• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2015

Vortex tube is a thermal static device that separates compressed air into hot and cold streams. In general, the cooling efficiency of vortex tubes is lower than that of traditional air conditioning equipment and vortex tubes are mainly used for industrial spot cooling applications because of their quick responses. In this study, conical frustums are employed in the nozzle chamber to improve the cooling performance. Conical frustums can be used to decrease the ineffective mass fraction that directly passes through the cold exit without energy separation. The shape optimization of conical frustums has been performed using full factorial design. It is found that the height of frustums has the largest main effects on the cooling performance. Computational results show that the cooling performance can be increased by about 10% within the considered range of the design parameters. This is because the ineffective mass fraction toward the cold exit is decreased by about 20%.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.1149-1155
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• 2001

The experimental investigation on energy separation in a vortex tube has been carried out to sow the effect of inlet and outlet pressures with various working fluids(air,$O_2,\;and\; CO_2$). Those outlet pressure means cold outlet and hot outlet pressure which were set equally. The results showed that the total enthalpy variation became a maximum when the mass flow rate at the cold outlet was a half of the total mass flow rate in the vortex tube (y=0.5). The total enthalpy variation was quite affected by the pressure difference between the inlet and outlet of vortex tube when the ratio of the inlet pressure to the cold outlet pressure remained constant. Although specific enthalpy differences between the inlet and the outlet (both cold and hot outlet) did not noticeably vary with the pressure difference, the specific enthalpy difference between the inlet and cold outlet was dominantly affected by physical properties of working gases.

• 에너지공학
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.268-275
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• 1993

수치해석 방법에 의해 큐백시의 스토커 소각로 유동장을 분석하였다. 수치모사의 변수는 큐백시의 스토커 소각로를 중심으로 한 5가지 내부 형상, 1차공기 속도, 2차공기 속도 및 주입각, 출구면적을 고려하였다. 검사체적에 기초한 Patankar의 유한차분 방법을 사용한 본 논문에서는 power-law scheme과 SIMPLEC 알고리즘을 사용했으며 난류 유동은 표준 k-e 모델을 이용했다. 소각로 유동장 분석을 위해서 재순환 영역의 크기, 난류 점성계수 및 이차공기의 질량분율 분포, 압력강하를 계산했다. 계산 결과는 물리적 의미에 잘 맞게 나타났으며, 큐백시의 스토커 소각로가 다른 내부 형상의 소각로에 비해 상부에 강한 난류를 가진 재순환 영역을 형성하였다.