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Inflow Nozzle Conditions for Improving Vortex Tube Performance (보텍스튜브 성능향상을 위한 유입노즐 조건에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Hoon-Ki;Yoo, Geun-Jong;Lim, Yun-Seung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.68-76
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    • 2018
  • A vortex tube is a simple energy separating device that splits a compressed air stream into a cold and hot stream without any external energy supply or chemical reactions. The efforts of many researchers and designers have been focused on improvement of vortex tube efficiency by changing the parameters affecting vortex tube operation. The effective parameters are nozzle specifications and inflow pressure conditions. Effects of different nozzle cross-sectional area and number of nozzles are evaluated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. In this study, CFD analysis of 3-D steady state and turbulent flow through a vortex tube was performed. We investigated the cold air mass flow rate, the cold air temperature, and the cold air heat transfer rate behavior of a vortex tube by utilizing seven straight nozzles and four inflow pressure conditions.

A MODEL FOR THE PENETRATION RATE OF A BOUSSINESQ STARTING FORCED PLUME

  • LAW ADRIAN WING-KEUNG;AI JIAO JIAN;YU S.C.M
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2005.09b
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    • pp.951-951
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    • 2005
  • The characteristics of Boussinesq starting forced plumes were investigated in this study. Two distinct periods in the transient plume penetration were identified, namely the Period of Flow Development (PFD) and Period of Developed Flow (PDF). PFD refers to the time period whereby the penetration rate is governed by the complex vortex dynamics initiated by the exit conditions that can include vortex coalescence, vortex leapfrogging, pinching off of the head vortex from the trailing stem and the eventual reconnection. The pinch-off and reconnection leads to an overshoot of the plume front which is a common observation reported in previous studies. The penetration rate in PDF is more predictable and depends on the continuous feeding of buoyancy and momentum into the head vortex by the trailing buoyant-jet stem. Similarity solutions are developed for PDF to describe the temporal variation of the penetration rate, by incorporating the behavior of an isolated buoyant vortex ring and recent laboratory results on the trailing buoyant jet. In particular, the variations of velocity ratios between the head vortex and trailing buoyant jet are analytically computed. To verify the similarity solutions, experiments were conducted on vertical starting forced plumes using planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF).

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Oscillatory Josephson-Vortex Resistance in Stacks of $Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8+x}$ Intrinsic Josephson Junctions

  • Choi Jae-Hyun;Bae Myung-Ho;Lee Hu-Jong;Kim Sang-Jae
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.17-21
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    • 2005
  • We report the oscillation of the Josephson vortex-flow resistance in the rectangular stacks of $Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8+x}$(Bi-2212) intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs). Apiece of Bi-2212 single crystal containing a few tens of IJJs was sandwiched between two gold electrodes and fabricated into a rectangular shape with the typical lateral size of about $1.5{\times}10\;{\mu}m^2$, using e-beam lithography and focused ion-beam etching techniques. In a tesla-range magnetic field applied in parallel with the junction planes, the oscillation of the Josephson vortex flow resistance was observed at temperatures near 60 K. The oscillation results from the interplay between the triangular Josephson vortex lattice and the potential barrier at the boundary of a single crystal. The oscillatory magnetoresistance for different bias currents, external magnetic fields, and the tilt-angles provides useful information on the dynamics of the coupled Josephson-vortex lattice system.

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