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4. Working fluid
The fluids used in thermoacoustics must have as low a viscosity as possible to limit viscous friction losses, and a high thermal conductivity to facilitate convective heat transfer from the gas. These fluids must therefore have a small Prandtl number
. This Prandtl number also represents the ratio between viscous and thermal boundary layer thicknesses:
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