Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Single Jet Impinging on Dimpled Surface

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonghui Xie ◽  
Ping Li ◽  
Jibing Lan ◽  
Di Zhang

Based on combined particle image velocimetry (PIV) and numerical simulation, the flow and heat transfer characteristics of a single jet impinging on a dimpled surface for Dj/D = 0.318, 0.5, 1.045; δ/D = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3; Rej = 5000, 10,000, 23,000, were investigated for the first time. The distance between jet nozzle and plate was fixed and equal to H/D = 2. The results show that the flow structures of the single jet impingement with dimpled target surface can be summarized into three typical conceptual flow structures. Particularly, the third flow structure in the form of a large toroidal vortex bound up with the dimple is the result of the centrifugal force of the flow deflection at the stagnation region and spherical centrifugal force of the deep dimple surface. The heat transfer area increases when the dimple relative depth increases. For the cases of Dj/D = 0.318 and 0.5, the area increasing dominate the heat transfer process, and the average Nusselt number increases with the increasing of dimple relative depth. For the cases with Dj/D = 1.045, the local Nusselt number reduction dominate the heat transfer process, the average Nusselt number decreases with the increasing of dimple relative depth. The average Nusselt number of the Dj/D = 0.318 and 0.5 cases is larger than the baseline case, while those of the Dj/D = 1.045 cases are smaller than the baseline case. Furthermore, the correlative expressions of the local Nusselt number, stagnation points Nusselt number and average Nusselt number are obtained.

Author(s):  
Someshwar Ade ◽  
Sushil Rathore

Abstract The present work reports 3D computational study of buoyancy driven flow and heat transfer characteristics for a localized heater (analogous to superconductor) submerged in cryogenic liquid nitrogen in an enclosure. Seven different heater geometries are considered and the effect of heater geometry on flow and heat transfer characteristics are illustrated. The heater is generating heat at a constant rate (W/m3). Continuity, momentum and energy equations are solved using finite volume method. Liquid flow and heat transfer features are demonstrated with the help of velocity vector and temperature contours. Rayleigh number, average Nusselt number, maximum vertical velocity of fluid flow, average velocity of fluid flow are the parameters which are considered for comparing seven different geometries of heater. Additionally, an analysis of the entropy generation owing to transfer of heat and friction due to fluid flow are reported. Furthermore, the dependency of average Nusselt number, maximum velocity of fluid, entropy generation owing to transfer of heat and fluid friction as a function of heat generation rate is illustrated graphically. The results of this study indicate that heater geometry can considerably affect the transfer of heat, fluid flow features and entropy generation under same heat generation rate in the heater. Highest average Nusselt number on heater surface is obtained when heater geometry is circular; whereas lowest value of total entropy generation in the domain is obtained when heater geometry is equilateral triangle.


Author(s):  
Xinjun Wang ◽  
Rui Liu ◽  
Xiaowei Bai ◽  
Jinling Yao

A mathematical model used for studying jet impingement cooling characteristics is established, and the rationality of the calculation model and method is confirmed by the experimental data. The CFX software is used to numerically simulate the jet impingement cooling characteristics on a gas turbine blade. The effects of various parameters, such as the arrays of impinging nozzles, the jet Reynolds number, the jet-to-jet distance, the ratio of nozzle-to-surface spacing to jet diameter H/d, and the radius of curvature of the target surface, on the flow and heat transfer characteristics of a impingement cooling process are studied. The results indicate that the impingement jets can make complex vortex in the cooling channel, the flow boundary layer is extremely thin and highly turbulent. Underneath each impingement nozzle, there will appear a low temperature area and a peak of Nusselt number on the impingement target surface, the distribution of temperature and Nusselt number on the target surface are associated with arrangement of impingement nozzles. The average Nusselt number of the in-line arrangement nozzles is higher than that of the staggered arrangement ones. With the increasing of jet Reynolds number, the velocity impinging on the target surface and Nusselt number increase. However, heat transfer of impingement cooling on target surface is not sensitive to the jet nozzles distance; the velocity impinging on the target surface and Nusselt number decrease with the increasing of the H/d value. For the curved target surface cases, the average Nusselt number of the target surface and the effect of heat transfer decreased with the increasing of curvature radius R.


