SUBJECT INDEX. Dashpot load Dead space - 115, 118 Degrees of freedom - 51 Design guidelines for Ringboms

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1 SUBJECT INDEX Adiabatic processes Aerodynamic friction - 113, 118 Aerojet-General heart system Air as working Fluid Air compressor conversion Air preheater - 12 Alpha West Analysis program Alternator losses - 182, 185 Amplitude Analog computer Area ratio Articulated diaphragms Artificial heart engines Balance - 31 Balanced compounded Stirling hydraulic engine Bang-bang operation - 30, 204 Basic engine power calculation Basic heat input Beale number Benson engine - 35 Bounce space - 23, 223 Bourne/Bush engine - 202, 206 Brake efficiency British Genius Exhibition Bucket brigade loss CM-3 80K cryocooler Carnot cycle - 5, 105 Cells Coal-fired Stirling engines Cold finger Cold tip Compression space - 3 Constrained simulation Control volumes Convective spoilers - 118, 174 Cost - 12 Cryocooler, definition Cryopumping Cryo-surgery Cup seals Dashpot load Dead space - 115, 118 Degrees of freedom - 51 Design guidelines for Ringboms

2 263 Diaphragm bulge Diaphragm engines - 47, 209 Diaphragm hub diameter - optimum Diaphragms as pistons - 168, 207 Diesel conversion to Ringbom Diesel engine conversion Diesel engines - 11 Discontinuous piston motion - 9 Displacer - 14 Displacer annulus pumping loss Displacer kinetic energy loss Dry Fluidynes Duplex Stirling heat pump - 129, 140, 217 Efficiency - 11 Electrical heating of engines Ericsson engines - 1, 7, 200 Expansion space - 3 Experience factor - 101, 103, 106, 112 Explosion hazard Family tree of fpse - 29 Fatigue failure Fatigue threshold stress Ferroxdure 300 magnet material Finkelstein adiabatic analysis Finkelstein nodal analysis First order analyses of Ringboms - 106, Fluid friction - 123, 182 Fluidized bed combustor Fluidyne engine Fluidyne refrigerator - 36 Franchot engines - 38 Free cylinder engines - 20, 129 Free cylinder water pumps Free-piston cryocoolers Frequency - 69, 104, 111 Fruit jar Fluidyne Gas conduction Gas coupling in Fluidynes Gas-fired heat pump Gas leak rate - 88 Gas lubrication - 20, 90-94, 166 Gas spring hysteresis Gas spring types Gedeon's third order analysis Hard anodized aluminum - 89 Harmonic operation - 30, 53, 108 Hot air engines - 1 Hot gas engines - 1

3 264 Hybrid Stirling engines Hydraulic output Hydraulic output of Stirling engines Hydrostatic drive - 35 Hysteresis loss - 119, 138 Ideal Stirling cycle - 3-5, 101 Inertia freon compressor Inertia water pump Integral-Stirling cryocooler Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference Isothermal analysis Isothermalized spaces Isothermalizer in Fluidynes Large Stirling cryocoolers Large Stirling engines Life of engine Linear alternator - 129, 136 Linearization Liquid feedback in Fluidynes Liquid piston Stirling cryocooler Liquid piston Stirling engines M.C. 80 cryocooler Martini driven displacer - 161, 217 Martini multiple cylinder refrigerating machine - 39 Martini second order analysis Mass ratio Metallurgical limit - 11 Method of characteristics Military applications Model 10 engine - 129, 136 Model 100 engine Model Stirling engines Moving coil alternator Moving magnet alternator Multicylinder Fluidynes - 235, 253 Natural frequency - 53 Natural gas liquifiers - 141, Net heat input Net power output Nodes Optimization Orowan's rule Oscillating flow in Fluidynes Overdriven mode operation - 147, 148 Overdriven mode theorem Overspeeding - 150

4 265 Pendulum engines Phase angle Phasor - 35 Piston Piston centering Piston rings Pneumatic cushion Poiseuille laws Power calculation Pumping application of Fluidynes Pumping power - 124, 142, 180 RE-1000 engine Radiation heat transfer Radiation shields - 118, 174 Radio-isotopes heat source - 185, 188, 199 Rankine heat pump system Regenerator - 3 Regenerator losses - 118, 184 Relative efficiency - 8, 106 Ringbom engines Ringbom Stirling engine - 139, 143, 145 Rocking beam feedback Rulon Samarium/Cobalt magnets Scaling rules - 142, 216 Schmidt assumptions Seal leakage loss Second order analyses Self-starting - 167, 208 Separate cylinder arrangement - 15 Shuttle heat transfer Side force - 20 Siemens engines Single-cylinder Ringbom Small Stirling engines Sodium heat pipes Spring stiffness - 96 Split-Stirling cryocooler - 15, 79, 223, SQUIDS Stable operation of Ringboms Stainless steel - 94 Starting Static friction Stirling cryocooler - 36 Stirling cycle heat pump - 6 Stirling cycle pressure generator - 6 Stirling cycle refrigerator - 5 Stirling Engine Newsletter Stress limits for diaphrams - 169

5 Sunpower third order analysis Super Demo engine Temperature difference in heat exchangers - 182, 183 Thermal conduction - 116, 182 Thermal loading of heat exchangers Thermocompressor - 7, , 210 Thermo-mechanical generator Third order analyses Three-mass system - 32 Tidal regenerator engine Top end tuning - 139, 158 Transient heat transfer loss Transit tune of displacer Tuning of liquid columns - 236, 245 Two-mass system - 32 UK National Data Buoy - 188, 190 Viscous losses in gap Vuilleumier cycle - 49 Water lubrication - 160, 217 Water pumping Wet Fluidynes Wooden Fluidyne Workspace spring effect - 104, 105

6 267 NAME INDEX AGA Navigation Aids Ltd Agbi - 27 American Gas Association Argonne National Laboratory Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell - 83, 235 Beale, William - 27, 50, 128 Bush, Vanevar - 7 Chellis, Fred Chicago Bridge and Iron Co Cooke-Yarborough, E.H. - 47, 83, 166, 235 Cryogenic Technology Inc Eaton Corp Ericsson, John - 16 Gedeon, D ,124,134,216 General Electric General Motors - 16 Higa, Walter Horn, Stuart Hughes Aircraft Co Jet Propulsion Laboratory - 134, 231 Joint Center for Graduate Study Magnavox Inc Martin-Marietta Martini, W , 235 Martini Engineering McDonnel Douglas Co Mechanical Technology Inc Metal Box Co Mitchell, L NASA Lewis Research Center - 135, 209 National Energy Software Center National Institutes of Health Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ormat Turbines Philips Research Laboratories - 2, 226 Postle, Davy - 44

7 268 Rainbow, Horace - 45 Ringbom, Ossian - 44, 145 Siemens, Sir Charles - 18 Stirling, James - 2 Stirling, Robert - 2 Sunpower Inc. - 28, 83, 110, Thermo-Electron Corp Trinity Lighthouse Service van Weenan, Ir West, Colin - 232, 235 Westware Co Wood - 86, 100, 112