Mixed Convection in Cooling of a Surface by Two-Dimensional Confined Slot Jet Impingement

Author(s):  
Dipankar Sahoo ◽  
M. A. R. Sharif

The flow and heat transfer characteristics in the cooling of a heated surface by impinging confined jets have been investigated numerically through the steady state solution of laminar two-dimensional Navier-Stokes and energy equations. The principal objective of this study is to investigate the effect of buoyancy on the associated heat transfer process. Numerical computations are done for vertically downward directed two-dimensional confined slot jets impinging on a hot isothermal surface at the bottom. The computed flow patterns and isotherms for various domain aspect ratios and for a range of jet exit Reynolds numbers (100–500) and Richardson numbers (0–10) are analyzed to understand the heat transfer phenomena. The local and average Nusselt numbers at the hot surface for various conditions are compared. It is observed that for a given domain aspect ratio and Richardson number, the average Nusselt number at the hot surface increases with increasing jet exit Reynolds number. On the other hand, for a given aspect ratio and Reynolds number the average Nusselt number does not change significantly with Richardson number indicating that the buoyancy effects are not very significant on the overall heat transfer process for the range of jet Reynolds number considered in this study.

1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Chin ◽  
C. F. Ma ◽  
X. Q. Gu ◽  
L. Xu

Mixed convection from a small heater (5mm × 5mm) to liquid flows in a horizontal rectangular channel is investigated experimentally. The results of three cases in which the buoyancy is normal to the liquid flow directions — hot surface facing upward, facing downward and vertically attached to one wall of the channel — are presented. Correlations are also provided to predict the mixed convective effects in the range 100 < ReL < 4000. The results demonstrated that both the Reynolds number ReL and the modified Rayleigh number RaL* pronouncedly dominate the heat transfer process. In all of the above cases, heat transfer was enhanced over that of forced convection.


2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Hassaneen ◽  
Muhammad M. Rahman

Abstract This paper presents results of CFD computation of the heat transfer process in a radial impinging free liquid jet. The jet is impinging on a flat circular disk and the flow downstream of the impinging area spreads outward and inward on the disk. The solution is made under steady state and laminar flow conditions. The solution is obtained for the axisymmetric radial jet with two free surfaces. Different incidence angle of the jet and different flow Reynolds number (Re) were considered in the analysis. The effect of jet elevation from the disk is discussed in addition to different thickness of the hot plate. Due to lack of experimental data on this typical flow problem, the results were qualitatively compared with the available experimental data of the closest flow condition in the literature. The jet incidence angle and jet elevation were found to have strong effects on the velocity field and the free surface position of the spreading flow on the disk and consequently affected the heat transfer process. The disc thickness is also found to have a strong effect on the local and average Nusselt number. Results are documented by plotting the distribution of local and average Nusselt number versus the geometrical parameters.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 2404-2422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mubbashar Nazeer ◽  
N. Ali ◽  
T. Javed

Purpose The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of moving wall on the mixed convection flow and heat transfer in a right-angle triangular cavity filled with a micropolar fluid. Design/methodology/approach It is assumed that the bottom wall is uniformly heated and the right inclined wall is cold, whereas the vertical wall is adiabatic and moving with upward/downward velocity v0/−v0, respectively. The micropolar fluid is considered to satisfy the Boussinesq approximation. The governing equations and boundary conditions are solved using the Galerkin finite element method. The Penalty method is used to eliminate the pressure term from the momentum equations. To accomplish the consistent solution, the value of the penalty parameter is taken 107. The simulations are performed for a wide range of Richardson number, micropolar parameter, Prandtl number and Reynolds number. Findings The results are presented in the form of streamlines, isotherms and variations of average Nusselt number and fluid flow rate depending on the Richardson number, Prandtl number, micropolar parameter and direction of the moving wall. The flow field and temperature distribution in the cavity are affected by these parameters. An average Nusselt number into the cavity in both cases increase with increasing Prandtl and Richardson numbers and decreases with increasing micropolar parameter, and it has a maximum value when the lid is moving in the downward direction for all the physical parameters. Research limitations/implications The present investigation is conducted for the steady, two-dimensional mixed convective flow in a right-angle triangular cavity filled with micropolar fluid. An extension of the present study with the effects of cavity inclination, square cavity, rectangular, trapezoidal and wavy cavity will be the interest of future work. Originality/value This work studies the effects of moving wall, micropolar parameter, Richardson number, Prandtl number and Reynolds number parameter in a right-angle triangular cavity filled with a micropolar fluid on the fluid flow and heat transfer. This study might be useful to flows of biological fluids in thin vessels, polymeric suspensions, liquid crystals, slurries, colloidal suspensions, exotic lubricants, solar engineering for construction of triangular solar collector, construction of thermal insulation structure and geophysical fluid mechanics, etc.


