Effect of Narrow Jet Spacing on Impinging Flow and Heat Transfer

Author(s):  
L. Guo ◽  
Y. Y. Yan ◽  
Y. Q. Zu

Limited by the structures of the engineering components, sometimes the narrow gap impingement with limited jet-to-target spacing is required in the practical situations. In order to obtain an improved understanding upon the effects of narrow gap impingement on surface heat transfer and to fill gaps in the limited literatures, experiments of multi-jet impingement have been carried out using different jet-to-target distance (0.5D and 1D). Different configurations of jet-array are adopted and the transient thermochromic liquid crystal (TLC) is applied for the acquisition of the heat transfer data. Reynolds number of the jet flow ranges from 2.43×104 to 5.39×104. It shows that the impingement using 90° attack angle with a jet-to-target distance of 0.5D leads to non-uniform distributions of the Nusselt number, especially for the upstream jet-region. According to the experimental results, the jets with the non-orthogonal attack angle and staggered array perform better than the normal ones. Under the same experimental conditions, the staggered jets with 75° attack angle can give higher average Nusselt numbers with fewer fluctuations in the jet region.

Author(s):  
Florian Hoefler ◽  
Nils Dietrich ◽  
Jens von Wolfersdorf

A confined jet impingement configuration has been investigated in which the matter of interest is the convective heat transfer from the airflow to the passage walls. The geometry is similar to gas turbine applications. The setup is distinct from usual cooling passages by the fact that no crossflow and no bulk flow direction are present. The flow exhausts through two staggered rows of holes opposing the impingement wall. Hence, a complex 3-D vortex system arises, which entails a complex heat transfer situation. The transient Thermochromic Liquid Crystal (TLC) method was used to measure the heat transfer on the passage walls. Due to the nature of the experiment, the fluid as well as the wall temperature vary with location and time. As a prerequisite of the transient TLC technique, the heat transfer coefficient is assumed to be constant over the transient experiment. Therefore, additional measures were taken to qualify this assumption. The linear relation between heat flux and temperature difference could be verified for all measurement sites. This validates the assumption of a constant heat transfer coefficient which was made for the transient TLC experiments. Nusselt number evaluations from all techniques show a good agreement, considering the respective uncertainty ranges. For all sites the Nusselt numbers range within ±9% of the values gained from the TLC measurement.


2012 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Schueren ◽  
Florian Hoefler ◽  
Jens von Wolfersdorf ◽  
Shailendra Naik

The experimental and numerical heat transfer results in a trapezoidal duct with two staggered rows of inclined impingement jets are presented. The influence of changes in the jet bore geometry on the wall heat transfer is examined. The goal of this project is to minimize the thermal load in an internal gas turbine blade channel and to provide sufficient cooling for local hot spots. The dimensionless pitch is varied between p/djet=3 − 6. For p/djet=3, cylindrical and conically narrowing bores with a cross section reduction of 25% and 50%, respectively, are investigated. The studies are conducted at 10,000≤Re≤75,000. Experimental results are obtained using a transient thermochromic liquid crystal technique. The numerical simulations are performed solving the RANS equations with FLUENT using the low- Re k- ω -SST turbulence model. The results show that for a greater pitch, the decreasing interaction between the jets leads to diminished local wall heat transfer. The area averaged Nusselt numbers decrease by up to 15% for p/djet=4.5, and up to 30% for p/djet=6, respectively, if compared to the baseline pitch of p/djet=3. The conical bore design accelerates the jets, thus increasing the area-averaged heat transfer for identical mass-flow by up to 15% and 30% for the moderately and strongly narrowing jets, respectively. A dependency of the displacement between the Nu maximum and the geometric stagnation point from the jet shear layer is shown.


