in this study, fluid flow and energy separation in a micro-scale ranque-hilschvortex tube are numerically investigated. the flow is assumed as 2d, steady,compressible ideal gas, and shear-stress-transport sst k-w is found to be a bestchoice for modeling of turbulence phenomena. the results are in a good agreementwith the experimental results reported in the literature. the results show that flu...

  In this study, fluid flow and energy separation in a micro-scale Ranque-HilschVortex Tube are numerically investigated. The flow is assumed as 2D, steady,compressible ideal gas, and shear-stress-transport SST k-W is found to be a bestchoice for modeling of turbulence phenomena. The results are in a good agreementwith the experimental results reported in the literature. The results show that f...

Using theoretical and computational methods we obtain these findings: 1) In micro-confined high-pressure transcritical turbulence, higher than typical levels of vorticity are observed in the viscous sublayer; 2) Flow topologies from far-wall regions vicinity supercritical gas-like wall; 3) Tube-like flow motions favored at scales comparable to density-gradient scale, resulting a smaller number ...

a brass vortex tube (vt) with interchangeable parts is used to determine the optimum cold end orifice diameter, main tube length and diameter. experiments were carried out to study the effects of operating pressure as well. it is shown that there is an optimum value for cold end orifice diameter, which is equal to 4mm and there is an optimum value for cold and hot exit temperature difference at...

In this paper free convection from a horizontal isothermal elliptic tube placed in a micropolar fluid with its major axis vertical is investigated. The governing equations are based on the conservation of mass, linear momentum, angular momentum and energy. The full governing equations written in stream function-vorticity formulation are solved numerically using the Spectral method based on Four...

The streamwise and transverse velocities are measured simultaneously in isotropic grid turbulence at relatively high Reynolds numbers Re(lambda) approximately 110-330. Using a conditional averaging technique, we extract typical intermittency patterns that are consistent with velocity profiles of a model for a vortex tube, i.e., Burgers vortex. The radii of the vortex tubes are several of the Ko...

The importance of renewable energy sources for the electrical power supply has grown rapidly in the past decades. Their often unpredictable nature however poses a threat to the stability of the existing electric grid. Hydroelectric powerplants play an important role in regulating the integration of renewable energy sources into the network by supplying on-demand load balancing as well as primar...

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Vortex tube is a simple energy separation device, also known as Ranque tube or Hilsch tube, which can separate a high-pressure stream into two different hot and cold streams. Since its simple structure and unique temperature separation characteristics, vortex tube has been widely used in various industries. In recent years, with the in-depth study of the vortex tube, it has been found that comp...