This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Search
Skip to Search Results-
Fall 2020
Development of a lab-scale heat exchanger with increased mesh to tube contact area was accomplished by flattening tubing prior to attaching wire mesh. This novel heat exchanger prototype utilizes thermal sprayed coating to attach wire mesh onto tubing surfaces instead of conventional brazing or...
-
Fall 2022
This dissertation numerically evaluates the performance of targeted wall-shape pipe inserts on reducing heat convection and frictional drag of turbulent pipeflow at a range of Reynolds numbers, Re = 2.5 × 10^4 − 7.5 × 10^4. The wall modifications are constructed to closely follow three...
-
Validation and Testing of a Numerical Model for the Design and Up-Scaling of Low Temperature Difference Stirling Engines
DownloadSpring 2023
This thesis presents the experimental validation, testing and review of a numerical model for low temperature difference Stirling engines (LTDSEs). The research of LTDSEs is motivated by the potential use of low temperature heat as an unconventional sustainable energy source. An experimental...