Thermoacoustic power conversion using a piezoelectric transducer

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 98-103

  Jensen, Carl ^a   Raspet, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNOT EFFICIENCY; COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY; LOW-AMPLITUDE; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; PIEZOELECTRIC UNIMORPH; STANDING WAVE; THERMOACOUSTIC DEVICES; THERMOACOUSTIC ENGINES; THERMOACOUSTIC POWER; THERMOACOUSTICS; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; UNIVERSITY OF UTAH; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; WASTE HEAT;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; POWER SUPPLY; PRESSURE; SOUND; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSDUCER; DEVICES;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRESSURE; SOUND; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77955221318     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3409370     Document Type: Article

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