We develop a first-principles model of the regenerator component of a generic Stirling engine. The model is based on the Euler equations of one dimensional gas dynamics coupled with its convective/conductive heat transfer with the embedded mesh material. We investigate various methods for deriving simpler and low order control-oriented models from this first principles model. The basic criterio...

Memristors have pinched hysteresis loops in the V − I plane. Ideal memristors are everywhere non-linear, cross at zero and are rotationally symmetric. In this paper we extend memristor theory to produce different types of non-ideality and find that: including a background current (such as an ionic current) moves the crossing point away from zero; including a degradation resistance (that increas...

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213-3890 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213-3890 3 Isotherm Technologies LLC, Medina, OH, USA 44256-6431 ABSTRACT A new Stirling micro-refrigeration system composed of arrays of silicon MEMS cooling elements has been designed and evalu...

Along with the widely use in industries and lives, the dehumidification systems have consumed a large amount of energy. Fortunately, the application of liquid desiccant dehumidification system can greatly reduce the consumption of high-grade energy. To improve the advantages of liquid desiccant system compared with the conventional dehumidification system, one of the key measures is to increase...

A nominal 10.5-kW (3-ton) open-cycle liquid desiccant d ehumidification system has been design_ed, installed, and successfully operated at the Solar Energy Applications Laboratory, Colorado State Umvers1ty. Packed bed units were used to dry the air in the dehumidifier and to concentrate the desiccant _m the regenerator. Liquid distribution in the regenerator was studied for two systems: a gravi...

let $r$ be a commutative ring with identity. an ideal $i$ of a ring $r$is called an annihilating ideal if there exists $rin rsetminus {0}$ such that $ir=(0)$ and an ideal $i$ of$r$ is called an essential ideal if $i$ has non-zero intersectionwith every other non-zero ideal of $r$. thesum-annihilating essential ideal graph of $r$, denoted by $mathcal{ae}_r$, isa graph whose vertex set is the set...

Most studies addressing translucent network design targeted a tradeoff between minimizing the number of deployed regenerators and minimizing the number of regeneration sites. The latter highly depends on the carrier’s strategy and is motivated by various considerations such as power consumption, maintenance and supervision costs. However, concentrating regenerators into a small number of nodes ...

In this study we introduce the regenerator location problem in flexible optical networks (RLP-FON). With a given traffic demand, RLP-FON tries to solve the regenerator placement, routing, bandwidth allocation and modulation selection problems jointly to satisfy data transfer demands with the minimum number of regenerators. We propose a novel branch and price algorithm for this challenging probl...