scholarly journals EFFECT OF END CONTROL PLUGS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF VORTEX TUBE WITH DUAL FORCED VORTEX FLOW

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.Uma Maheswar Gowd
1959 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Lay

This paper reports on an experimental and analytical study of compressible flow in a uniflow vortex tube. Part 1 deals with an experimental study, Part 2 with the analytical study. Its purpose is to provide a better understanding of the separation of a gas stream into regions of high and low stagnation temperatures, there being at present little agreement as to the theory of operation. The problem is first approached from the experimental standpoint. A large, multipurpose vortex tube is so designed and built that pressure, temperature, and velocity traverses can be taken at six different stations throughout the length of the tube. Pressure, temperature, and velocity traverses are taken by means of hypodermic probes. Velocities are checked by means of a miniature hot-wire anemometer. Data are taken for different runs of inlet pressures and plotted against radial distance. Flow visualization is obtained by means of liquid injection. The analytical study consists of using superposition for the solution of the flow equations. It begins with potential vortex flow in the plane. The solution of this flow is characterized by the existence of sonic or limit circles. Superposition of a sink flow to the vortex solution yields a spiral flow in the plane. The general solution in space is obtained by addition of a uniform axial velocity to the spiral flow. When viscosity effects are considered, the potential vortex changes into a forced vortex, and the solution becomes a superposition of a viscous compressible sink to a forced vortex. Performance or stagnation temperature separation is expressed as function of the ratio of vortex strength to sink strength.


2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450023
Author(s):  
G. MARUTHI PRASAD YADAV ◽  
P. MALLIKARJUNA REDDY ◽  
B. UMA MAHESWAR GOWD

The vortex tube is a device, which emanates hot and cold air streams simultaneously at its two ends from a source of pressurized air: warmer, gas leaves near the periphery at one end as a free vortex and colder, gas leaves via an orifice at the opposite end as a forced vortex. The forced vortex strikes back again by design modifications, result in the formation of one more forced vortex flow. Thus, the modified vortex tube is named as dual forced flow vortex tube (DFFVT). Experimental study is carried on temperature separation of DFFVT for varying pressures, mass flow rates and optimum cold fractions at two ends for efficient temperature drop is revealed. The modified vortex tube yields effectual temperature drop through one end at a lower cold fraction meanwhile providing effective cooling at the other end with higher cold fraction and vice versa.


1974 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Robert A. Granger

This paper has two purposes. One is to report the results of some measurements of a steady vortex; the other is to report measurements of a surge in the vortex controlling the withdrawal. The experimental contribution is an empirical formula for the speed of a surge. The surge speed is shown to be proportional to the ambient circulation and inversely proportional to the viscous core radius.


1980 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Escudier ◽  
J. Bornstein ◽  
N. Zehnder

A series of LDA measurements and visual observations of confined turbulent vortex flow are described. The experiments were performed with water as the fluid medium in a vortex tube of length-to-diameter ratio L/D = 3.8 for a range of exit diameters De between De/D = 1 and 0.18. The experiments reveal a remarkable change in the vortex structure as De is reduced: from a thick core with an axial-velocity defect in the centre, and even reversed flow, to a thin annular jet-like core with a peak axial velocity more than an order of magnitude greater than the average value and again a central velocity deficit. The corresponding swirl profiles are not remarkable and are well-represented under all conditions by the solution of Burgers (1948), albeit with a velocity maximum which is strongly dependent upon De.


2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 1054-1058
Author(s):  
Sheng Wei Song ◽  
Zi Peng Wang ◽  
Chen Sheng Yang

In order to study the internal gas flow of Y type branch pipes in the exhaust ventilation conditions, the branch pipe is simulated by using FLUENT software. Combined with experimental results, comparatively analyze exhaust ventilation pressure, velocity and vortex flow of the branch pipe. The results show that simulation and experimental data consistent overall trend, the difference is less than 8%, the main entrance pressure of the branch pipeline decreases with the width of the leakage increasing, leakage width of 0 mm, 1 mm, 2 mm cases, there is vortex tube, and valve and the main ventilation pipe case gas exchange occurs when no leakage, this study provides a theoretical and practical basis for further analysis of branch pipe exhaust ventilation.


2000 ◽  
Vol 005.2 (0) ◽  
pp. 83-84
Author(s):  
Michihiro NISHI ◽  
Kouichi YOSHIDA ◽  
Kouji YAMASAKI ◽  
Kenji KOJIMA

Author(s):  
P. L. Betts ◽  
Y-K. Yue

The swirling flow inside certain types of internal combustion engine depends in a complex way on a large number of variables. The steady flow of air through a cylinder, which reproduces the main features of an induction swirl engine cylinder, has been investigated. The pressure drop across the inlet ports, the port inclination, and the port opening were varied independently while other variables were held constant. For each condition, tangential velocities were measured and axial velocity directions observed over cross-sections of the cylinder. The results have been compared with a simplified hypothesis of R. S. Benson and with theories of the Ranque–Hilsch vortex tube.


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