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A Stirling engine cycle combined with a SI engine cycle to recover the SI engine exhaust gas waste heat. One dimensional combustion simulation code is prepared for Spark Ignition type engine (M355G) simulation. The accuracy of numerical simulated results has been validated with M355G experimentally. The experimental generated power and exhaust gas temperature vary in the range of 84.1- 176.7 kW and 610-710 , respectively. The 1D code estimates the generated power with maximum 5.9% error and average exhaust gas temperature with 3.8% error in the operating range of the engine. The thermal analysis is done, and the results show that about 25% the part of input energy transfers by the exhaust gas as a waste. The results indicate that by installing a Stirling engine heater on the exhaust pipe of the SI engine can recover about 8.4kW of the waste heat at the best condition. The simulation of Alpha-type Stirling engine is done by GT-Suit program and the Solo V161 experimental results is used for the validation. According to 9% error in generated power calculation for validation, the new Stirling engine is suggested for installing in exhaust pipe. The generated power and thermal efficiency is estimated for Stirling engine in various exhaust gas temperature which occurred in various SI engine working condition. The coupled engines heat balance showed that the thermal efficiency is about 2-3% more than the ordinary one.

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Many variant configurations for Stirling engines have been presented. In Beta and Gamma type configurations, a displacer moves the working fluid between hot and cold sources. Whereas in the Alpha type there is no such a part and it has much simpler structure than the Beta and Gamma type. Therefore in this study, a novel configuration is introduced for Stirling engine the displacer is replaced by two pistons and cylinders. With this replacement, the new configuration can be called 3-Cylinders Gamma configuration for Stirling engine. Similar to Alpha type engine, this configuration has simpler structure and manufacturing process. For evaluation of new configuration, a simulation model of fabricated Gamma Stirling engine is prepared based on new configuration and geometry of ST-500 engine. The modeling is developed in GT-Suit software which is an industry-leading simulation tool. Maximum error between the experimental results and simulation of the new engine is about 20 percent for heat consumption and 14.7 percent for power. Thermodynamic analysis of performance parameters is done after the validation. The thermodynamic analysis results indicate that the increment of engine speed does not have appropriate effect on the performance and it led engine efficiency reduction. On the other hand by increasing the pressure and hot source temperature the engine performance improves and led higher thermal efficiency.

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The usages of stirling engine in many industry such as aerospace, submarines and combined heat and power systems, requires more and detailed analysis in such engines. This type of engine is an external combustion which may use almost any type of fuel. In this article the Nusselt number and friction coefficient of a Stirling engine heat exchanger is investigated numerically. The geometry of this heat exchanger is an arc shape pipe with reciprocating flow. Various parameters such as angular frequencies, type of fluids, working gas pressures, flow regime and heater geometry impact on the Nusselt number and friction coefficient of the heater were investigated. By increasing the angular frequency and the working gas pressure the Nusselt number increases but the friction coefficient decreases. The influences of different working fluids indicated that the Carbon dioxide has the highest Nusselt number. The results also show that the friction coefficient is highly dependent on the flow regime. The comparison between the two different geometry type heaters show that the arc-type geometry led to higher Nusselt number. The friction coefficients of both geometries are almost similar to each other at high frequencies.

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Oscillating flow is one of the most important characteristics of flow in stirling engine heat exchangers. In this study reciprocating flow in stirling engine cooler is investigated numerically. Numerical solution is based on finite volume and pressure based algorithm by using the commercial CFD code fluent. A Shell and tube type heat exchanger used as cooler. The working fluid, gas flows inside the tubes while the cooling fluid, water flows around the tubes. The heat transfer coefficient, temperature difference between tube walls and working fluid, Nusselt number and friction coefficient are calculated for Helium, Carbon‌ dioxide and Nitrogen at different operating pressure and oscillating frequency. The Nusselt number, heat transfer coefficient and temperature difference between tube walls and working fluid increase with increase of operating pressure or oscillating frequency while Friction coefficient decreases. Helium has the highest heat transfer coefficient and friction coefficient and the lowest temperature difference between tube walls and working fluid. At the highest operating pressure and oscillating frequency, Carbon dioxide has the highest Nusselt number and the lowest Friction coefficient. Finally empirical equations for Nusselt number and friction coefficient are proposed for Helium, Carbon dioxide and Nitrogen, the error of the equations are within 0.23-8.07% when the range of kinetic Reynolds number is 2.96-212.50.