Jet Impingement Heat Transfer in a Rectangular Channel With Smooth and Pinned Target Walls

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasser S. Alzahrani ◽  
Lesley M. Wright ◽  
Andrew Chen ◽  
Je-Chin Han

Abstract An experimental study was completed to quantify heat transfer enhancement, pressure loss, and crossflow effect within a channel of inline impinging jets. The jet diameter is 5.08 mm and the jet-to-jet spacing in the streamwise and spanwise directions is fixed at x/d = 11.1 and y/d = 5.9, respectively. The effect of jet-to-target surface spacing was considered with z/d = 3 and 6. For both of the jet-to-target surface spacings, a smooth surface, the reference case, and a surface roughened with partial height pins were investigated. The roughened surface has a staggered array of 120 partial height copper pin fins. The pin to jet diameter and the pin height to diameter ratios are D/d = 0.94 and H/D = 1.6, respectively. Regionally averaged heat transfer coefficient distributions were measured on the target surface, and these distributions were coupled with pressure measurements through the array. The heat transfer augmentation and pressure penalty were investigated over a range of jet Reynolds numbers (10K–70K). The results show high discharge coefficients for all the cases. The channels with the tight jet-to-target surface spacing experience double the cross-flow effect of its increased spacing counterpart. The addition of surface roughness showed a negligible effect on the crossflow. The best heat transfer performance was observed in the impingement channel with the pinned target surface at z/d = 3.

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):  
Matt Goodro ◽  
Jongmyung Park ◽  
Phil Ligrani ◽  
Mike Fox ◽  
Hee-Koo Moon

Data which illustrate the effects of hole spacing on the heat transfer from an array of jets impinging on a flat plate are presented. Considered are Reynolds numbers ranging from 8200, to 30500, and Mach numbers from 0.1 to 0.2. The spacing of the holes used to produce the impinging jets is either 8D or 12D in both the streamwise and spanwise directions. Local and spatially-averaged Nusselt numbers show strong dependence on the impingement jet Reynolds number for both situations. Experimental results show that local Nusselt numbers show some dependence on the Mach number for the smaller jet hole spacing, with negligible dependence for the larger jet hole spacing. This is partially a result of the accumulating cross-flows produced by the jets, as well as the interactions of the vortex structures which initially form around the jets, and then impact and interact as they advect away from stagnation points along the impingement target surface. Spatially-averaged Nusselt numbers generally decrease as x/D increases when hole spacing is 8D, whereas Nusselt numbers are generally about constant as x/D increases when hole spacing is 12D. This is partially due to cross-flow effects, as well as behavior of each jet in the array, which is similar to that of a single, isolated jet for the larger hole spacing. Spatially-averaged Nusselt numbers for 8D jet hole spacing are also often higher than values for the 12D jet hole spacing when compared at the same x/D location.


Volume 3 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Hebert ◽  
Srinath V. Ekkad ◽  
Vivek Khanna

Effective cooling of modern low NOx combustor liners is achieved through combinations of impingement and other heat transfer enhancement methods. In the present study, a combination of impingement and trip strips is studied to determine the optimum location of trip strips with respect to impingement jet arrays. Heat transfer with pure impingement has degradation downstream due to increased cross-flow effects. To counter the cross-flow induced heat transfer degradation, a combination technique wherein impingement is combined with ribs placed in between impingement rows or downstream of the impingement array is studied. Three configurations with increased rib placements and reduced impingement holes are studied and compared with pure impingement 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. Results show that the presence of ribs increases jet impingement heat transfer on the surface with lower mass flows. The effectiveness of the combination ribs and impingement can provide higher heat transfer with reduced cooling air requirements.


2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Parsons ◽  
Je-Chin Han

The effect of channel rotation on jet impingement cooling by arrays of circular jets in twin channels was studied. Impinging jet flows were in the direction of rotation in one channel and opposite to the direction of rotation in the other channel. The jets impinged normally on the smooth, heated target wall in each channel. The spent air exited the channels through extraction holes in each target wall, which eliminates cross flow on other jets. Jet rotation numbers and jet Reynolds numbers varied from 0.0 to 0.0028 and 5000 to 10,000, respectively. For the target walls with jet flow in the direction of rotation (or opposite to the direction of rotation), as rotation number increases heat transfer decreases up to 25% (or 15%) as compared to corresponding results for non-rotating conditions. This is due to the changes in flow distribution and rotation induced Coriolis and centrifugal forces.


