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Resonant oscillations in closed tubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

W. Chester
W. Chester
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Now at Department of Mathematics, Bristol University.
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Abstract

An investigation is made of the disturbances produced in a closed, gas-filled tube by the oscillations of a piston at one end, when the piston oscillates at near resonant frequencies. Within a well-defined frequency band around each resonant frequency, shock waves appear in the solution; outside this interval the oscillations are continuous, but not purely sinusoidal.

The solution includes the effects of compressive viscosity, and of shear viscosity in the boundary layer at the walls of the tube. For typical laboratory conditions the effect of compressive viscosity is found to be quite small (giving a shock thickness of the order of 10−4in.). The boundary layer effect can be more significant, though the most important modification required of the usual acoustic theory is found to arise from the non-linear terms.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1964 , pp. 44 - 64
Copyright
© 1964 Cambridge University Press

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