Experimental Performance of a Single Stage Superfluid Stirling Refrigerator Using a Small Plastic Recuperator

Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 201-212

  Patel, Ashok B ^a   Brisson, J G ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT EXCHANGERS; ISOTOPES; RECUPERATORS; STIRLING CYCLE; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

SUPERFLUID STIRLING REFRIGERATORS;

REFRIGERATORS;

EID: 0032045788     PISSN: 00222291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1022258527141     Document Type: Article

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