Study of the influence of an external flow rate perturbation on the vortex structure and heat transfer in impinging jets
Abstract The study of physical processes dominating in submerged turbulent jets impinging on a wall is an important task because this configuration is utilized in various applications. The efficiency of heat transfer in this configuration has been a subject of a long-term study. Active flow control technique and the optimization of the control signal can be applied to exploit inherent flow properties to further improve the heat transfer from the wall in impingent jets. In this paper, IR-thermography and time-resolved PIV measurements are used for the diagnostics of wall temperature fields and large-scale vortex dynamics under external flow rate forcing control. It is found that the low-frequency forcing (for the Strouhal number St = 0.6) increases integral temperature on the wall as compared to the unforced case and the high-frequency forcing (St = 0.9).