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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
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Numerical prediction of performance of a low-temperature-differential gamma-type Stirling engine

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Pages 1770-1785 | Received 02 Sep 2018, Accepted 19 Dec 2018, Published online: 05 Mar 2019

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