Free Jet Impingement Heat Transfer of a High Prandtl Number Fluid Under Conditions of Highly Varying Properties

1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Leland ◽  
M. R. Pais

An experimental investigation was performed to determine the heat transfer rates for an impinging free-surface axisymmetric jet of lubricating oil for a wide range of Prandtl numbers (48 to 445) and for conditions of highly varying properties (viscosity ratios up to 14) in the flowing film. Heat transfer coefficients were obtained for jet Reynolds numbers from 109 to 8592, nozzle orifice diameters of 0.51, 0.84 and 1.70 mm and a heated surface diameter of 12.95 mm. The effect of nozzle to surface spacing (1 to 8.5 mm), was also investigated. Viscous dissipation was found to have an effect at low heat fluxes. Distinct heat transfer regimes were identified for initially laminar and turbulent jets. The data show that existing constant property correlations underestimate the heat transfer coefficient by more than 100 percent as the wall to fluid temperature difference increases. Over 700 data points were used to generate Nusselt number correlations which satisfactorily account for the highly varying properties with a mean absolute error of less than ten percent.

Author(s):  
Nick Baines ◽  
Karl D. Wygant ◽  
Antonis Dris

Heat transfers in an automotive turbocharger comprise significant energy flows, but are rarely measured or accounted for in any turbocharger performance assessment. Existing measurements suggest that the difference in turbine efficiency calculated in the conventional way, by means of the fluid temperature change, under adiabatic conditions differs considerably from the usual diabatic test conditions, particularly at low turbine pressure ratio. In the work described in this paper, three commercial turbochargers were extensively instrumented with thermocouples on all accessible external and internal surfaces in order to make comprehensive temperature surveys. The turbochargers were run at ranges of turbine inlet temperature and external ventilation. Adiabatic tests were also carried out to serve as a reference condition. Based on the temperature measurements, the internal heat fluxes from the turbine gas to the turbocharger structure, and from there to the lubricating oil and the compressor, and the external heat fluxes to the environment, were calculated. A one-dimensional heat transfer network model of the turbocharger was demonstrated to be able to simulate the heat fluxes to good accuracy, and that the heat transfer coefficients required were ultimately found to be mostly independent of the turbochargers tested.


Author(s):  
Nick Baines ◽  
Karl D. Wygant ◽  
Antonis Dris

Heat transfers in an automotive turbocharger comprise significant energy flows, but are rarely measured or accounted for in any turbocharger performance assessment. Existing measurements suggest that the difference in turbine efficiency calculated in the conventional way, by means of the fluid temperature change, under adiabatic conditions differs considerably from the usual diabatic test conditions, particularly at low turbine pressure ratio. In the work described in this paper, three commercial turbochargers were extensively instrumented with thermocouples on all accessible external and internal surfaces in order to make comprehensive temperature surveys. The turbochargers were run at ranges of turbine inlet temperature and external ventilation. Adiabatic tests were also carried out to serve as a reference condition. Based on the temperature measurements, the internal heat fluxes from the turbine gas to the turbocharger structure and from there to the lubricating oil and the compressor, and the external heat fluxes to the environment were calculated. A one-dimensional heat transfer network model of the turbocharger was demonstrated to be able to simulate the heat fluxes to good accuracy, and the heat transfer coefficients required were ultimately found to be mostly independent of the turbochargers tested.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2119 (1) ◽  
pp. 012172
Author(s):  
T G Gigola ◽  
V V Cheverda

Abstract The process of the liquid spray impact on the heated surface is studied experimentally using the IR-transparent sapphire plate method. The spatiotemporal distribution of the temperature field on the sapphire substrate surface during impacting spray is received. The obtained experimental data are an important step in a study of the local characteristics of heat transfer in the areas of the contact lines during liquid spray impact on the heated surface. Further, the local heat fluxes and heat transfer coefficients will be determined by solving the problem of thermal conductivity in the sapphire substrate.


2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ki Wook Jung ◽  
Eunho Cho ◽  
Hyoungsoon Lee ◽  
Chirag Kharangate ◽  
Feng Zhou ◽  
...  

