Performance measurements on a thermoacoustic refrigerator driven at high amplitudes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5 I, 2000, Pages 2480-2486

  Poese, Matthew E ^a   Garrett, Steven L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT; REFRIGERATOR;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; AIR CONDITIONING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COOLING; HEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRIGERATOR;

EID: 0034124648     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428635     Document Type: Article

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