Introduction to the Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube

These pages are taken directly from the introduction to my thesis on the Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube. They mainly consist of large (15K) graphics files that may take some time to download. In addition, reference may be made to material that is not publically available.

While you are welcome to take copies or printouts of this material for your personal use, please note that all this material is copyright (c) by Tim Cockerill, and may not be otherwise reproduced without my express written permission. In particular this material may not be distributed in any form including CD-ROM collections of web pages, in book or other printed form or on any mirror sites other than (i) world wide web proxy caches, (ii) freely accessible world wide web indexes such as Lycos or Alta Vista.


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Tim Cockerill
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