Author(s):  
Simon Schueren ◽  
Florian Hoefler ◽  
Jens von Wolfersdorf ◽  
Shailendra Naik

Experimental and numerical heat transfer results in a trapezoidal duct with two staggered rows of inclined impingement jets are presented. The influence of changes in the jet bore geometry on the wall heat transfer is examined. The goal of this project is to minimize the thermal load in an internal gas turbine blade channel and to provide sufficient cooling for local hot spots. The dimensionless pitch is varied between p/djet = 3–6. For p/djet = 3, cylindrical as well as conically narrowing bores with a cross section reduction of 25% and 50%, respectively, are investigated. The studies are conducted at 10,000 ≤ Re ≤ 75,000. Experimental results are obtained using a transient thermochromic liquid crystal technique. The numerical simulations are performed solving the RANS equations with FLUENT using the low-Re k-ω-SST turbulence model. The results show that for greater pitch, the decreasing interaction between the jets leads to diminished local wall heat transfer. The area averaged Nusselt numbers decrease by up to 15% for p/djet = 4.5, and up to 30% for p/djet = 6, respectively, if compared to the baseline pitch of p/djet = 3. The conical bore design accelerates the jets, thus increasing the area-averaged heat transfer for identical mass-flow by up to 15% and 30% for the moderately and strongly narrowing jets, respectively. A dependency of the displacement between the Nu maximum and the geometric stagnation point from the jet shear layer is shown.


Author(s):  
Yoshisaburo Yamane ◽  
Makoto Yamamoto ◽  
Shinji Honami

The purpose of this study is to clarify heat transfer characteristics for the high cooling performance with multiple jet impingement. In the present study, the influence of the interaction among adjacent impinging jets on heat transfer of target surface is experimentally investigated. The study is focused on the effect of jet injection shape on the heat transfer. 3×3 square array of cross-shaped circular jet is tested. Injection distances L are 2 and 4 jet hole diameters, and jet-to-jet spacing S are 4, 6 and 8 jet hole diameters. Experiments are conducted for a constant Reynolds number Re = 4,680 based on the jet hole diameter. Steady state thermochromic liquid crystal technique is employed to measure local and area averaged Nusselt numbers. The flow field is visualized by smoke-wire and oil flow techniques. It is found that the cross-shaped circular jet array improves heat transfer at the intermediate area enclosed by four impinging jets compared to that of circular jet array at the narrow injection distance. In the case of cross-shaped circular jet array, the wall jet produces a stronger turbulence than that of circular jet, which makes the heat transfer push up toward the apex of square detachment line at injection distance L/D = 2 and jet-to-jet spacing S/D = 6 and 8.


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 4074-4092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiguo Tang ◽  
Hai Li ◽  
Feng Zhang ◽  
Xiaoteng Min ◽  
Jianping Cheng

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the flow and heat transfer characteristics of the jet impingement onto a conical heat sink and evaluate the ability of heat transfer enhancement. Design/methodology/approach A numerical study of the flow and heat transfer of liquid impingement on cone heat sinks was conducted, and transition SST turbulence model was validated and adopted. The flow and thermal performances were investigated with the Reynolds number that ranges from 5,000 to 23,000 and cone angle that ranges from 0° to 70° in four regions. Findings Local Nusselt numbers are large, and pressure coefficients drop rapidly near the stagnation point. In the conical bottom edge, a secondary inclined jet was observed, thereby introducing a horseshoe vortex that causes drastic fluctuations in the curves of the flow and heat transfer. The average Nusselt numbers are higher in a conical protuberance than in flat plates in most cases, thus indicating that the heat transfer performance of jet impingement can be improved by a cone heat sink. The maximum increase is 13.6 per cent when the cone angle is 60°, and the Reynolds number is 23,000. Originality/value The flow and heat transfer behavior at the bottom edge of the cone heat sink is supplemented. The average heat transfer capacity of different heat transfer radii was evaluated, which provided a basis for the study of cone arrays.


