Traveling-wave thermoacoustic refrigerator driven by a multistage traveling-wave thermoacoustic engine

Design of a Traveling Wave Thermoacoustic Engine Driven Cooler with Hybrid Configuration

Kees de Blok proposed a “hybrid configuration” travelling wave thermoacoustic engine and his prototype using atmosphere air as the working gas achieved an onset temperature difference as low as 65 K. However, no further research work has been reported on this type of thermoacoustic engine to reveal whether this type of engine can achieve higher efficiency, or how to couple it with acoustic load...

Optimization of thermoacoustic engine driven thermoacoustic refrigerator using response surface methodology

Thermoacoustic engines (TAEs) are devices which convert heat energy into useful acoustic work whereas thermoacoustic refrigerators (TARs) convert acoustic work into temperature gradient. These devices work without any moving component. Study presented here comprises of a combination system i.e. thermoacoustic engine driven thermoacoustic refrigerator (TADTAR). This system has no moving componen...

A hot air driven thermoacoustic-Stirling engine

Some traveling wave solutions of soliton family

Solitons are ubiquitous and exist in almost every area from sky to bottom. For solitons to appear, the relevant equation of motion must be nonlinear. In the present study, we deal with the Korteweg-deVries (KdV), Modied Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) and Regularised LongWave (RLW) equations using Homotopy Perturbation method (HPM). The algorithm makes use of the HPM to determine the initial expansion...

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...