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DeltaV
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Post by DeltaV »

Some pulsejet designs remind me of the thermoacoustic Stirling engines developed at LANL. Maybe some of the concepts involved apply to pulsejets.

The key to Stirling engine performance (thermoacoustic or otherwise) is the efficiency of the regenerator.

http://www.lanl.gov/thermoacoustics/TASHE.html
http://www.lanl.gov/thermoacoustics/Pubs/ICSV9.pdf
http://www.lanl.gov/thermoacoustics/Pubs/index.html

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