NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A THREE-STAGE STIRLING-TYPE PULSE TUBE CRYOCOOLER FOR 4K OPERATION
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A THREE-STAGE STIRLING-TYPE PULSE TUBE CRYOCOOLER FOR 4K OPERATION
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DOI:
10.1063/1.2908518
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2008-03
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J. Y. Hu;W. Dai;E. Luo;Zhongbin Wu
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J. Y. Hu;W. Dai;E. Luo;Zhongbin Wu
The thermoacoustically driven two-stage pulse tube cooler has recently reached a lowest temperature of about 18.1K in our lab, and we are now developing a three-stage Stirling-type pulse tube cooler working at about 4K to match the thermoacoustic engine. In this paper, thermoacoustic theory is employed to simulate the three-stage pulse tube cooler. In order to decrease the cooling power losses of the second and third stage cold tips, two thermal bridges are introduced on the first and second stage cold tips to cool down the second and the third stage pulse tubes. Thus, the temperature gradients in the pulse tubes near the cold tips decrease, so do the cooling power losses through the thermal conductivity of the pulse tubes. After numerical optimization, the pulse tube cooler reaches a cooling temperature of 3.87K with 207 Watts of input acoustic power.