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- Contains access to computer animations (available as supplementary material for Chapter 1) and DeltaEC examples
- Written by the undisputed leader in thermoacoustics
- Represents a gateway into the field of thermoacoustics for engineers and acousticians alike
- Bridges the fields of acoustics and thermodynamics, opening up new technological possibilities
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This updated new edition provides an introduction to the field of thermoacoustics. All of the key aspects of the topic are introduced, with the goal of helping the reader to acquire both an intuitive understanding and the ability to design hardware, build it, and assess its performance. Weaving together intuition, mathematics, and experimental results, this text equips readers with the tools to bridge the fields of thermodynamics and acoustics. At the same time, it remains firmly grounded in experimental results, basing its discussions on the distillation of a body of experiments spanning several decades and countries.
The book begins with detailed treatment of the fundamental physical laws that underlie thermoacoustics. It then goes on to discuss key concepts, including simple oscillations, waves, power, and efficiency. The remaining portions of the book delve into more advanced topics and address practical concerns in applications chapters on hardware and
measurements. With its careful progression and end-of-chapter exercises, this book will appeal to graduate students in physics and engineering as well as researchers and practitioners in either acoustics or thermodynamics looking to explore the possibilities of thermoacoustics. This revised and expanded second edition has been updated with an eye to modern technology, including computer animations and DeltaEC examples.Keywords
- integrated thermoacoustic process engineering
- thermoacoustics textbook
- thermoacoustic engine
- thermoacoustic refrigerator
- oscillating thermal diffusion
- standing-wave heat engine
- orifice pulse-tube refrigerator
- inviscid boundary-layer thermoacoustics
- acoustic power calculation
- electroacoustic power transducers
- thermoacoustic lumped-element model
- Los Alamos DeltaEC software
Reviews
(Quote for the First Edition)
“Swift begins a textbook that employs 21st century pedagogical tools to introduce students and researchers to a 21st century technology. … The complete and systematic exposition of thermoacoustic theory and experimental technique in this new textbook should make Swift’s understanding accessible to a far wider group of scientists and engineers who can go on to exploit that understanding and produce practical devices while contributing to the extension of that understanding by bringing their expertise from outside ‘acoustics’ into thermoacoustics.” (StevenL. Garrett, Journal of the Acoustical Society, Vol. 113, May, 2003)
Authors and Affiliations
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
Gregory W. Swift
About the author
At Los Alamos, Greg has mentored two Master’s students, three Ph.D. students, and 13 postdocs, and enjoyed significant partnerships with ten corporate collaborators. He is co-author (or, occasionally, sole author) of about 100 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is responsible for two dozen patents, and the thermoacoustics design and analysis software most commonly used worldwide—DeltaEC.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thermoacoustics
Book Subtitle: A Unifying Perspective for Some Engines and Refrigerators
Authors: Gregory W. Swift
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66933-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Acoustical Society of America 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66932-8Published: 18 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88348-9Published: 25 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66933-5Published: 05 October 2017
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXI, 326
Number of Illustrations: 106 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Acoustics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Energy Harvesting, Engineering Acoustics, Thermodynamics