Reinventing the engine

Steven L. Garrett ()
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Steven L. Garrett: the Graduate Program in Acoustics, Pennsylvania State University

Nature, 1999, vol. 399, issue 6734, 303-305

Abstract: Glass-blowers have known for centuries that a heated vessel can generate sound. Thermoacoustic energy conversion can now be made as efficient as energy conversion in an internal-combustion engine — a feat that has been accomplished in a device with no moving parts.

Date: 1999
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