Thermodynamic cycles executed in a looped-tube thermoacoustic engine (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3369-3372

  Ueda, Yuki ^a   Biwa, Tetsushi ^a   Mizutani, Uichiro ^a   Yazaki, Taichi ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; ENGINES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

HEAT FLOW; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; THERMOACOUSTIC ENGINES; THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES;

THERMODYNAMICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ENERGY CONVERSION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY;

EID: 20444425298     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1904503     Document Type: Article

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