Stability analysis of thermally induced spontaneous gas oscillations in straight and looped tubes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 851-858

  Ueda, Yuki ^a   Kato, Chisachi ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; ELASTIC WAVES; GASES; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

CRITICAL VALUES; GAS OSCILLATIONS; LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; LOOPED-TUBE; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY LIMITS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; TRANSFER-MATRIX METHODS; TUBE WALLS;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GAS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOSTABILITY; TUBE; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASES; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOTION; OSCILLOMETRY; PRESSURE; SOUND; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 49249122086     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2939134     Document Type: Article

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