Experimental Investigation of Crossflow Diverters in Jet Impingement Cooling

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

Abstract Jet impingement is a cooling technique commonly employed in combustor liner cooling and high-pressure gas turbine blades. However, jets from upstream impingement holes reduce the effectiveness of downstream jets due to jet deflection in the direction of crossflow. In order to avoid this phenomenon and provide an enhanced cooling on the target surface, we have attempted to come up with a novel design called “crossflow diverters”. Crossflow diverters are U-shaped ribs that are placed between jets in the crossflow direction (under maximum crossflow condition). In this study, the baseline case is jet impingement onto a smooth surface with 10 rows of jet impingement holes, jet-to-jet spacing of X/D = Y/D = 6 and jet-to-target spacing of Z/D = 2. Crossflow diverters with thickness ‘t’ of 1.5875 mm, height ‘h’ of 2D placed in the streamwise direction at a distance of X = 2D from center of the jet have been investigated experimentally. Transient liquid crystal thermography technique has been used to obtain detailed measurement of heat transfer coefficient for four jet diameter based Reynolds numbers of 3500, 5000, 7500, 12000. 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. However, this comes at the expense of increase in pumping power. Pressure drop for the enhanced geometry is 1–1.5 times the pressure drop for baseline impingement case. At a constant pumping power, crossflow diverters produce 9–15% enhancement in heat transfer coefficient as compared to baseline smooth case.

Author(s):  
Prashant Singh ◽  
Mingyang Zhang ◽  
Shoaib Ahmed ◽  
Srinath V. Ekkad

With recent advancements in the field of additive manufacturing, the design domain for development of complicated cooling configurations has significantly expanded. The motivation of the present study is to develop high-performance impingement cooling designs catered towards application’s requiring high rates of heat removal, e.g. gas turbine blade leading edge and double-wall cooling, air-cooled electronic devices etc. Jet impingement is a popular cooling technique which results in high convective heat rates. In the present study, jet impingement is combined with strategic roughening of the target surface, such that a combined effect of impingement-based and curved-surface area based enhancement in heat transfer coefficient could be achieved. Traditionally, for surface roughening, cylindrical and cubic elements are used. We have demonstrated, through our steady-state experiments, a novel “concentric” shaped roughness element design which has resulted in about 20–60% higher effectiveness compared to smooth target jet impingement, for jet-to-target spacing of one jet diameter. The cubic shaped roughened target yielded about 20% to 40% enhancement in effectiveness, and the cylindrical shaped roughened target yielded 10% to 30% enhancement. Through the plenum pressure measurements, it was found that the addition of the micro-roughness elements does not result in a discernable increment in pressure losses, compared to the standard impingement on the smooth target surface. Hence, the demonstrated configuration with the highest heat transfer coefficient also resulted in the highest thermal hydraulic performance.


Author(s):  
K. M. C. Seakher ◽  
L. S. S. Prakash Kumar ◽  
K. S. R. Kali Prasad ◽  
K. H. Manasa ◽  
A. Siva Kumar

A finned channel has a higher heat transfer coefficient compared to a smooth channel and the increase in this fin height enhances the heat transfer. But this heat transfer enhancement is accompanied by an increase in pressure drop for a series of fins. This requires an increase in pumping power requirement, indicating that there exists an optimum design or length of the fin at which the heat dissipation is maximum. The objective of this paper is to observe the variation of heat transfer with varying sizes of fins. The effect of fin dimensions on heat transfer can be clearly seen in its performance, which is discussed in the paper. The results are obtained by analytical analysis, and some illustrations are dealt with in the paper, which clearly determine the importance of this factor of optimal fin length.


2013 ◽  
Vol 832 ◽  
pp. 254-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.M. Elias ◽  
Saidur Rahman ◽  
N.A. Rahim ◽  
M.R. Sohel ◽  
I.M. Mahbubul

Plate heat exchanger with chevron angle has higher heat transfer area than flat type and increases the level of turbulent due to its corrugated channel. In this study, both water and nanofluid were used to determine the heat transfer coefficient and rate, pumping power, and pressure drop. A commercial plate heat exchanger with two different symmetric (300/300,600/600) and one mixed (300/600) chevron angle plates were considered for analysis. Al2O3and SiO2nanoparticles with 0-1 vol. % concentration were used with water. From the analysis it was found that, convective heat transfer coefficient, heat transfer rate, pressure drop and pumping power increases with the increase of volume concentration. Moreover, the above parameters were found to be higher for 600/600chevron angle plates. A correlation of Nusselt number as a function of Reynolds number and Prandtl number for different chevron angles needs to be obtained based on experimental and analytical work. Nomenclature


