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Thermoacoustic converters

Author: Philippe NIKA

Publication date: October 10, 2008

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6. Performance optimization

6.1 Finite-time thermodynamics (FTT) optimization of a standing-wave system

To simplify the presentation, we have chosen here the case of a closed half-wave thermoacoustic engine (standing wave) shown in figure . The hot and cold exchangers, imposing the thermal gradient of the stack, are supplied by fluids with respective thermal flows (G•c)H and (G•c)C...

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