2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 467-483
Author(s):  
Jen-Chieh Cheng ◽  
You-Ming Chen

ABSTRACT This research performs a three-dimensional simulation to investigate the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics for hot-air jets impinging on the wing leading-edge surface. Both the periodic model and the whole model are proposed to examine the thermal anti-icing performance for hot air ejecting from a piccolo tube onto the impinging surface. The results show that, for the periodic model, the enhancement of the average Nusselt number can be up to 94.4%, and the enhancement of the average heat flux is up to 29.7% for 100 ≦ uj ≦ 350 m/s and 300 ≦ Tj ≦ 550 K when compared with the results of the basic case of uj = 200 m/s and Tj = 450 K. The maximum enhancement of the $\overline {Nu} $ is 62.3% as the spacing decreases from Sn = 8 to Sn = 4 and the optimum Numax and $\overline {Nu} $ occur at Si = 5 and Si = 6 for the single-array holes with 3 ≦ Si ≦ 7 and 4 ≦ Sn ≦ 8. In addition, the θh for maximum $\overline {{{Nu}}} $ is 10° and the maximum enhancement of the $\overline {{{Nu}}} $ is ∼15.7% for double-array holes and staggered-array holes as compared with single-array holes. In addition, the nonuniformity of Nusselt number and heat flux distributions are significantly improved. For the whole model, the maximum enhancement of the average Nusselt number is ∼7.5% and the optimum configuration is θh = 40°, for cases with La = 60, Dp = 8, $\dot{m}$ = 0.15 kg/s, Si = 6, 1 ≦ Nh ≦ 5, 10 ≦ Sn ≦ 30 and 10° ≦ θh ≦ 60°.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Zhanwei Liu ◽  
Xinyu Li ◽  
Tenglong Cong ◽  
Rui Zhang ◽  
Lingyun Zheng ◽  
...  

The prediction of flow and heat transfer characteristics of liquid sodium with CFD technology is of significant importance for the design and safety analysis of sodium-cooled fast reactor. The accuracies and uncertainties of the CFD models should be evaluated to improve the confidence of the numerical results. In this work, the uncertainties from the turbulent model, boundary conditions, and physical properties for the flow and heat transfer of liquid sodium were evaluated against the experimental data. The results of uncertainty quantization show that the maximum uncertainties of the Nusselt number and friction coefficient occurred in the transition zone from the inlet to the fully developed region in the circular tube, while they occurred near the reattachment point in the backward-facing step. Furthermore, in backward-facing step flow, the maximum uncertainty of temperature migrated from the heating wall to the geometric center of the channel, while the maximum uncertainty of velocity occurred near the vortex zone. The results of sensitivity analysis illustrate that the Nusselt number was negatively correlated with the thermal conductivity and turbulent Prandtl number, while the friction coefficient was positively correlated with the density and Von Karman constant. This work can be a reference to evaluate the accuracy of the standard k-ε model in predicting the flow and heat transfer characteristics of liquid sodium.


Author(s):  
Salaika Parvin ◽  
Nepal Chandra Roy ◽  
Litan Kumar Saha ◽  
Sadia Siddiqa

A numerical study is performed to investigate nanofluids' flow field and heat transfer characteristics between the domain bounded by a square and a wavy cylinder. The left and right walls of the cavity are at constant low temperature while its other adjacent walls are insulated. The convective phenomena take place due to the higher temperature of the inner corrugated surface. Super elliptic functions are used to transform the governing equations of the classical rectangular enclosure into a system of equations valid for concentric cylinders. The resulting equations are solved iteratively with the implicit finite difference method. Parametric results are presented in terms of streamlines, isotherms, local and average Nusselt numbers for a wide range of scaled parameters such as nanoparticles concentration, Rayleigh number, and aspect ratio. Several correlations have been deduced at the inner and outer surface of the cylinders for the average Nusselt number, which gives a good agreement when compared against the numerical results. The strength of the streamlines increases significantly due to an increase in the aspect ratio of the inner cylinder and the Rayleigh number. As the concentration of nanoparticles increases, the average Nusselt number at the internal and external cylinders becomes stronger. In addition, the average Nusselt number for the entire Rayleigh number range gets enhanced when plotted against the volume fraction of the nanofluid.


Author(s):  
Fatih Selimefendigil ◽  
Hakan F. Öztop

Numerical study of jet impingement cooling of a corrugated surface with water–SiO2 nanofluid of different nanoparticle shapes was performed. The bottom wall is corrugated and kept at constant surface temperature, while the jet emerges from a rectangular slot with cold uniform temperature. The finite volume method is utilized to solve the governing equations. The effects of Reynolds number (between 100 and 500), corrugation amplitude (between 0 and 0.3), corrugation frequency (between 0 and 20), nanoparticle volume fraction (between 0 and 0.04), and nanoparticle shapes (spherical, blade, brick, and cylindrical) on the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics were studied. Stagnation point and average Nusselt number enhance with Reynolds number and solid particle volume fraction for both flat and corrugated surface configurations. An optimal value for the corrugation amplitude and frequency was found to maximize the average heat transfer at the highest value of Reynolds number. Among various nanoparticle shapes, cylindrical ones perform the best heat transfer characteristics in terms of stagnation and average Nusselt number values. At the highest solid volume concentration of the nanoparticles, heat transfer values are higher for a corrugated surface when compared to a flat surface case.


