1. Introduction -- 2. Unsteady flow and heat transfer theory -- 3. Correlations for steady/unsteady fluid flow and heat transfer -- 4. Fundamentals of operation and types of stirling devices, with descriptions of some sample devices (including power and cooling levels) -- 5. Types of stirling engine regenerators -- 6. Random-fiber regenerators : actual scale -- 7. Random-fiber regenerator : large scale -- 8. Segmented-involute-foil regenerator : actual scale -- 9. Segmented-involute-foil regenerator : large-scale (experiments, analysis, and computational fluid dynamics) -- 10. Mesh sheets and other regenerator matrices -- 11. Applications other than stirling engines -- 12. Summary and conclusions -- 13. Future work.