Temperature difference generated in thermo-driven thermoacoustic refrigerator Original Research Article

The work proposes a simple and feasible calculation method––network model method to calculate temperature differences generated in thermo-driven thermoacoustic refrigerator (TAR). The theoretical calculation model is first built. The network model is given and used to make numerical calculations under different conditions including heat-pump stack positions in TAR, different oscillating pressure ratios (PR), plate spacings and different stack geometries. Theoretically calculated results show that the former two factors make significant influence on temperature differences, the influence of stack spacing on temperature difference has relation with PR, and cooling effect of pin-array stack is superior to that of parallel plate stack under other same conditions. Furthermore, theoretically calculated results and experimentally measured data are in good agreement at small acoustic pressure amplitude.