| Budget Amount *help |
¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this project is to establish a theoretical framework based on the fluid dynamics, aiming at clarification of thermoacoustic phenomena and promotion of their application to practical heat engines. Marginal conditions of instability for a gas subject to temperature gradient have been examined analytically by using the boundary (thin diffusion)-layer theory and the thick diffusion-layer thoery derived by the general thermoacoustic-wave equation. Also examined in parallel to this study is effects of heat conductivity in a solid on the thermoacoustic-wave equation.
Using the boundary-layer theory, marginal conditions of a symmetric mode of Taconis oscillations and of oscillations in a looped tube have been obtained. The thick diffusion-layer theory is also applied to marginal conditions of the gas in the stack in the looped tube. It has been shown that both theories are very useful not only in derivation of the marginal conditions but also in understanding the phenomena.
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