Sensorless control of a thermoacoustic refrigerator

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 288-293

  Shearer, Tony L ^a,b   Hofmann, Heath F ^a   Smith, Robert W M ^a   Garrett, Steven L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; SENSORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRODYNAMIC SOUNDS; RESONANCE FREQUENCY;

REFRIGERATORS;

ACOUSTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRIGERATOR; SENSOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; TECHNIQUE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 3142752774     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1756612     Document Type: Conference Paper

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