SIMILARITY OF THE ENERGY-SEPARATION
PROCESS IN VORTEX RANQUE TUBES

Sh. A. Piralishvili and A. A. Fuzeeva

UDC 621.59.01

Criteria for estimating the effect of energy separation 
in a vortex tube have been developed on the basis of the similarity 
theory and the theory of dimension. The most reliable available experimental 
data on the process considered have been generalized in the form of 
criteria equation relating the main characteristics of the energy-separation 
process in tubes with determined parameters.

P. A. Solov'ev Rybinsk Aircraft Technological Academy, 
53 Pushkin Str., Rybinsk, Yaroslavskaya Obl., 152934, Russia; email: 
ana_fuz@mail.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 
79, No. 1, pp. 29-34, January-February, 2006. Original article 
submitted February 17, 2004; revision submitted November 2, 2004.