An Experimental Study of Impingement Heat Transfer on the Surfaces With Micro W-Shaped Ribs

Author(s):  
Yu Rao ◽  
Peng Chen ◽  
Jiaqi Zhu

The paper proposed an idea of using micro-W-shaped ribs on a test plate to improve the impingement heat transfer performance in a multiple-jet impingement cooling system. An experimental study has been conducted on the heat transfer characteristics of multiple-jet impingement onto a flat plate and a roughened plate with micro W-shaped ribs under maximum cross flow scheme. Transient liquid crystal thermography method has been used to obtain the detailed impingement heat transfer distribution for the Reynolds numbers from 15,000 to 30,000.The effects of micro W ribs on the local Nusselt number and the related pressure loss were investigated experimentally. The jet-to-plate spacing H/d=1.5 was used in the experiments for both the flat and the micro-W-rib roughened plate. The experiments showed that the micro W ribs on the plate can enhance the impingement heat transfer globally and locally, and increase the heat transfer uniformity, which are due to the facts that the micro W ribs on the test plate increase the near-wall turbulent mixing by interacting with the wall jets and cross flow. The pressure loss is negligibly increased compared to the impingement onto the flat plate.

Author(s):  
Yue Yang ◽  
Junkui Mao ◽  
Feilong Wang

Abstract In the jets array cooling system of the gas turbine, the downstream jets will be deflected by the crossflow and the heat transfer in the downstream will be suppressed. In this paper, the rectangular vortex generators are arranged in the jet arrays to enhance the jet impingement heat transfer. Through the numerical simulations, the configuration of rectangular vortex generators (Common-flow-down CFD and Common-flow-up CFU) and the relative position (l2) between the impingements and the rectangular vortex generators are studied. The results show that both of configurations are beneficial to the suppression of the crossflow and enhance the heat transfer in the downstream. The maximum enhancement of the whole regional average Nusselt numbers in CFD-VGs configuration can reach up to 9.09% with lower than 5% increase of the pressure loss and that in CFU-VGs configuration can reach up to 10.8% with lower than 4.8% increase of the pressure loss. From the perspective of the whole regional average Nusselt numbers and the overall thermal efficiency, the CFD-VGs with l2 = 0 has the best performance. However, from the perspective of the whole regional average Nusselt numbers, the CFU-VGs with l2 = 0 has the best performance, while from the perspective of the overall thermal efficiency, the CFU-VGs with l2 = 3 has the best performance.


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

Abstract Nanoliquid impingement heat transfer with phase change material (PCM) installed radial system is considered. Study is performed by using finite element method for various values of Reynolds numbers (100 ≤ Re ≤ 300), height of PCM (0.25H ≤ hpcm = 0.7H ≤ 0.75H) and plate spacing (0.15H ≤ hpcm = 0.7H ≤ 0.40H). Different configurations with using water, nanoliquid and nanoliquid+PCM are compared in terms of heat transfer improvement. Thermal performance is improved by using PCM while best performance is achieved with nanoliquid and PCM installed configuration. At Re=100 and Re=300, heat transfer improvements of 26% and 25.5% are achieved with nanoliquid+PCM system as compared to water without PCM. Height of the PCM layer also influences the heat transfer dynamic behavior while there is 12.6% variation in the spatial average heat transfer of the target surface with the lowest and highest PCM height while discharging time increases by about 76.5%. As the spacing between the plates decreases, average heat transfer rises and there is 38% variation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 586-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Zhou ◽  
Guiping Lin ◽  
Xueqin Bu ◽  
Lizhan Bai ◽  
Dongsheng Wen

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parkpoom Sriromreun ◽  
Paranee Sriromreun

This research was aimed at studying the numerical and experimental characteristics of the air flow impinging on a dimpled surface. Heat transfer enhancement between a hot surface and the air is supposed to be obtained from a dimple effect. In the experiment, 15 types of test plate were investigated at different distances between the jet and test plate (B), dimple diameter (d) and dimple distance (Er and Eθ). The testing fluid was air presented in an impinging jet flowing at Re = 1500 to 14,600. A comparison of the heat transfer coefficient was performed between the jet impingement on the dimpled surface and the flat plate. The velocity vector and the temperature contour showed the different air flow characteristics from different test plates. The highest thermal enhancement factor (TEF) was observed under the conditions of B = 2 d, d = 1 cm, Er= 2 d, Eθ = 1.5 d and Re = 1500. This TEF was obtained from the dimpled surface and was 5.5 times higher than that observed in the flat plate.