Abstract High performance and economically viable cooling solutions must be developed to reduce weight and volume, allowing for a wide-spread utilization of hybrid electric vehicles. The traditional embedded microchannel cooling heat sinks suffer from high pressure drop due to small channel dimensions and long flow paths in two-dimensional (2D) plane. Utilizing direct “embedded cooling” strategy in combination with top access three-dimensional (3D) manifold strategy reduces the pressure drop by nearly an order of magnitude. In addition, it provides more temperature uniformity across large area chips and it is less prone to flow instability in two-phase boiling heat transfer. This study presents the experimental results for single-phase thermofluidic performance of an embedded silicon microchannel cold plate (CP) bonded to a 3D manifold for heat fluxes up to 300 W/cm2 using single-phase R-245fa. The heat exchanger consists of a 5 × 5 mm2 heated area with 25 parallel 75 × 150 μm2 microchannels, where the fluid is distributed by a 3D-manifold with four microconduits of 700 × 250 μm2. Heat is applied to the silicon heat sink using electrical Joule-heating in a metal serpentine bridge and the heated surface temperature is monitored in real-time by infrared (IR) camera and electrical resistance thermometry. The maximum and average temperatures of the chip, pressure drop, thermal resistance, and average heat transfer coefficient (HTC) are reported for flow rates of 0.1, 0.2. 0.3, and 0.37 L/min and heat fluxes from 25 to 300 W/cm2. The proposed embedded microchannels-3D manifold cooler, or EMMC, device is capable of removing 300 W/cm2 at maximum temperature 80 °C with pressure drop of less than 30 kPa, where the flow rate, inlet temperature, and pressures are 0.37 L/min, 25 °C and 350 kPa, respectively. The experimental uncertainties of the test results are estimated, and the uncertainties are the highest for heat fluxes < 50 W/cm2 due to difficulty in precisely measuring the fluid temperature at the inlet and outlet of the microcooler.


1968 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Haberstroh ◽  
L. V. Baldwin

The temperature profiles and heat-transfer coefficients are predicted for fully developed turbulent pipe flow with constant wall heat flux for a wide range of Prandtl and Reynolds numbers. The basis for integrating the energy equation comes from a continuously differentiable velocity profile which fits the physical boundary conditions and is a rigorous (though not necessarily unique) solution of the Reynolds equations. This velocity profile is the semiempirical relation proposed by S. I. Pai, reference [12]. The assumptions are those of steady, incompressible, constant-property, fully developed, turbulent flow of Newtonian fluids in smooth, circular pipes with constant heat flux at the wall. The ratio of the turbulent thermal diffusivity to the turbulent momentum diffusivity is taken to be unity. The thermal quantities are obtained by numerical integration of the energy equation, and they are presented as curves and tables. A compact formula for the Nusselt number is given for a wide range of Reynolds and Prandtl numbers. The results degenerate identically to the case of laminar flow. The heat-transfer calculation requires neither adjustable factors nor data-fitting beyond the empirical constants in the momentum equation; thus this analysis constitutes a heat-transfer prediction to be tested against heat-transfer data.


1970 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Ackerman

Investigations of heat transfer to supercritical pressure fluids have been going on for some time, and correlations have been developed for both free and forced-convection conditions. In these investigations, unpredictable heat transfer performance has sometimes been observed when the pseudocritical temperature of the fluid is between the temperature of the bulk fluid and that of the heated surface. The unusual performance has been attributed to many causes, but one for which more evidence is being collected is that of a pseudofilm-boiling process similar to film boiling which occurs at subcritical pressures. This paper, which is an extension of work reported earlier on forced-convection heat transfer to supercritical pressure water, presents experimental evidence which suggests that a pseudofilm-boiling phenomenon can occur in smooth-bore tubes. During the period from 1963–1966, tubes with ID’s from 0.37 to 0.96 in. were tested at pressures from 3300–6000 psia and at heat fluxes and mass velocities in the range of interest in steam-generator design. The effects of heat flux, mass velocity, tube diameter, pressure, and bulk fluid temperature on both the occurrence and characteristics of pseudofilm boiling are discussed. Results of a second series of tests conducted in 1967, which show that ribbed tubes suppress pseudofilm boiling at supercritical pressure much like they do film boiling at subcritical pressures, are also discussed.


2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (8) ◽  
pp. 897-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Bazargan ◽  
Daniel Fraser ◽  
Vijay Chatoorgan

Heat transfer to supercritical water and buoyancy∕natural convection effects are becoming increasingly important areas of research due to current trends in nuclear reactor design and supercritical water oxidation facilities. A pilot-scale supercritical water oxidation loop was constructed at the University of British Columbia. For this work, the facility was used to study the relative importance of buoyancy effects on supercritical water flowing in a horizontal pipe. Local heat transfer coefficients at the top and bottom surfaces of the horizontal test section were systematically measured over a wide range of conditions at supercritical pressures between 23 to 27 MPa, uniform heat fluxes were up to 310kW∕m2, and the mass flux ranged from 330 to 1230kg∕m2s. It was found that neglecting buoyancy effects could cause large discrepancies between the predictions of available empirical correlations and the experimental data. The data was used to assess available criteria for the buoyancy-free region during horizontal supercritical fluid flows. The criterion of Petukhov and Polyakov, which, for the range of parameters in this study, was found to be accurate in predicting the onset of buoyancy effects. The experimental investigation is confined to supercritical flows with heat addition only. Hence, no heat loss conditions at supercritical temperatures were investigated.