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.


Author(s):  
Srivatsan Madhavan ◽  
Kishore Ranganath Ramakrishnan ◽  
Prashant Singh ◽  
Srinath Ekkad

Abstract Array-jet impingement is typically used in gas turbine blade near-wall cooling, where high rates of heat dissipation is required. The accumulated crossflow mass flux results in significant reduction in jet effectiveness in the downstream rows, leading to reduced cooling performance. In this paper, a jet impingement system equipped with U-shaped ribs (hereafter referred as “diverter”) was used for diverting the crossflow away from the jets emanating from the nozzle plate. To this end, a baseline configuration of array-jet impingement onto smooth target surface is considered, where the normalized jet-to-jet spacing (x/dj = y/dj) was 6 and the normalized jet-to-target spacing (z/dj) was 2. Crossflow diverters with thickness t of 1.5875 mm and height h of 2dj (= z) were installed at a distance of 2dj from the respective jet centers. Detailed heat transfer coefficients have been calculated through transient liquid crystal experiments carried out over Reynolds numbers ranging from 3500 to 12,000. It has been observed that crossflow diverters protect the downstream jets from upstream jet deflection, thereby maximizing their stagnation cooling potential. An average of 15–30% enhancement in Nusselt number is obtained over the flow range tested. This benefit in heat transfer came at a cost of increased pumping power to maintain similar flow rate in the system. At a given pumping power, crossflow diverters yielded an enhancement of 9–15% in heat transfer compared with the baseline case.


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

Abstract Regenerative cooling of low NOx gas turbine combustors was investigated using impingement heat transfer with all the combustion air used for wall cooling prior to passing to the flame stabiliser. 10 rows of impingement holes were modelled. Three obstacles were compared with smooth wall impingement heat transfer. The CHT/CFD methodology used was that validated against experimental results in previous publications of the authors. The impingement heat transfer enhancement geometries investigated were circular pin-fins, dimples and zig-zag ribs, which were aligned transverse to the direction of the cross-flow on the impingement target surface. The obstacles were equally spaced on the centre-line between each row of impingement jets transverse to the cross-flow. One heat transfer enhancement obstacle was used per impingement jet air hole. The CFD calculations were carried out for an air mass flux G of 1.08, 1.48 and 1.94 kg/sm2bara, which are the high flow rates used for regenerative combustor wall cooling. Comparison of the current CFD predictions and previous CFD work, that have experimental data, were made for the flow pressure loss and the surface and locally X2 average HTC, h. It was concluded that none of the obstacles in the impingement gap a significant increase in the surface averaged heat transfer coefficient (HTC). The impact of the obstacles was to increase the flow maldistribution due to the increased pressure loss. This resulted is less heat transfer from the reduced air mass flow in the first 4 holes and increased heat transfer in the last 4 holes, relative to the smooth wall results. The main effect of the obstacles was to increase the heat transfer to the impingement jet surface. The dimpled surface was predicted to have a very poor performance, with significantly reduced impingement heat transfer. This was due to the impingement jets being deflected away from the target surface by the shape of the dimples and this reduced the surface heat transfer.


Author(s):  
C.-S. Lee ◽  
T. I-P. Shih ◽  
K. M. Bryden ◽  
R. Ames ◽  
R. A. Dennis

Computations were performed to study the flow and heat transfer in a jet-impingement configuration in which there is no cross flow about the impinging cooling jets. The configuration consists of two sets of staggered arrays of holes with one array of holes for jets to impinge and cool a target wall with or without strategically positioned pin fins and a second array positioned midway relative to the first array of holes for the impinging jets to exit the configuration. For this configuration, the following parameter were investigated: distance between the jet-hole exit and the target surface to be cooled (H/d = 0.5, 1, 4), spacing between jets (S/d = 2, 4), and pin-fin height (Hp/d = 0, 1, 2) on the target surface, where d is the diameter of the holes in the arrays. Also, the jet-impingement velocity was varied to study a range Reynolds numbers based on the hole diameter d and the mean velocity of the jet in the hole (Red = 20,000, 40,000, and 60,000). For all cases studied, the temperature of the coolant air is 673 K; the wall to be cooled is maintained at 1,273 K; and the static pressure at the exit of the jet-impingement array is maintained at 25 bars. This computational study is based on steady RANS – compressible Navier-Stokes with the shear-stress transport model for turbulence where integration is to the wall (i.e., wall functions were not used) and temperature-dependent properties are accounted for.


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