Author(s):  
Akand W. Islam ◽  
Muhammad A. R. Sharif ◽  
Eric S. Carlson

Laminar mixed convection characteristics in a square cavity with an isothermally heated square blockage inside have been investigated numerically using the finite volume method of the ANSYS FLUENT commercial CFD code. Various different blockage sizes and concentric and eccentric placement of the blockage inside the cavity have been considered. The blockage is maintained at a hot temperature, Th, and four surfaces of the cavity (including the lid) are maintained at a cold temperature, Tc, under all circumstances. The physical problem is represented mathematically by sets of governing conservation equations of mass, momentum, and energy. The geometrical and flow parameters for the problem are the blockage ratio (B), the blockage placement eccentricities (εx and εy), the Reynolds number (Re), the Grashof number (Gr), and the Richardson number (Ri). The flow and heat transfer behavior in the cavity for a range of Richardson number (0.01–100) at a fixed Reynolds number (100) and Prandtl number (0.71) is examined comprehensively. The variations of the average and local Nusselt number at the blockage surface at various Richardson numbers for different blockage sizes and placement eccentricities are presented. From the analysis of the mixed convection process, it is found that for any size of the blockage placed anywhere in the cavity, the average Nusselt number does not change significantly with increasing Richardson number until it approaches the value of the order of 1 beyond which the average Nusselt number increases rapidly with the Richardson number. For the central placement of the blockage at any fixed Richardson number, the average Nusselt number decreases with increasing blockage ratio and reaches a minimum at around a blockage ratio of slightly larger than 1/2. For further increase of the blockage ratio, the average Nusselt number increases again and becomes independent of the Richardson number. The most preferable heat transfer (based on the average Nusselt number) is obtained when the blockage is placed around the top left and the bottom right corners of the cavity.


Author(s):  
Salaika Parvin ◽  
Nepal Chandra Roy ◽  
Litan Kumar Saha ◽  
Sadia Siddiqa

A numerical study is performed to investigate nanofluids' flow field and heat transfer characteristics between the domain bounded by a square and a wavy cylinder. The left and right walls of the cavity are at constant low temperature while its other adjacent walls are insulated. The convective phenomena take place due to the higher temperature of the inner corrugated surface. Super elliptic functions are used to transform the governing equations of the classical rectangular enclosure into a system of equations valid for concentric cylinders. The resulting equations are solved iteratively with the implicit finite difference method. Parametric results are presented in terms of streamlines, isotherms, local and average Nusselt numbers for a wide range of scaled parameters such as nanoparticles concentration, Rayleigh number, and aspect ratio. Several correlations have been deduced at the inner and outer surface of the cylinders for the average Nusselt number, which gives a good agreement when compared against the numerical results. The strength of the streamlines increases significantly due to an increase in the aspect ratio of the inner cylinder and the Rayleigh number. As the concentration of nanoparticles increases, the average Nusselt number at the internal and external cylinders becomes stronger. In addition, the average Nusselt number for the entire Rayleigh number range gets enhanced when plotted against the volume fraction of the nanofluid.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 858-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Gau ◽  
C. M. Chung

Experiments are performed to study surface curvature effects on the impingement cooling flow and the heat transfer processes over a concave and a convex surface. A single air jet issuing from different size slots continuously impinges normally on the concave side or the convexside of a heated semicylindrical surface. An electrical resistance wire is used to generate smoke, which allows us to visualize the impinging flow structure. The local heat transfer Nusselt number along the surfaces is measured. For impingement on a convex surface, three-dimensional counterrotating vortices on the stagnation point are initiated, which result in the enhancement of the heat transfer process. For impingement on a concave surface, the heat transfer Nusselt number increases with increasing surface curvature, which suggests the initiation of Taylor–Go¨rtler vortices along the surface. In the experiment, the Reynolds number ranges from 6000 to 350,000, the slot-to-plate spacing from 2 to 16, and the diameter-to-slot-width ratio D/b from 8 to 45.7. Correlations of both the stagnation point and the average Nusselt number over the curved surface, which account for the surface curvature effect, are presented.


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (6 Part A) ◽  
pp. 2431-2442
Author(s):  
Arash Lavasani ◽  
Mousa Farhadi ◽  
Darzi Rabienataj

In the present study, the effect of suspension of nanoparticle on mixed convection flow is investigated numerically in lid driven cavity with fins on its hot surface. Study is carried out for Richardson numbers ranging from 0.1 to 10, fin(s) height ratio change from 0.05 to 0.15 and volume fraction of nanoparticles from 0 to 0.03, respectively. The thermal conductivity ratio (kfin/kf) is equal to 330 and Grashof number is assumed to be constant (104) so that the Richardson numbers changes with Reynolds number. Results show that the heat transfer enhances by using nanofluid for all studied Richardson numbers. Adding fins on hot wall has different effects on heat transfer depend to Richardson number and height of fins. Use of low height fin in flow with high Richardson number enhances the heat transfer rate while by increasing the height of fin the heat transfer reduces even lower than it for pure fluid. The overall enhancement in Nusselt number by adding 3% nanoparticles and 3 fins is 54% at Ri=10. They cause reduction of Nusselt Number by 25% at Ri=0.1. Higher fins decrease the heat transfer due to blocking fluid at corners of fins.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (8(112)) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Mahmoud A. Mashkour

