Tutorial
"Thermoacoustic Engines" G. W. Swift, JASA 84(4):1145-1180, October
1988. This is a technical tutorial paper published in the Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America, see
the ASA Web site for more information.
Textbook
The definitive textbook is Thermoacoustics: a unifying
perspective for some engines and refrigerators by
G. W. Swift, published by the Acoustical Society of America, 2002
(ISBN 0-7354-0065-2). It's available for purchase online, the cost is
USD $70.00 but the investment is well worth it, for anyone seriously
interested in thermoacoustic engines.
See the
Table of Contents and Preface here.
Simulation software
Los Alamos National Laboratory maintains a
Web site
for their work in thermoacoustics. The simulation software, called
DeltaE, is available for download (with some restrictions), and it
also comes on a CD-ROM with the textbook above. The DeltaE manual
is available at
this Web site.
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