a brass vortex tube (vt) with interchangeable parts is used to determine the optimum cold end orifice diameter, main tube length and diameter. experiments were carried out to study the effects of operating pressure as well. it is shown that there is an optimum value for cold end orifice diameter, which is equal to 4mm and there is an optimum value for cold and hot exit temperature difference at...

introduction increasing the area of absorber plate between the flowed air through the duct can be accomplished by corrugating the absorber plate or by using the artificial roughness underside of the absorber plate as the commercial methods for enhancing the thermohydraulic performance of the flat plate solar air heaters. evaluation of this requires the construction of separated solar air heater...

This research presents an multi-stage multi-orifice flow fractionation (MS-MOFF) device designed for separating breast cancer cell from blood. The structure and dimensions of the MS-MOFF were determined by the hydrodynamic principles to have consistent Reynolds numbers (Re) at each multi-orifice segment. From this device, we achieved improved separation efficiency by collecting and re-separatin...

Accurate fluid flow metering is essential for modern process control, and ultrasonic flow meters are well established in this area. However, the specific acoustic impedance mismatch for most piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers is different when operating liquids and gases, hence there are problems measuring two-phase flows when using a single type of piezoelectric transducer in a flow meter. T...

In this paper, we have designed and employed a suspended-wall silo to remove Janssen effect in order explore directly the local pressure dependence of Granular Orifice Flow (GOF) systematically. We find that as is removed, flow rate Q changes linearly with external pressure. The slope {\alpha} linear change decays exponentially ratio size orifice {\Phi}/D, which suggests existence characteristi...

BACKGROUND The regurgitant volume in aortic regurgitation is determined by the diastolic filling period, the pressure gradient between the left ventricle and aorta, and the hemodynamic size of the regurgitant orifice area. METHODS AND RESULTS To test the hypothesis that the aortic regurgitant orifice area is related to aortic pressure and aortic root size, 16 fresh calf heart and aorta specim...

This paper addresses the design of a novel electromagnetic flow meter for use in multiphase flows. The relationship between the magnetic field distribution, the induced electrical potential and the velocity distribution of the conducting continuous phase was studied using COMSOL Multiphysics software (formally known as FEMLAB). The electromagnetic flow meter was modelled to its physical specifi...

This article investigates through experiments the flow characteristics of plane jets from sharp-edged orifice-plate, beveled-edge and radially contoured nozzle. The first two configurations exhibit saddle-backed velocity profiles while the third shows a top-hat. A vena contracta is found for the jet emanating from orifice at x/h ≈ 3 while the contoured case displays a potential core extending t...

T. J. Trella, U.S. Department of Transportation, Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 and A theoretical model was developed of the nonlinear dynamic response of a reciprocating air compressor discharge valve system considering unsteady flow. It constitutes an extension of previous modeling procedures where the flow was considered in a quasi steady manner. The most simpl...