On the influence of transducer heating in underwater ultrasonic thrusters

20th International Congress on Acoustics 2010, ICA 2010 - Incorporating Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 371-377

  Tan, Alfred C H ^a   Hover, Franz S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENERGY; ACOUSTIC POWER; ACOUSTICAL ENERGY; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; ELECTRICAL POWER; FLUID MOVEMENT; HEAT ENERGY; HIGH ELECTRICAL POWER; MOMENTUM FLUX; NAKED-EYE; THRUST FORCES; TRANSDUCER SURFACE; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY;

ELECTRICITY; HEAT LOSSES; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; ULTRASONICS;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84869106616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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