The Vortex Tube: Scaling up to Industrial Sizes

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Motivation: it is important to know how large a vortex tube can be made. Energy separation requires a matching of length scales for compressibility, turbulence and vorticity.

Approach: develop a vortex tube with continuously variable internal diameters using cones and disks. Use flow visualization and energy separation measurements to determine maximum tube diameters

Fundamental Issues: There is no clear understanding of length scales associated with the competing phenomena



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