scholarly journals Effects of Free Stream Turbulence on the Instantaneous Heat Transfer in a Wall Jet Flow

Author(s):  
Savash Yavuzkurt

This is a preliminary study in order to understand how free stream turbulence increases the heat transfer. Effects of free stream turbulence on the instantaneous heat transfer were investigated in a wall jet flow. Heat transfer traces obtained by a hot film probe flush-mounted with the surface showed an intermittent structure with definite peaks at certain time intervals. Number of peaks per unit time increased with increasing turbulence intensity. A wall jet test rig was designed and built. The initial thickness and the velocity of the wall jet were 10 cm and 24.4 m/s respectively. The hot film probe which was flush with the surfaces was positioned at 10 cm intervals on the surface in the flow direction. The profiles of mean velocity and axial component of the Reynolds stress were measured with a horizontal hot wire probe. Space correlation coefficients for u′ and q′ were obtained in the vertical direction to the wall. This paper concentrates on the effects of turbulence level on the instantaneous heat transfer at the wall. It is speculated that intermittent structure of the heat transfer traces are related to burst phenomena and increase in heat transfer is due to increased ejections (bursts) at the wall with increasing turbulence levels.

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Yavuzkurt

This is a preliminary study in order to understand how free-stream turbulence increases heat transfer. Effects of free-stream turbulence on instantaneous heat transfer were investigated in a wall jet flow. Heat transfer traces obtained by a hot-film probe flush-mounted with the surface showed an intermittent structure with definite peaks at certain time intervals. The number of peaks per unit time increased with increasing turbulence intensity. A wall jet test rig was designed and built. The initial thickness and the velocity of the wall jet were 10 cm and 24.4 m/s, respectively. The hot-film probe, which was flush with the surfaces, was positioned at 10 cm intervals on the surface in the flow direction. The profiles of mean velocity and axial component of the Reynolds stress were measured with a horizontal hot-wire probe. Space correlation coefficients for u′ and q′ were obtained in the vertical direction to the wall. This paper concentrates on the effects of turbulence level on instantaneous heat transfer at the wall. It is speculated that the intermittent structures of the heat transfer traces are related to burst phenomena and increase in heat transfer is due to increased ejections (bursts) at the wall with increasing turbulence levels.


Author(s):  
Johnny Issa ◽  
Alfonso Ortega

The effect of the exit wall jet flow excitation on the flow and thermal behaviors of the turbulent wall jet is experimentally investigated. Various forcing amplitudes and frequencies are used in the presence and absence of a free stream flow. Forcing the flow showed to have a major impact on the fluid mechanics of the turbulent wall jet which was clearly shown in the velocity fields and the associated time-averaged quantities such as the wall jet spread and the maximum velocity decay. The normal direction at which the local maximum velocity occurs, also known as the wall jet spreading, is shown to move further away from the wall and is increased by more than 20% under some forcing conditions. The local maximum velocity decay with the downstream direction is reduced by more than 2.5% at further downstream locations. At a given location, the increase in the wall jet spreading together with the reduction in the mean velocity results in a decrease in the wall skin friction calculated using the slope of the mean velocity in the viscous sublayer, a behavior consistent with the literature. Due to its importance in enhancing heat transfer phenomena, the effect of the forcing on the streamwise velocity fluctuations is also investigated under the various forcing conditions. The profiles of the fluctuating component of the velocity, u’, are measured at various downstream locations since they are essential in understanding the growth of the disturbances. Forcing the wall jet increased u’ in the inner and outer regions and revealed the two peaks corresponding to the inner and outer shear layers respectively. This phenomenon is attributed to the added disturbance at the jet exit in addition to the disturbance growth with the downstream direction. The introduction of wall jet flow forcing at various amplitudes and frequencies showed a significant effect on the thermal behavior of the wall jet and was more pronounced in the absence of a free stream flow, a fact related to the evolution of the mixing layer with the downstream direction. In the absence of a free stream flow, Nusselt number decreases with increasing forcing amplitude and frequency in the region close to the jet exit. The decay of Nusselt number in the downstream direction showed an inflection point at further downstream locations which leads to a larger Nusselt number value than the one observed in the unforced case. This behavior is related to the enhanced mixing between the wall jet flow and the free stream due to forcing, which results in a reduction in the wall skin friction and consequently a decrease in the heat transfer rate from the wall.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick A. Siba ◽  
M. Ganesa-Pillai ◽  
Kendall T. Harris ◽  
A. Haji-Sheikh

This study concerns the flow and heat transfer characteristics of a turbulent submerged circular air jet impinging on a horizontal flat surface when free stream turbulence exceeds 20 percent. The turbulent fluctuations of the free stream velocity are the primary aerodynamics influencing heat transfer. Two regions with distinct flow characteristics are observed: the stagnation region, and the wall-jet region. According to the linear form of the energy equation, the surface heat flux may be decomposed into laminar and turbulent components. An inverse methodology can determine the turbulent component of the heat transfer coefficient in the stagnation region and in the wall-jet region as a function of the root mean square value of the fluctuating component of velocity in the bulk flow direction.


2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 1151-1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maheandera Prabu Paulraj ◽  
Rajesh Kanna Parthasarathy ◽  
Jan Taler ◽  
Dawid Taler ◽  
Pawel Oclon ◽  
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1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. MacMullin ◽  
W. Elrod ◽  
R. Rivir

The effects of the longitudinal turbulence intensity parameter of free-stream turbulence (FST) on heat transfer were studied using the aggressive flow characteristics of a circular tangential wall jet over a constant heat flux surface. Profile measurements of velocity, temperature, integral length scale, and spectra were obtained at downstream locations (2 to 20 x/D) and turbulence intensities (7 to 18 percent). The results indicated that the Stanton number (St) and friction factor (Cf) increased with increasing turbulence intensity. The Reynolds analogy factor (2St/Cf) increased up to turbulence intensities of 12 percent, then became constant, and decreased after 15 percent. This factor was also found to be dependent on the Reynolds number (Rex) and plate configuration. The influence of length scale, as found by previous researchers, was inconclusive at the conditions tested.


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