Influence of the channel length of a vortex tube on the air temperature separation

Abstract

Abstract A model of a counterflow vortex tube has been prepared to study the dependence of the influence of the tube length parameter on the cold and hot air production. Computational experiments were made using the OpenFOAM package. The prepared grid allowed us to carry out simulations for vortex tubes with lengths of the main channel varying from 20 to 70 cm. All calculations were performed with boundary conditions with constant inlet pressure and atmospheric pressure at the outlet. Results were obtained on temperatures and mass flow rates of the air in the cold and hot outlets of the vortex tube, depending on the length of the device. It is shown that an increase of the length of the vortex tube channel increases the production of cold air. An increase in the temperature of the produced hot air on vortex tube length increase was also noted.