Vortex tubes are used for cooling of cutting tools ( lathes and mills, both manually-operated and CNC machines ) during machining.
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This approach is based on first-principles physics alone and is not limited to vortex tubes only, but applies to moving gas in general.
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Dedicated to empirical details, for a long time the empirical studies made the vortex tube effect appear enigmatic and its explanation a matter of debate.
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Aerodynamic enrichment processes include the Becker jet nozzle techniques developed by E . W . Becker and associates using the LIGA process and the vortex tube separation process.
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In a vortex tube, the cylindrical surrounding wall confines the flow at periphery and thus forces conversion of kinetic into internal energy, which produces hot air at the hot exit.
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A "'vortex tube "'is the surface in the continuum formed by all vortex-lines passing through a given ( reducible ) closed curve in the continuum.
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The " vortex tube effect " is fully explained with the work equation of Euler, also known as Euler's turbine equation, which can be written in its most general vectorial form as:
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The spiral streaks that are taken to be streamlines are in fact clouds of the marker fluid that originally spanned several vortex tubes and were stretched into spiral shapes by the non-uniform flow velocity distribution.
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It is a consequence of Helmholtz's theorems ( or equivalently, of Kelvin's circulation theorem ) that in an inviscid fluid the'strength'of the vortex tube is also constant with time.
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The thermal process in the vortex tube can be estimated in the following way : 1 ) The adiabatic expansion of the incoming gas, which cools the gas and turns its heat energy into the kinetic energy of rotation.