Author(s):  
Abubakar M. El-Jummah ◽  
Gordon E. Andrews ◽  
John E. J. Staggs

Impingement heat transfer investigations with obstacle (fins) on the target surface were carried out with the obstacles aligned normal to the cross-flow. Conjugate heat transfer (CHT) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis were used for the geometries previously been investigated experimentally. A 10 × 10 row of impingement jet holes or hole density, n, of 4306 m−2 with ten rows of holes in the cross-flow direction was used. The impingement hole pitch X to diameter D, X/D, and gap Z to diameter, Z/D, ratios were kept constant at 4.66 and 3.06 for X, D and Z of 15.24, 3.27 and 10.00 mm, respectively. Nimonic 75 test walls were used with a thickness of 6.35 mm. Two different shaped obstacles of the same flow blockage were investigated: a continuous rectangular ribbed wall of 4.5 mm height, H, and 3.0 mm thick and 8 mm high rectangular pin-fins that were 8.6 mm wide and 3.0 mm thick. The obstacles were equally spaced on the centre-line between each row of impingement jets and aligned normal to the cross-flow. The two obstacles had height to diameter ratios, H/D, of 1.38 and 2.45, respectively. Comparison of the predictions and experimental results were made for the flow pressure loss, ΔP/P, and the surface average heat transfer coefficient (HTC), h. The computations were carried out for air coolant mass flux, G, of 1.08, 1.48 and 1.94 kg/sm2bar. The pressure loss and surface average HTC for all the predicted G showed reasonable agreement with the experimental results, but the predictions for surface averaged h were below the measured values by 5–10%. The predictions showed that the main effect of the ribs and pins was to increase the pressure loss, which led to an increased flow maldistribution between the ten rows of holes. This led to lower heat transfer over the first 5 holes and higher heat transfer over the last 3 holes and the net result was little benefit of either obstacle relative to a smooth wall. The results were significantly worse than the same obstacles aligned for co-flow, where the flow maldistribution changes were lower and there was a net benefit of the obstacles on the surface averaged heat transfer coefficient.


Author(s):  
Ryan Hebert ◽  
Srinath V. Ekkad ◽  
Vivek Khanna ◽  
Mario Abreu ◽  
Hee-Koo Moon

Impingement heat transfer is significantly affected by initial cross-flow or by the presence of cross-flow from upstream spent jets. In this study, a zero cross-flow design is presented. The zero-crossflow design creates spacing between hole arrays to allow for spent flow to be directed away from impinging jets. Three configurations with different impingement holes placements are studied and compared with pure impingement with spent crossflow cases for the same jet Reynolds number. Three jet Reynolds numbers are studied for Rej = 10000, 20000, and 30000. Detailed heat transfer distributions are obtained using the transient liquid crystal technique. The zero-cross flow design clearly shows minimal degradation of impingement heat transfer due to crossflow compared to conventional design with lower mass flow rate requirement and lesser number of overall impingement holes due to the reduced cross-flow effect on the impingement region.


Author(s):  
Chaoyi Wan ◽  
Yu Rao ◽  
Xiang Zhang

A numerical investigation of the heat transfer characteristics within an array of impingement jets on a flat and square pin-fin roughened plate with spent air in one direction has been conducted. Four types of optimized pin-fin configurations and the flat plate have been investigated in the Reynolds number range of 15000–35000. All the computation results have been validated well with the data of published literature. The effects of variation of jet Reynolds number and different configurations on the distribution of the average and local Nusselt number and the related pressure loss have been obtained. The highest total heat transfer rate increased up to 162% with barely any extra pressure loss compared with that of the flat plate. Pressure distributions and streamlines have also been captured to explain the heat transfer characteristic.


2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Brakmann ◽  
Lingling Chen ◽  
Bernhard Weigand ◽  
Michael Crawford

A generic impingement cooling system for turbomachinery application is modeled experimentally and numerically to investigate heat transfer and pressure loss characteristics. The experimental setup consists of an array of 9 × 9 jets impinging on a target plate with cubic micro pin fins. The cubic micro pin fins have an edge length of 0.22 D and enlarge the target area by 150%. Experimentally heat transfer is measured by the transient liquid crystal (TLC) method. The transient method used requires a heated jet impinging on a cold target plate. As reference temperature for the heat transfer coefficient, we use the total jet inlet temperature which is measured via thermocouples in the jet center. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was realized within the software package ANSYS CFX. This model uses a Steady-state 3D Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) approach and the shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model. Boundary conditions are chosen to mimic the experiments as close as possible. The effects of different jet-to-plate spacing (H/D = 3–5), crossflow schemes, and jet Reynolds number (15,000–35,000) are investigated experimentally and numerically. The results include local Nusselt numbers as well as area and line averaged values. Numerical simulations allow a detailed insight into the fluid mechanics of the problem and complement experimental measurements. A good overall agreement of experimental and numerical behavior for all investigated cases could be reached. Depending on the crossflow scheme, the cubic micro pin fin setup increases the heat flux to about 134–142% compared to a flat target plate. At the same time, the Nusselt number slightly decreases. The micro pin fins increase the pressure loss by not more than 14%. The results show that the numerical model predicts the heat transfer characteristics of the cubic micro pin fins in a satisfactory way.


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