Thermoacoustic prime movers and refrigerators: Thermally powered engines without moving components

T Jin, J Huang, Y Feng, R Yang, K Tang, R Radebaugh - Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermoacoustic engines attract much attention for their lack of moving parts and relatively
benign environmental impact. In this review, an introduction of the thermoacoustic effect is …

Improving thermoacoustic low-temperature heat recovery systems

Z Yang, V Korobko, M Radchenko, R Radchenko - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The existence and development of modern society require significant amounts of available
energy. Combustion engines are the main sources of heat. Their operation is accompanied …

Prediction of heat exchanger performance in cryogenic oscillating flow conditions by support vector machine

J Huang, T Jin, M Liang, H Chen - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Heat transfer characteristics in cryogenic oscillating flow is essential to the development of
high-efficiency cryocoolers. In this study, the heat exchanger performance in cryogenic …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of operating conditions on heat transfer for parallel plate heat exchangers of thermoacoustic standing wave systems

FAZM Saat, AJ Jaworski, A Hamood - International Journal of Thermofluids, 2024 - Elsevier
Thermoacoustic systems represent a promising technology for clean cooling and/or power
generation. However, understanding of the behavior of oscillatory flow inside the system …

Prediction of oscillatory heat transfer coefficient for a thermoacoustic heat exchanger through artificial neural network technique

AA Rahman, X Zhang - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2018 - Elsevier
Heat exchangers under oscillatory flow condition in thermoacoustic devices are quite
different with the traditional ones in heat transfer and flow behavior of thermo-viscous fluid …

Thermal optimization of inter-stage heat exchangers distribution in a three-stage cascading pulse tube cooler

W Bo, Y Lu, L Ruize, Z Qinyu, Z Chuangpei… - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
The cascading pulse tube cooler (CPTC) with a transmission tube has the advantages of
high efficiency by energy recovery and high reliability by introducing no extra moving parts …

Experimental study of heat transfer characteristics of finned-tube and circular-pore heat exchangers in oscillatory flow

A Piccolo, AJ Jaworski - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This work is concerned with an experimental investigation of the thermal performance of two
thermoacoustic heat exchangers characterized by different pore geometries, namely a …

Effect of non-linear flow behavior on heat transfer in a thermoacoustic engine core

K Kuzuu, S Hasegawa - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2017 - Elsevier
The non-linear behavior of the temperature field in a thermoacoustic engine core is explored
using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations; the effect of that behavior on heat …

Heat transfer augmentation in unsteady conjugate thermal systems–Part I: Semi-analytical 1-D framework

R Mathie, CN Markides - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the phenomenon of heat transfer augmentation in one-
dimensional unsteady and conjugate fluid–solid systems. The overriding purpose is to …

Comparative performance of thermoacoustic heat exchangers with different pore geometries in oscillatory flow. Implementation of experimental techniques

A Piccolo, R Siclari, F Rando, M Cannistraro - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Heat exchangers (HXs) constitute key components of thermoacoustic devices and play an
important role in determining the overall engine performance. In oscillatory flow conditions …