Boiling is an effective heat transfer mechanism, which is a very common heat transfer phenomenon in a wide range of fields, such as metallurgy, nuclear reactor, new energy, electronics, and so on. The bubble departure frequency is one of the critical parameters determining how fast vapor bubbles...

A high performance model Stirling engine, in which the heater, regenerator and cooler as a whole is formed by hundreds of porous metal sheets, is identified for theoretical analysis to facilitate the future scale-up design. The reciprocating flow and heat transfer both in the heat exchanger and...