CFD investigation on characteristics of oscillating flow and heat transfer in 3D pulse tube

Q Dai, Y Chen, L Yang - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2015 - Elsevier
A CFD method is used to investigate the three dimensional oscillating flow and heat transfer
in the pulse tube (PT) and heat exchangers (HEs) of a pulse tube refrigerator (PTR). Some …

Impacts of the regenerative effect of the aftercooler on compression chamber efficiency

S Zhang, S Zhu - Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 2024 - Elsevier
Stirling-type pulse tube cryocoolers (SPTCs) have seen widespread deployment in high-
temperature superconductivity and hydrogen liquefaction applications. Aftercoolers are …

Shuttle loss in pulse tubes

LW Yang - Cryocoolers 11, 2001 - Springer
Pulse tube refrigerators have the unique feature of a hollow tube replacing the cold piston.
This paper analyzes some losses resulting from this hollow tube due to the oscillating flow; …

CFD investigation on the characteristics of annular pulse tube

X Pang, W Dai, X Wang, S Ma - International Journal of Refrigeration, 2020 - Elsevier
CFD models are used to study the performance of circular and annular pulse tubes working
at 77–300 K. The oscillating flow and heat transfer characteristics are investigated. In terms …

Two-dimensional model for tapered pulse tubes: Part 3: unsteady components of second-order mass flux and temperature

HC Park, ES Jeong, S Jeong - Cryogenics, 2002 - Elsevier
Unsteady components of the second-order axial velocity and temperature within a tapered
pulse tube were obtained by using a hybrid method of solution. In this method, the unsteady …

Numerical study of pulse-tube flow

Y Hozumi, M Murakami… - TEION KOGAKU (Journal …, 1998 - jstage.jst.go.jp
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Temperature measurement in pulse tube with Rayleigh scattering and computation of enthalpy flow

Y Hagiwara, K Nara, S Ito, T Saito - Cryogenics, 1999 - Elsevier
As for pulse tube refrigerators, it is difficult to understand the phenomena in pulse tube
because gas in the pulse tube oscillates exchanging heat with wall. Therefore, it is …

Visualization study of oscillating flow inside a pulse tube refrigerator

N Nakamura, M Shiraishi, K Seo… - Advances in cryogenic …, 1998 - Springer
The flow inside typical pulse tube refrigerators which are a basic, an orifice and a double
inlet type, has been observed by the visualization technique to investigate the effects of …

Study of Temperature Measurement in a Pulse Tube with Rayleigh Scattering

S ITO, Y HAGIWARA, K NARA - TEION KOGAKU (Journal of …, 1998 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Temperature measurement in a pulse tube is important to understand the gas behavior in
particular. However, it has not been measured with few exceptions. In this paper, we …

Visualization Study of Flow Behavior in Pulse Tube Refrigerators

M SHIRAISHI, N NAKAMURA… - … KOGAKU (Journal of …, 1998 - jstage.jst.go.jp
We tried to observe the flow behavior in typical pulse tube refrigerators(ie, basic, orifice and
double-inlet pulse tube refrigerators) using a smoke-wire flow visualization technique, and …