Turbulent Impinging Jets Into Permeable Media

Author(s):  
Marcelo J. S. de Lemos ◽  
Daniel R. Graminho

Impinging jets are widely used in industry to modify local heat transfer coefficients. The addition of a porous substrate covering the surface contributes to better flow distribution, which favors many engineering applications. Motivated by that, this work shows numerical results for a turbulent jet impinging against a cylindrical enclosure with a porous substrate at the bottom. Macroscopic time-averaged equations for mass and momentum are obtained based on a concept called double decomposition, which considers spatial deviations and temporal fluctuations of flow properties. The numerical technique employed for discretizing the governing equations is the control volume method in conjunction with a boundary-fitted coordinate system. The SIMPLE algorithm is used to handle the pressure-velocity coupling. The influence of the cylinder height on the mean and statistical flow fields within the entire cavity is presented.

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo J. S. de Lemos ◽  
Daniel R. Graminho

Turbulent impinging jets on heated surfaces are widely used in industry to modify local heat transfer coefficients. The addition of a porous substrate covering the surface contributes to a better flow distribution, which favors many engineering applications. Motivated by this, the present work shows numerical results for a turbulent impinging jet against a cylindrical enclosure with and without a porous layer at the bottom. The macroscopic time-averaged equations for mass, momentum and energy are obtained based on a concept called double decomposition, which considers spatial deviations and temporal fluctuations of flow properties. The numerical technique employed for discretizing the governing equations is the control volume method in conjunction with a boundary-fitted non-orthogonal coordinate system. The SIMPLE algorithm is used to handle the pressure-velocity coupling. The influence of characteristics of the porous layer on the mean and statistical flow fields within the cylinder is presented.


2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lamyaa A. El-Gabry ◽  
Deborah A. Kaminski

Abstract Measurements of the local heat transfer distribution on smooth and roughened surfaces under an array of angled impinging jets are presented. The test rig is designed to simulate impingement with cross-flow in one direction which is a common method for cooling gas turbine components such as the combustion liner. Jet angle is varied between 30, 60, and 90 degrees as measured from the impingement surface, which is either smooth or randomly roughened. Liquid crystal video thermography is used to capture surface temperature data at five different jet Reynolds numbers ranging between 15,000 and 35,000. The effect of jet angle, Reynolds number, gap, and surface roughness on heat transfer efficiency and pressure loss is determined along with the various interactions among these parameters. Peak heat transfer coefficients for the range of Reynolds number from 15,000 to 35,000 are highest for orthogonal jets impinging on roughened surface; peak Nu values for this configuration ranged from 88 to 165 depending on Reynolds number. The ratio of peak to average Nu is lowest for 30-degree jets impinging on roughened surfaces. It is often desirable to minimize this ratio in order to decrease thermal gradients, which could lead to thermal fatigue. High thermal stress can significantly reduce the useful life of engineering components and machinery. Peak heat transfer coefficients decay in the cross-flow direction by close to 24% over a dimensionless length of 20. The decrease of spanwise average Nu in the crossflow direction is lowest for the case of 30-degree jets impinging on a roughened surface where the decrease was less than 3%. The decrease is greatest for 30-degree jet impingement on a smooth surface where the stagnation point Nu decreased by more than 23% for some Reynolds numbers.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kumagai ◽  
R. S. Amano ◽  
M. K. Jensen

Abstract A numerical and experimental investigation on cooling of a solid surface was performed by studying the behavior of an impinging jet onto a fixed flat target. The local heat transfer coefficient distributions on a plate with a constant heat flux were computationally investigated with a normally impinging axisymmetric jet for nozzle diameter of 4.6mm at H/d = 4 and 10, with the Reynolds numbers of 10,000 and 40,000. The two-dimensional cylindrical Navier-Stokes equations were solved using a two-equation k-ε turbulence model. The finite-volume differencing scheme was used to solve the thermal and flow fields. The predicted heat transfer coefficients were compared with experimental measurements. A universal function based on the wave equation was developed and applied to the heat transfer model to improve calculated local heat transfer coefficients for short nozzle-to-plate distance (H/d = 4). The differences between H/d = 4 and 10 due to the correlation among heat transfer coefficient, kinetic energy and pressure were investigated for the impingement region. Predictions by the present model show good agreement with the experimental data.


1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Zumbrunnen ◽  
M. Aziz

An experimental investigation has been performed to study the effect of flow intermittency on convective heat transfer to a planar water jet impinging on a constant heat flux surface. Enhanced heat transfer was achieved by periodically restarting an impinging flow and thereby forcing renewal of the hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layers. Although convective heat transfer was less effective during a short period when flow was interrupted, high heat transfer rates, which immediately follow initial wetting, prevailed above a threshold frequency, and a net enhancement occurred. Experiments with intermittent flows yielded enhancements in convective heat transfer coefficients of nearly a factor of two, and theoretical considerations suggest that higher enhancements can be achieved by increasing the frequency of the intermittency. Enhancements need not result in an increased pressure drop within a flow system, since flow interruptions can be induced beyond a nozzle exit. Experimental results are presented for both the steady and intermittent impinging jets at distances up to seven jet widths from the stagnation line. A theoretical model of the transient boundary layer response is used to reveal parameters that govern the measured enhancements. A useful correlation is also provided of local heat transfer results for steadily impinging jets.