Author(s):  
Rabijit Dutta ◽  
Anupam Dewan ◽  
Balaji Srinivasan

We present a numerical investigation of hydrodynamic and heat transfer behaviors for Al2O3–water nanofluids for laminar and turbulent confined slot jets impingement heat transfer at nanoparticle volume fractions of 3% and 6%. A comparison of the nanofluid with the base fluid has been performed for the same Reynolds number and same jet inlet velocity. A single-phase fluid approach was used to model the nanofluid. Further, the thermo-physical properties of nanofluid were calculated using a recent approach. For the same value of Reynolds number, maximum increase in the average heat transfer coefficient at the impingement plate was found to be approximately 27% and 22% for laminar and turbulent slot impingements, respectively, for 6% volume fraction of nanofluid as compared to that of water. However, the pumping power curve showed a steep increase with the volume fraction with nearly five times increase in the pumping power observed for 6% volume fraction nanofluid. Further, the energy-based performance was assessed with the help of the performance evaluation criterion (PEC). PEC values indicate that nanofluids do not necessarily represent the most efficient coolants for this type of application. Moreover, at the same jet inlet velocity, a reduction in the heat transfer coefficient of 7% and 20% was observed for nanofluid as compared to base fluid for laminar and turbulent flows, respectively.


Author(s):  
M. E. Taslim ◽  
Y. Pan ◽  
K. Bakhtari

Compatible with the external contour of the turbine airfoils at their leading edge, the leading-edge cooling cavities have a complex cross-sectional shape. To enhance the heat transfer coefficient on the leading-edge wall of these cavities, the cooling flow in some designs enters the leading-edge cavity from the adjacent cavity through a series of crossover holes on the partition wall between the two cavities. The crossover jets then impinge on the concave leading-edge wall and exit through the showerhead film holes, gill film holes on the pressure and suction sides, and, in some cases, form a crossflow in the leading-edge cavity and move toward the airfoil tip. The main objective of this investigation was to study the effects that racetrack crossover jets, in the presence of film holes on the target surface, have on the impingement heat transfer coefficient. Available data in open literature are mostly for impingement on a flat smooth surface with no representation of the film holes. This investigation covered new features in airfoil leading-edge cooling concept such as impingement with racetrack shaped holes on a roughened target surface with a row of holes representing the leading-edge showerhead film holes. Results of the circular crossover jets impinging on these leading-edge surface geometries with and without showerhead holes were reported by these authors previously. In this paper, however, the experimental results are presented for the impingement of racetrack-shaped crossover jets on a concave surface with showerhead film holes. The investigated target surface geometries were : (1) a smooth wall, (2) a wall roughened with big conical bumps, (3) a wall roughened with smaller conical bumps and (4) a wall roughened with tapered radial ribs. The tests were run for a range of flow arrangements and jet Reynolds numbers and the results were compared with those of round crossover jets. The major conclusions of this study are: (a) for a given jet Reynolds number, the racetrack crossover jets produce a higher impingement heat transfer coefficient than the circular jets, (b) the overall heat transfer performance of 0° racetrack crossover jets is superior to that of 45° racetrack crossover jets and (c) there is a heat transfer enhancement benefit in roughening the target surface. With the presence of showerhead holes, the enhancement is due to both the impingement heat transfer coefficient and the heat transfer area increase.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfaryjat ◽  
Miron ◽  
Pop ◽  
Apostol ◽  
Stefanescu ◽  
...  

A modern computer generates a great amount of heat while working. In order to secure appropriate working conditions by extracting the heat, a specific mechanism should be used. This research paper presents the effect of nanofluids on the microchannel heat sink performance of computer cooling systems experimentally. CeO2, Al2O3 and ZrO2 nanoparticles suspended in 20% ethylene glycol and 80% distilled water are used as working fluids in the experiment. The concentration of the nanoparticles ranges from 0.5% to 2%, mass flow rate ranges from 0.028 kg/s to 0.084 kg/s, and the ambient temperature ranges from 25 °C to 40 °C. Regarding the thermal component, parameters such as thermophysical properties of the nanofluids and base fluids, central processing unit (CPU) temperature, heat transfer coefficient, pressure drop, and pumping power have been experimentally investigated. The results show that CeO2-EG/DW, at a concentration of 2% and a mass flow rate of 0.084 kg/s, has with 8% a lower temperature than the other nanofluids and with 29% a higher heat transfer coefficient compared with the base fluid. The Al2O3-EG/DW shows the lowest pressure drop and pumping power, while the CeO2-EG/DW and ZrO2-EG/DW show the highest. However, a slight increase of pumping power and pressure drop can be accepted, considering the high improvement that the nanofluid brings in computer cooling performance compared to the base fluid.


