An Identified Study on the Active Network of a Thermoacoustic Regenerator

Guozhong Ding, Feng Wu, Gang Zhou, Xiaoqing Zhang, Jiuyang Yu
DOI: 10.4236/eng.2009.11003                

Abstract

An active thermo-acoustic network model of regenerator which is a key component to accomplish the con-version between thermal-and acoustic power in thermo-acoustic system has been established in this paper. The experiment was carried out to quantify the network. A method called least square is employed in order to identify the H matrix describing the system. The results obtained here show that the active thermo-acoustic network can reliably depict the characteristics of a thermo-acoustic system.

Keywords

Regenerator, Active Network, H Matrix, System Identification

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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