Detailed study of a traveling wave thermoacoustic refrigerator driven by a traveling wave thermoacoustic engine

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2686-2692

  Dai, Wei ^a   Luo, Ercang ^a   Zhang, Yong ^b   Ling, Hong ^b  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THERMODYNAMICS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

THERMOACOUSTIC ENGINES; THERMOACOUSTIC REFRIGERATORS; THERMOACOUSTIC THEORY; TRAVELING WAVE THERMOACOUSTICS;

REFRIGERATING MACHINERY;

COPPER; HELIUM; STAINLESS STEEL;

ACOUSTICS; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COOLING; GEOMETRY; HEAT EXCHANGE; LINEAR SYSTEM; LINEAR THERMOACOUSTIC THEORY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRIGERATOR; SIMULATION; SOUND INTENSITY; THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRAVELING WAVE THERMOACOUSTIC ENGINE; TRAVELING WAVE THERMOACOUSTIC REFRIGERATOR; TUBE;

EID: 33646452921     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2184267     Document Type: Article

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