Oscillatory Flow in Thermoacoustic Sound Wave Generator

• 来源期刊: 热科学学报（英文版）
• 学科: 工学
• 年，卷（期）: 2006,（1）
• 页码范围: 92-96
• 页数: 5页
• 分类号: TK11.4
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Oscillatory flow in a thermoacoustic sound wave generator is described. The thermoacoustic sound wave generator plays an important role in thermoacoustic equipment. The heat exchange between the working fluid and the stack, the acceleration and deceleration of the working fluid and viscous friction loss both in the stack and in the resonance tube influence the performance of the thermoacoustic sound wave generator. Particularly,oscillatory flow significantly influences the heat exchange mechanism between the working fluid and the stack.Temporal changes in pressure and velocity are sinusoidal inside the resonance tube. Flow forms an oscillatory jet just behind the tube outlet, and becomes intermittent far downstream outside the resonance tube. The open-end corrections of 0.63R, that is, the region where oscillatory flow characteristics are maintained downstream in spite of being outside the tube outlet, are confirmed by velocity measurements and flow visualization. Also, they are almost equal to acoustical theoretical results.