A Stirling engine is a special type of engine, which works in a closed system, and implements cooled compression and heated expansion, so that Thermoptim's usual performance indicators cannot be used directly: purchased energy is the sum of the heat supplied to the hot source (in this example a solar concentrator) and that supplied during the expansion.

The objective we assign to the driver is to draw up a summary table of the energies involved in the engine, in the form of heat or mechanical power, and to calculate the cycle efficiency.

You will find in the files below the various documents defining the external class:

• Presentation of the model

• Instructions for use of the class

• Java code of the external class

• extUser.zip or extUser2.zip file containing the class

• Project and diagram files of an example