Investigation on porous frequency of regenerator of microminiature thermoacoustic refrigerator

Abstract

A new method was proposed to directly measure the effective resistance and distinguish the porous frequency in the regenerator of the microminiature thermoacoustic refrigerator. Measured results were compared with the flux gain factor and transmission loss of the real system. The results show that the agreement between the range of the porous frequency and frequency of the system is good, the method can be used to predict the porous frequency of the regenerator in production.

Keywords

porous frequency / microminiature / thermoacoustic / regenerator

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