Thermodynamic analysis of a thermoacoustic travelling wave engine

Construction and Performance Characterization of the Looped-Tube Travelling-Wave Thermoacoustic Engine with Ceramic Regenerator

In a travelling wave thermoacoustic device, the regenerator sandwiched between a pair of (hot and cold) heat exchangers constitutes the so-called thermoacoustic core, where the thermoacoustic energy conversion from heat to acoustic power takes place. The temperature gradient along the regenerator caused by the two heat exchangers excites and maintains the acoustic wave in the resonator. The dev...

A cascade thermoacoustic engine.

A cascade thermoacoustic engine is described, consisting of one standing-wave stage plus two traveling-wave stages in series. Most of the acoustic power is produced in the efficient traveling-wave stages. The straight-line series configuration is easy to build and allows no Gedeon streaming. The engine delivers up to 2 kW of acoustic power, with an efficiency (the ratio of acoustic power to hea...

Watching a Travelling Wave Watching a Travelling Wave

Travelling waves are a feature of many spatio-temporal series. The use of single side band filtering and the complex singular value decomposition to isolate such waves is described. As with other applications of the singular value decomposition, such as principal components, the results can be difficult to interpret. In the case of travelling waves, however, a dynamic graphical display using co...

A hot air driven thermoacoustic-Stirling engine

1aEA2. Finite element simulation of a two-dimensional standing wave thermoacoustic engine

Thermoacoustic engines use heat to produce acoustic power. The subject of this manuscript is modeling of thermoacoustic engines. A finite element simulation has been performed on a theoretical example of a two-dimensional standing wave thermoacoustic engine. The simulation solves the linearized Navier-Stokes equations in the frequency domain. The analysis is used to obtain the (thermo)acoustic ...