Stirling and Pulse-tube Cryo-coolers

Subject Index

Acoustic:

coordinates 13.18, 13.20

speed 1.11, 12.3, 14.7

streaming 10.19, 10.2

theory 10.2

Adiabatic free-stream 10.18

Admittance 12.4

Ampère's circuitial law 5.8

Approximate:

regenerator analysis 5.19

wave transverse times 11.23

Arbitrary number of duct elements 15.5

ARCOPTR 16.5, 16.6

simulation 16.2

Area:

discontinuity 15.28

transition 15.24

Back emf 5.6

Basic:

pulse-tube 1.8, 14.11

reference cycle 3.2

Beale number 6.20

Boundary layer 1.8-1.10, 1.14, 10.11, 10.15, 10.16, 10.18-10.20

driving function 10.10

velocity distribution 10.12

viscous 1.12

B-type cooler 1.1, 1.3

Buffer-space pressure 5.4

Buzz, reheat 15.31

Carnot:

COP 3.6

cycle 1.1, 1.9

Centre-line temperature 10.28

C_f–N_re correlations App. B.3

Characteristic:

coordinates 14.6

directions 11.4, 12.1, 13.13

equations, full complement of 14.5

paths 1.13

Reynolds number N_RE 1.20, 6.21, 6.24

temperature ratio 1.20

CILTEC cryo-cooler survey 16.2

Classic regenerator problem 1.16, 8.1

Coefficient of:

dynamic viscosity 9.14

Performance (COP) 1.1, 1.11, 2.9, 2.24, 6.20

Coil, moving 5.7

Co-factor method 11.28

Coil resistance 5.7

Communicable insight 1.10, 6.26

Complete ideal cycle 3.11

Complex sound speed 15.1, 15.5

Compression-end dead space

additional 2.8

dimensionless additional 2.9

ratio, volumetric 3.4

Compression space 1.7

extra dead volume 2.6

Comprex 1.12

super-charger 11.4

Conservation:

equations of the boundary

layer 10.14

of mass 13.11

Cook-book method of thermodynamic design 6.1

Cool-down curve, staged ...