Author(s):  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Yu Rao ◽  
Yanlin Li

This paper presents a numerical study on turbulent flow and heat transfer in the channels with a novel hybrid cooling structure with miniature V-shaped ribs and dimples on one wall. The heat transfer characteristics, pressure loss and turbulent flow structures in the channels with the rib-dimples with three different rib heights of 0.6 mm, 1.0 mm and 1.5 mm are obtained for the Reynolds numbers ranging from 18,700 to 60,000 by numerical simulations, which are also compared with counterpart of a pure dimpled and pure V ribbed channel. The results show that the overall Nusselt numbers of the V rib-dimple channel with the rib height of 1.5 mm is up to 70% higher than that of the channels with pure dimples. The numerical simulations show that the arrangement of the miniature V rib upstream each dimple induces complex secondary flow near the wall and generates downwashing vortices, which intensifies the flow mixing and turbulent kinetic energy in the dimple, resulting in significant improvement in heat transfer enhancement and uniformness.


2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1093-1106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soraya Trabelsi ◽  
Wissem Lakhal ◽  
Ezeddine Sediki ◽  
Mahmoud Moussa

Combined convection and radiation in simultaneously developing laminar flow and heat transfer is numerically considered with a discrete-direction method. Coupled heat transfer in absorbing emitting but not scattering gases is presented in some cases of practical situations such as combustion of natural gas, propane and heavy fuel. Numerical calculations are performed to evaluate the thermal radiation effects on heat transfer through combustion products flowing inside circular ducts. The radiative properties of the flowing gases are modeled by using the absorption distribution function (ADF) model. The fluid is a mixture of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and nitrogen. The flow and energy balance equations are solved simultaneously with temperature dependent fluid properties. The bulk mean temperature variations and Nusselt numbers are shown for a uniform inlet temperature. Total, radiative and convective mean Nusselt numbers and their axial evolution for different gas mixtures produced by combustion with oxygen are explored.


2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shyy Woei Chang ◽  
Yao Zheng

This paper describes an experimental study of heat transfer in a reciprocating planar curved tube that simulates a cooling passage in piston. The coupled inertial, centrifugal, and reciprocating forces in the reciprocating curved tube interact with buoyancy to exhibit a synergistic effect on heat transfer. For the present experimental conditions, the local Nusselt numbers in the reciprocating curved tube are in the range of 0.6–1.15 times of static tube levels. Without buoyancy interaction, the coupled reciprocating and centrifugal force effect causes the heat transfer to be initially reduced from the static level but recovered when the reciprocating force is further increased. Heat transfer improvement and impediment could be superimposed by the location-dependent buoyancy effect. The empirical heat transfer correlation has been developed to permit the evaluation of the individual and interactive effects of inertial, centrifugal, and reciprocating forces with and without buoyancy interaction on local heat transfer in a reciprocating planar curved tube.


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Abdelkrim Bouras ◽  
Djedid Taloub ◽  
Zied Driss

AbstractThis paper deals with numerical investigation of a natural convective flow in a horizontal annular space between a heated square inner cylinder and a cold elliptical outer cylinder with a Newtonian fluid. Uniform temperatures are imposed along walls of the enclosure. The governing equations of the problem were solved numerically by the commercial code Fluent, based on the finite volume method and the Boussinesq approximation. The effects of Geometry Ratio GR and Rayleigh numbers on fluid flow and heat transfer performance are investigated. The Rayleigh number is varied from 103 to 106. Throughout the study the relevant results are presented in terms of isotherms, and streamlines. From the results, we found that the increase in the Geometry Ratio B leads to an increase of the heat transfer coefficient. The heat transfer rate in the annulus is translated in terms of the average Nusselt numbers along the enclosure’s sides. Tecplot 7 program was used to plot the curves which cleared these relations and isotherms and streamlines which illustrate the behavior of air through the channel and its variation with other parameters. The results for the streamlines, isotherms, local and average Nusselt numbers average Nusselt numbers are compared with previous works and show good agreement.


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