Investigation of Vortex Cooling for Weapon Applications
Abstract
An earlier In-House Laboratory Independent Research investigation of the feasibility of using vortex cooling for gun barrels was extended by the Research Directorate of the Weapons Laboratory at Rock Island. Earlier experimental data for the convection heat transfer coefficient of a vortex tube in cooling steel rods arranged coaxially with and external to the vortex tube are verified for a full-scale device. The potential of this concept for transferring surface heat fluxes of the magnitude encountered in a typical weapon from a cylindrical surface is demonstrated.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1972
- Accession Number
- AD0746232
Entities
People
- Ronald B. Nelson