A thermoacoustic stirling heat engine

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6734, 1999, Pages 335-338

  Backhaus, S ^a   Swift, G W ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATOR; ENGINE; HEAT EXCHANGER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENGINEERING; HEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033609385     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20624     Document Type: Article

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