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In reciprocating cryorefrigerators using small thermal regenerators such as the Stirling-cycle, Vuilleumier-cycle, Solvay-cycle, and Gifford-McMahon-cycle devices, performance is a very complicated function of many variables. Even for the simplest single-stage systems, the number of variables is about twenty-five. Also, in making any performance calculation, one has to make a large number of assumptions or approximations.
Work sponsored by the Engineering Energetics Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant No. GK 3972.
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Ackermann, R.A., Gifford, W.E. (1971). A Heat-Balance Analysis of a Gifford-McMahon Cryorefrigerator. In: Timmerhaus, K.D. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, vol 16. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0244-6_27
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