An experimental study on the design parameters of a counterflow vortex tube

The Use of the Expansion of Gases in a Centrifugal Field as Cooling Process

R. Hilsch · Review of Scientific Instruments · 1947 · 506 citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerodynamics +9

Acoustic streaming in swirling flow and the Ranque—Hilsch (vortex-tube) effect

M. Kurosaka · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1982 · 226 citations

Natural Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Physics +11

An investigation of energy separation in a vortex tube

Karl Stephan, Shuo Lin, M. Durst et al. · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 1983 · 191 citations

Natural Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Physics +13

Secondary flow in a vortex tube

B. Ahlborn, Stuart Groves · Fluid Dynamics Research · 1997 · 171 citations

Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Aerodynamics +13

Numerical investigations of the compressible flow and the energy separation in the Ranque–Hilsch vortex tube

W. Fröhlingsdorf, H. Unger · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 1999 · 156 citations

Natural Sciences, Aerospace Engineering, Physics +16