The heat convection phenomenon has been investigated numerically (mathematically) for a channel located horizontally and partially heated at a uniform heat flux with forced and free heat convection. The investigated horizontal channel with a fluid inlet and the enclosure was exposed to the heat source from the bottom while the channel upper side was kept with a constant temperature equal to fluid outlet temperature. Transient, laminar, incompressible and mixed convective flow is assumed within the channel. Therefore, the flow field is estimated using Navier Stokes equations, which involves the Boussinesq approximation. While the temperature field is calculated using the standard energy model, where, Re, Pr, Ri are Reynolds number, Prandtl number, and Richardson number, respectively. Reynolds number (Re) was changed during the test from 1 to 50 (1, 10, 25, and 50) for each case study, Richardson (Ri) number was changed during the test from 1 to 25 (1, 5, 10, 15, 20, and, 25). The average Nusselt number (Nuav) increases exponentially with the Reynold number for each Richardson number and the local Nusselt number (NuI) rises in the heating point. Then gradually stabilized until reaching the endpoint of the channel while the local Nusselt number increases with a decrease in the Reynolds number over there. In addition, the streamlines and isotherms patterns in case of the very low value of the Reynolds number indicate very low convective heat transfer with all values of Richardson number. Furthermore, near the heat source, the fluid flow rate rise increases the convection heat transfer that clarified the Nusselt number behavior with Reynolds number indicating that maximum Nu No. are 6, 12, 27 and 31 for Re No. 1, 10, 25 and 50, respectively


Author(s):  
Pratik S. Bhansali ◽  
Srinath V. Ekkad

Abstract Heat transfer over rotating surfaces is of particular interest in rotating machinery such as gas turbine engines. The rotation of the gas turbine disc creates a radially outward flow on the disc surface, which may lead to ingress of hot gases into the narrow cavity between the disc and the stator. Impingement of cooling jet is an effective way of cooling the disc and countering the ingress of the hot gases. Present study focusses on investigating the effect of introducing pin-fins over the rotating disc on the heat transfer. The jet Reynolds number has been varied from 5000 to 18000, and the rotating Reynolds number has been varied from 5487 to 12803 for an aluminum disc of thickness 6.35mm and diameter 10.16 cm, over which square pins have been arranged in an inline fashion. Steady state temperature measurements have been taken using thermocouples embedded in the disc close to the target surface, and area average Nusselt number has been calculated. The effects of varying the height of the pin-fins, distance between nozzle and the disc surface and the inclination of the impinging jet with the axis of rotation have also been studied. The results have been compared with those for a smooth aluminum disc of equal dimensions and without any pin-fins. The average Nusselt number is significantly enhanced by the presence of pin fins. In the impingement dominant regime, where the effect of disc rotation is minimal for a smooth disc, the heat transfer increases with rotational speed in case of pin fins. The effect of inclination angle of the impinging jet is insignificant in the range explored in this paper (0° to 20°).


Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali J. Chamkha ◽  
Fatih Selimefendigil ◽  
Hakan F. Oztop

Effects of a rotating cone in 3D mixed convection of CNT-water nanofluid in a double lid-driven porous trapezoidal cavity is numerically studied considering magnetic field effects. The numerical simulations are performed by using the finite element method. Impacts of Richardson number (between 0.05 and 50), angular rotational velocity of the cone (between −300 and 300), Hartmann number (between 0 and 50), Darcy number (between 10 − 4 and 5 × 10 − 2 ), aspect ratio of the cone (between 0.25 and 2.5), horizontal location of the cone (between 0.35 H and 0.65 H) and solid particle volume fraction (between 0 and 0.004) on the convective heat transfer performance was studied. It was observed that the average Nusselt number rises with higher Richardson numbers for stationary cone while the effect is reverse for when the cone is rotating in clockwise direction at the highest supped. Higher discrepancies between the average Nusselt number is obtained for 2D cylinder and 3D cylinder configuration which is 28.5% at the highest rotational speed. Even though there are very slight variations between the average Nu values for 3D cylinder and 3D cone case, there are significant variations in the local variation of the average Nusselt number. Higher enhancements in the average Nusselt number are achieved with CNT particles even though the magnetic field reduced the convection and the value is 84.3% at the highest strength of magnetic field. Increasing the permeability resulted in higher local and average heat transfer rates for the 3D porous cavity. In this study, the aspect ratio of the cone was found to be an excellent tool for heat transfer enhancement while 95% enhancements in the average Nusselt number were obtained. The horizontal location of the cone was found to have slight effects on the Nusselt number variations.


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