REVIEW ARTICLE
Dynamics Simulation of Stirling Engine for Solar Energy Based on the Time-Varying Support Stiffness
Junzhou Huo1, Hanyang Wu1, Jing Chen*, 2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2014Volume: 8
First Page: 710
Last Page: 715
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-8-710
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01408010710
Article History:
Received Date: 08/01/2015Revision Received Date: 15/01/2015
Acceptance Date: 16/01/2015
Electronic publication date: 31/12/2014
Collection year: 2014
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Abstract
In order to simulate the Stirling engine more easily, the stiffness and damping ratio of the crankshaft bearing are assumed to be steady-state in the research before, but this assumption is contrary to the real condition. Therefore, in this paper, a time-varying stiffness and damping ratio of the crankshaft bearing simulation method has been proposed. Compared with the simulation results of the crankshaft bearings with constant stiffness, the speed fluctuation coefficient of output shaft and crankshaft in time-varying stiffness model is increased by 10%, 24.6% and 13.7%; the vibration displacement of the center mass of output shaft is decreased by 3.0%; the average dynamic load on airframe is increased by 47.9%. From the simulation results, it is found that the time-varying stiffness and damping ratio of the crankshaft bearing is significant to the characteristics of the Stirling engine dynamic response.