1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 605-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Robertson ◽  
P. C. Lovegrove

The results of laboratory experiments with Freon 11 (R11) flowing in an electrically heated, serrated-fin test section to measure local boiling coefficients over a wide range of vapor quality, with mass fluxes up to 150 kg/m2 s, heat fluxes to 4 kW/m2, and pressure from 3–7 bar, are reported. These low mass and heat fluxes reflect the industrial process application of these heat exchangers where exceedingly small temperature differences may exist between streams. Results are compared with the very similar boiling characteristics previously reported elsewhere for the same test section, with liquid nitrogen as a test fluid under comparable flow conditions. A simple method using the Reynolds number of the total flow regarded as a liquid has been used to correlate boiling heat transfer coefficients with quality for both fluids. The use of a liquid-film flow model to produce a nondimensional correlation connecting the Nusselt, Reynolds, and Prandtl numbers of the film is discussed.


Author(s):  
Hakim Maloufi ◽  
Hanqing Xie ◽  
Andrew Zopf ◽  
William Anderson ◽  
Christian Langevin ◽  
...  

Currently, there is a number of Generation-IV SuperCritical Water-cooled nuclear-Reactor (SCWR) concepts under development worldwide. These high temperature and pressure reactors will have significantly higher operating parameters compared to those of current water-cooled nuclear-power reactors (i.e., “steam” pressures of about 25 MPa and “steam” outlet temperatures up to 625 °C). Additionally, SCWRs will have a simplified flow circuit in which steam generators, steam dryers, steam separators, etc. will be eliminated, as the steam will be flowing directly to a steam turbine. In support of developing SCWRs studies are being conducted on heat transfer at SuperCritical Pressures (SCPs). Currently, there are very few experimental datasets for heat transfer at SCPs in power-reactor fuel bundles to a coolant (water) available in open literature. Therefore, for preliminary calculations, heat-transfer correlations developed with bare-tube data can be used as a conservative approach. Selected empirical heat-transfer correlations, based on experimentally obtained datasets, have been put forward to calculate Heat Transfer Coefficients (HTCs) in forced convective in various fluids, including water at SCPs. The Mokry et al. correlation (2011) has shown a good fit for experimental data at supercritical conditions within a wide range of operating conditions in Normal and Improved Heat-Transfer (NHT and IHT) regimes. However, it is known that a Deteriorated Heat-Transfer (DHT) regime appears in bare tubes earlier than that in bundle flow geometries. Therefore, it is important to know if bare-tube heat-transfer correlations for SCW can predict HTCs at heat fluxes beyond those defined as starting of DHT regime in bare tubes. The Mokry et al. (2011) correlation fits the best SCW experimental data for HTCs and inner wall temperature for bare tubes at SCPs within the NHT and IHT regimes. However, this correlation might have problems with convergence of iterations at heat fluxes above 1000 kW/m2.


Author(s):  
Gregory J. Michna ◽  
Eric A. Browne ◽  
Yoav Peles ◽  
Michael K. Jensen

Electronics cooling is becoming increasingly difficult due to increasing power consumption and decreasing size of processor chips. Heat fluxes in processors and power electronics are quickly approaching levels that cannot be easily addressed by forced air convection over finned heat sinks. Jet impingement cooling offers high heat transfer coefficients and has been used effectively in conventional-scale applications such as turbine blade cooling and the quenching of metals. However, literature in the area of microjet arrays is scarce and has not studied arrays of large area ratios. Hence, the objective of this study is to experimentally assess the heat transfer performance of arrays of microjets. The microjet arrays were fabricated using MEMS processes in a clean room environment. The heat transfer performance of several arrays using deionized water as the working fluid was investigated. Inline and staggered array arrangements were investigated, and the area ratio (total area of the jets divided by the surface area) was varied between 0.036 and 0.35. Reynolds numbers defined by the jet diameter were in the range of 50 to 3,500. Heat fluxes greater than 1,000 W/cm2 were obtained at fluid inlet-to-surface temperature differences of less than 30 °C. Heat transfer performance improved as the area ratio was increased.


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