Traveling-Wave Thermoacoustic Engines: Some Theory and Applications
Friday, March 1, 2002 4:00 p.m. Dr. Scott Backhaus Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics Group Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.lanl.gov/thermoacoustics Thermoacoustic engines are a class of heat engines that convert high-temperature heat into acoustic power without the use of moving parts. Recent innovations in thermoacoustics now allow the use of Stirling-like thermodynamic cycles in thermoacoustic…