Author(s):  
F. Burggraf

Impingement heat transfer coefficients are presented for a row of holes impinging into an oval cavity with the spent air leaving through holes on one or both sides of the cavity. The distribution around the cavity surface is obtained and is correlated with a survey of the recent literature. In addition, local heat flux gages were used with an impingement jet air supply which could be changed in location along the axis of the test section. This permitted the determination of local heat transfer coefficient distribution over the surface both around the cavity and also in the region between the impinging jets. This two-dimensional distribution is shown to be influenced by the bleed geometry and the shape of the impinging jet holes.


1978 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. R. Hollworth ◽  
R. D. Berry

Local and average convective heat transfer coefficients were measured for arrays of widely spaced impinging air jets and correlated in terms of system geometry, air flow, and fluid properties. The configurations were square arrays of circular turbulent jets (spaced from 10–25 diameters apart) incident upon a flat isothermal target surface. Independent parameters were varied over ranges generally corresponding to gas turbine cooling applications. Local heat transfer coefficients were influenced by interference from neighboring jets only when the target plate and the jet orifice plate were less than five jet diameters apart. Average heat transfer coefficients were nearly equal for all the arrays tested as long as the coolant flow per unit area of target surface was held constant. In fact, there was a tendency for the more widely spaced configurations to produce slightly higher average heat transfer under such conditions.


Author(s):  
X. Terry Yan ◽  
Yavaraj Saravanan

Local heat transfer from a flat plate to a pair of circular air impinging jets is investigated numerically. A pair of impinging jets from fully-developed pipe flows are used for the numerical simulations. The Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equations(RANS) and energy equation are solved for the three dimensional flow. Eddy-viscocity based turbulence models, RNG k-epsilon and V2F models, are used. Hybrid meshes are used for the three dimensional flows and mesh independent solutions are obtained. The flow Reynolds number, which is based on the jet diameter, is kept at 23,000. In the analysis, local heat transfer coefficients are obtained for the jet-to-plate distance, L/D, ranging from 2 to 10 and the jet-to-jet spacing, S/D, in the range of 1.75 to 7.0. Both local and average heat transfer coefficients are evaluated and compared with available experimental data under same flow conditions. The effect of using different turbulence models in the numerical analysis is evaluated and the selection of proper turbulence models under such a flow condition is suggested.


Author(s):  
Jahed Hossain ◽  
John Harrington ◽  
Wenping Wang ◽  
Jayanta Kapat ◽  
Steven Thorpe ◽  
...  

Experiments to investigate the effect of varying jet hole diameter and jet spacing on heat transfer and pressure loss from jet array impingement on a curved target surface are reported. The jet plate configurations studied have varying hole diameters and geometric spacing for spatial tuning of the heat transfer behavior. The configuration also includes a straight section downstream of the curved section, where the effect on heat transfer and pressure loss is also investigated. The jet plate holes are sharp-edged. A steady-state measurement technique utilizing temperature-sensitive paint (TSP) was used on the target surface to obtain local heat transfer coefficients. Pressure taps placed on the sidewall and jet plate of the channel were used to evaluate the flow distribution in the impingement channel. For all configurations, spent air is drawn out in a single direction which is tangential to the target plate curvature. First row jet Reynolds numbers ranging from 50,000 to 160,000 are reported. Further tests were performed to evaluate several modifications to the impingement array. These involve blocking several downstream rows of jets, measuring the subsequent shifts in the pressure and heat transfer data, and then applying different turbulator designs in an attempt to recover the loss in the heat transfer while retaining favorable pressure loss. It was found that by using W-shaped turbulators, the downstream surface average Nusselt number increases up to ∼13% as compared with a smooth case using the same amount of coolant. The results suggest that by properly combining impingement and turbulators (in the post impingement section), higher heat transfer, lower flow rate, and lower pressure drop are simultaneously obtained, thus providing an optimal scenario.


1985 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 910-915 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. R. Hollworth ◽  
L. R. Gero

Convective heat transfer was measured for a heated axisymmetric air jet impinging on a flat surface. It was found that the local heat transfer coefficient does not depend explicitly upon the temperature mismatch between the jet fluid and the ambient fluid if the convection coefficient is defined in terms of the difference between the local recovery temperature and target surface temperature. In fact, profiles of local heat transfer coefficients defined in this manner were found to be identical to those measured for isothermal impinging jets.


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