Experiments with an Intrinsically Irreversible Acoustic Heat Engine
- 14 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (7) , 499-502
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.499
Abstract
The general qualities of a type of thermodynamic engine that depends intrinsically for its operation on irreversible processes are set forth and demonstrated experimentally in the context of a thermoacoustic heat-pumping engine.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Experiments on thermally driven acoustic oscillations of gaseous heliumJournal of Low Temperature Physics, 1980
- Minimum entropy production and the optimization of heat enginesPhysical Review A, 1980
- ThermoacousticsPublished by Elsevier ,1980
- A pistonless Stirling engine—The traveling wave heat engineThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1979
- On the efficiency of rate processes. Power and efficiency of heat enginesThe Journal of Chemical Physics, 1978
- Thermodynamics in finite time: extremals for imperfect heat enginesThe Journal of Chemical Physics, 1977
- Thermoacoustic effects in a resonance tubeJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 1975
- Thermally driven acoustic oscillations, part III: Second-order heat fluxZeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik, 1975
- Damped and thermally driven acoustic oscillations in wide and narrow tubesZeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik, 1969
- Ueber die Schallschwingungen der Luft in erhitzten Glasröhren und in gedeckten Pfeifen von ungleicher WeiteAnnalen der Physik, 1850