The working principle of a vortex tube

International Journal of Refrigeration

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1730-1740

  Xue, Yunpeng ^a   Arjomandi, Maziar ^a   Kelso, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analysis; Exergy; Multi circulation; Ranque effect; Thermal separation; Vortex flow

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; MEASUREMENT OF VELOCITY; MULTI-CIRCULATION; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; RANQUE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE DROPS; THERMAL SEPARATION;

AIR; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXERGY; FLOW STRUCTURE;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84883134220     PISSN: 01407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2013.04.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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