatic model to include a regenerator
effectiveness of less than unity and to compute its effect on
the performance of the Stirling cycle machine.
4. Understanding of convective heat exchanger scaling parameters
and an ability to extend the Ideal Adiabatic computer simulation
to include the heat transfer and flow friction effects of all
three heat exchangers on the performance of the Stirling cycle
machine.
5. Ability to perform parametric sensitivity analyses, a required
step in design optimization.
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