Heat transfer enhancement from micro pin fins subjected to an impinging jet

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 413-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidy Ndao ◽  
Hee Joon Lee ◽  
Yoav Peles ◽  
Michael K. Jensen
1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 972-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.-C. Chou ◽  
J. R. Lukes ◽  
C.-L. Tien

The current literature contains many studies of microchannel and micro-pin-fin heat exchangers, but none of them consider the size effect on the thermal conductivity of channel and fin walls. The present study analyzes the effect of size (i.e., the microscale effect) on the microfin performance, particularly in the cryogenic regime where the microscale effect is often appreciable. The size effect reduces the thermal conductivity of microchannel and microfin walls and thus reduces the heat transfer rate. For this reason, heat transfer enhancement by microfins becomes even more important than for macroscale fins. The need for better understanding of heat transfer enhancement by microfins motivates the current study, which resolves three basic issues. First, it is found that the heat, flow choking can occur even in the case of simple plate fins or pin fins in the microscale regime, although choking is usually caused by the accommodation of a cluster of fins at the fin tip. Second, this paper shows that the use of micro-plate-fin arrays yields a higher heat transfer enhancement ratio than the use of the micro-pin-fin arrays due to the stronger reduction of thermal conductivity in micro-pin-fins. The third issue is how the size effect influences the fin thickness optimization. For convenience in design applications, an equation for the optimum fin thickness is established which generalizes the case without the size effect as first reported by Tuckerman and Pease.


Author(s):  
T. I.-P. Shih ◽  
C.-S. Lee ◽  
K. M. Bryden

Almost all measurements of the heat-transfer coefficient (HTC) or Nusselt number (Nu) in gas-turbine cooling passages with heat-transfer enhancement features such as pin fins and ribs have been made under conditions, where the wall-to-bulk temperature, Tw/Tb, is near unity. Since Tw/Tb in gas-turbine cooling passages can be as high as 2.2 and vary appreciably along the passage, this study examines if it is necessary to match the rate of change in Tw/Tb when measuring Nu, whether Nu measured at Tw/Tb near unity needs to be scaled before used in design and analysis of turbine cooling, and could that scaling for ducts with heat-transfer enhancement features be obtained from scaling factors for smooth ducts because those scaling factors exist in the literature. In this study, a review of the data in the literature shows that it is unnecessary to match the rate of change in Tw/Tb for smooth ducts at least for the rates that occur in gas turbines. For ducts with heat-transfer enhancement features, it is still an open question. This study also shows Nu measured at Tw/Tb near unity needs to be scale to the correct Tw/Tb before it can be used for engine conditions. By using steady RANS analysis of the flow and heat transfer in a cooling channel with a staggered array of pin fins, the usefulness of the scaling factor, (Tw/Tb)r, from the literature for smooth ducts was examined. Nuengine, computed under engine conditions, was compared with those computed under laboratory conditions, Nulab, and scaled by (Tw/Tb)r; i.e., Nulab,scaled = Nulab (Tw/Tb)r. Results obtained show the error in Nulab,scaled relative to Nuengine can be as high as 36.6% if r = −0.7 and Tw/Tb = 1.573 in the “fully” developed region. Thus, (Tw/Tb)r based on smooth duct should not be used as a scaling factor for Nu in cooling passages with heat-transfer enhancement features. To address this inadequacy, a method is proposed for generating scaling factors, and a scaling factor was developed to scale the heat transfer from laboratory to engine conditions for a channel with pin fins.


2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 445-459
Author(s):  
Mizuki Kito ◽  
Toshihiko Shakouchi ◽  
Tatsuji Sakamoto ◽  
Koichi Tsujimoto ◽  
Toshitake Ando

Author(s):  
Pavin Ganmol ◽  
Minking K. Chyu ◽  
Mary Anne Alvin

The design geometry and transport phenomena associated with the tip internal cooling can be very complex and has been little studied. Internal cooling channel near a tip region typically inherits a sharp, 180-degree, turn and little or no enhancement installation exists. To explore potential design for enhancement cooling, a series of experiments are performed to investigate the heat transfer enhancement by placing different pin-fins configurations in the tip-turn region of a two-pass channel with a 180-degree sharp turn. Transient liquid crystal technique is applied to acquire detailed local heat transfer data both on the channel surface and pin elements, for Reynolds number between 13,000 and 28,000. Present results suggest that the pin-fins can enhance heat transfer up to 2.3 fold in the tip-turn region and up to 1.3 fold for the entire channel. The presence of the pin-fins also changes the flow pattern in the post turn region which is resulting in more evenly distributed heat transfer downstream of the turn.


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 295-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambarish Maji ◽  
Dipankar Bhanja ◽  
Promod Kumar Patowari ◽  
Balaram Kundu

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