Dynamics of Free Piston Stirling Engines

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dc.contributor.advisorBalachandran, Balakumaren_US
dc.contributor.authorChoudhary, Farhanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-19T06:30:48Z
dc.date.available2010-02-19T06:30:48Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractFree piston Stirling engines (FPSEs) are examples of closed cycle regenerative engines, which can be used to convert thermal energy into mechanical energy. FPSEs are multi-degree-of-freedom dynamical systems that are designed to operate in a periodic manner. Traditionally, the designed periodic orbits are meta-stable, making the system operation sensitive to disturbances. A preferred operating state would be an attracting limit cycle, since the steady-state dynamics would be unique. In this thesis, it is investigated as to how to engineer a Hopf bifurcation of an equilibrium solution in a FPSE. Through a combination of weakly nonlinear analysis and simulations, it is shown that it is possible to engineer a Hopf bifurcation in a FPSE system. Through the analyses, reduced-order-models are developed on the basis of Schmidt formulations and nodal analysis. This thesis effort could serve as a platform for designing FPSEs which take advantage of nonlinear phenomena in either the beta or double acting alpha configuration.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/9809
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Mechanicalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddynamicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFree Piston Stirling Engineen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHopf bifurcationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlimit cycleen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmulticylinderen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollednonlinearen_US
dc.titleDynamics of Free Piston Stirling Enginesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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