Author(s):  
Tarek M. Abdel-Salam

This study presents results for flow and heat transfer characteristics of two-dimensional rectangular impinging jets and three-dimensional circular impinging jets. Flow geometries under consideration are single and multiple impinging jets issued from a plane wall. Both confined and unconfined configurations are simulated. Effects of Reynolds number and the distance between the jets are investigated. Results are obtained with a finite volume computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. Structured grids are used in all cases of the present study. Turbulence is treated with a two equation k-ε model. Different jet velocities have been examined corresponding to Reynolds numbers of 5,000 to 20,000. Results of the three-dimensional cases show that Reynolds number has no effect on the velocity distribution of the center jet. Results of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional cases show that Reynolds number highly affects the heat transfer and values of the Nusselt number. The maximum Nusselt number was always found at the stagnation point of the center jet.


Author(s):  
R. Deeb ◽  
◽  
A.V. Kolotvin ◽  

A numerical study using the software package ANSYS has been conducted to investigate fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics for in-line drop-shaped and circular tubes bundles in crossflow. Reynolds number based on equivalent diameter varied in range of 3x103 ≤ Re ≤ 18.7x103. The longitudinal spacing SL= 37, 46.25 mm, while the transversal spacing ST =37 mm. A mathematical and numerical model has been developed for numerical evaluation of heat transfer and hydrodynamic of a studied bundles. The distribution of the pressure coefficient over a half surface of the circular and drop-shaped tubes of the third row was obtained. Correlations of the average Nusselt number and the friction coefficient for the studied bundles in terms of Re were presented. Results showed that pressure coefficient and heat transfer of drop-shaped tubes depend on position of tubes in tubes bundle. The thermal–hydraulic performance of the drop-shaped tubes bundle is about 1,45~ 2,01 и 1,45~ 2,01 times greater than the circular one for SL= 37, 46.25 mm, respectively.


Author(s):  
Bo Su ◽  
Wei-jiang Xu ◽  
Zhi-ping Li ◽  
Tian-liang Zhou ◽  
Fei Lu

Abstract In this paper, the heat transfer performance of single jet impinging conical surface is investigated based on transient liquid crystal experiments. Because of different target surface structures, impingement heat transfer will have different heat transfer characteristics. In order to better understand the heat transfer mechanism of the impinging conical target surface, this paper studies the three jet Reynolds number (Re) ranged from 25000 to 70000, three the dimensionless nozzle-to-surface distance (H/D) from 0.75 to 6 on heat transfer characteristics. The liquid crystal thermal imaging technology is used in the experiment to obtain the heat transfer efficiency of jet heat transfer on the conical target surface. The research in this paper shows that the larger the jet Reynolds number, the larger the Nusselt number at the stagnation point. It is worth noting that the maximum Nusselt number is not necessarily obtained at the stagnation point. When Re = 70000 and H/D = 0.75, the maximum value of the Nusselt number is 1.24 times the stagnation point. The larger the Reynolds number, the smaller the impingement distance, and the more obvious the secondary maxima. At the same impingement distance, when the Reynolds number is larger, the position of the secondary maxima appears earlier. When Re = 25000, H/D = 3.5, 6 and Re = 45000, H/D = 6, the local Nusselt number monotonously decreases from the maximum value at the stagnation point along the flow, and it appears secondary maxima in other experimental conditions. Within the scope of this study, the overall heat transfer performance is better when the dimensionless distance between the jet hole and the target surface is 3.5.


2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
H Laidoudi ◽  
M Bouzit

This paper performs the effects of thermal buoyancy and the triangular arrangement of circular cylinders on fluid flow and heat transfer within a horizontal channel, the governing equations involving continuity; momentum and energy are solved in two-dimensional, laminar and steady flow regime. The average Nusselt number and drag coefficient are computed for the range of these conditions: Ri = 0 to 2 at fixed value of Pr = 1, Reynolds number Re = 30 and geometrical configurations (blockage ratio of β = 0.1). In order to observe the flow structure and temperature field under the gradual effect of thermal buoyancy, the streamlines and isotherm contours are illustrated. It is found that, a gradual increase in the value of buoyancy strength creates an asymmetrical flow around the cylinders. Interesting variations of drag coefficient and average Nusselt number are plotted with respect to Richardson number for each cylinder. Bangladesh J. Sci. Ind. Res.54(1), 83-88, 2019


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