Author(s):  
David Boyea ◽  
Amir Shooshtari ◽  
Serguei V. Dessiatoun ◽  
Michael M. Ohadi

High performance condensers are essential components in energy conversion, electronics cooling and process systems. Increased capacity and functionality with less and less available space has been a main driving force for development of next generation of condensers in energy systems. Our previous work in this area has demonstrated that manifold-microgroove heat exchangers operating in single-phase or two-phase modes offer substantially higher heat transfer performance with a greatly reduced pumping power when compared to state-of-art microchannel heat exchangers. The goal is to enhance heat transfer while minimizing the pumping power, volume and weight. A compact lightweight manifold microgroove condenser, with 60 × 600 micron microgrooves and cooling capacity of 4kW, was fabricated, assembled and tested using different manifolds. Experiments using R236fa and R134a as a working fluids were performed measuring inlet and outlet temperatures, flow rates and pressure drops for the refrigerant and water side. Overall heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop across condenser were determined and refrigerant side heat transfer coefficient were calculated based on water side heat transfer coefficient. Experimental results indicate significant effect of manifold geometry on condenser performances. Refrigerant side heat transfer coefficient of 60 kW/m2K with pressure drop of just 7 kPa has been demonstrated using R-134-a.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hemmat Esfe ◽  
Somchai Wongwises ◽  
Saeed Esfandeh ◽  
Ali Alirezaie

Background: Because of nanofluids applications in improvement of heat transfer rate in heating and cooling systems, many researchers have conducted various experiments to investigate nanofluid's characteristics more accurate. Thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, and heat transfer are examples of these characteristics. Method: This paper presents a modeling and validation method of heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop of functionalized aqueous COOH MWCNT nanofluids by artificial neural network and proposing a new correlation. In the current experiment, the ANN input data has included the volume fraction and the Reynolds number and heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop considered as ANN outputs. Results: Comparing modeling results with proposed correlation proves that the empirical correlation is not able to accurately predict the experimental output results, and this is performed with a lot more accuracy by the neural network. The regression coefficient of neural network outputs was equal to 99.94% and 99.84%, respectively, for the data of relative heat transfer coefficient and relative pressure drop. The regression coefficient for the provided equation was also equal to 97.02% and 77.90%, respectively, for these two parameters, which indicates this equation operates much less precisely than the neural network. Conclusion: So, relative heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop of nanofluids can also be modeled and estimated by the neural network, in addition to the modeling of nanofluid’s thermal conductivity and viscosity executed by different scholars via neural networks.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Swanand Gaikwad ◽  
Ashish Parmar

AbstractHeat exchangers possess a significant role in energy transmission and energy generation in most industries. In this work, a three-dimensional simulation has been carried out of a shell and tube heat exchanger (STHX) consisting of segmental baffles. The investigation involves using the commercial code of ANSYS CFX, which incorporates the modeling, meshing, and usage of the Finite Element Method to yield numerical results. Much work is available in the literature regarding the effect of baffle cut and baffle spacing as two different entities, but some uncertainty pertains when we discuss the combination of these two parameters. This study aims to find an appropriate mix of baffle cut and baffle spacing for the efficient functioning of a shell and tube heat exchanger. Two parameters are tested: the baffle cuts at 30, 35, 40% of the shell-inside diameter, and the baffle spacing’s to fit 6,8,10 baffles within the heat exchanger. The numerical results showed the role of the studied parameters on the shell side heat transfer coefficient and the pressure drop in the shell and tube heat exchanger. The investigation shows an increase in the shell side heat transfer coefficient of 13.13% when going from 6 to 8 baffle configuration and a 23.10% acclivity for the change of six baffles to 10, for a specific baffle cut. Evidence also shows a rise in the pressure drop with an increase in the baffle spacing from the ranges of 44–46.79%, which can be controlled by managing the baffle cut provided.


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