Thermoacoustics

Springer Handbooks

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 239-255

  Swift, Gregory ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic Power; Axial Temperature Gradient; Heat Exchanger; Pulse Combustion; Stirling Engine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982946805     PISSN: 25228692     EISSN: 25228706     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-30425-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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