scholarly journals Heat Transfer Characteristics of Swirling Impinging Jets

Author(s):  
Karl J. Brown ◽  
Darina B. Murray ◽  
Tim Persoons ◽  
Tadhg S. O’Donovan

Impinging jets are used in a wide number of industrial cooling applications due to their high heat and mass transfer abilities. The current research is concerned with the effect of swirl on the heat transfer characteristics of jet impingement cooling. Two inserts were designed order to generate swirling flow. These two designs, “Swirl Insert A” and “Swirl Insert B”, were tested at various Reynolds numbers, between 8000 and 16000 inclusive, and at H/D = 0.5 and 1. The jet was directed downwards onto a 25μm thick stainless steel foil which was ohmically heated. Images were recorded using a thermal imaging camera focused on the underside of the foil. These images were then analysed using Matlab and the Nusselt number profile was obtained. It was found that, while both swirl inserts establish an improvement in the heat transfer by comparison to that of a jet with no swirl, the “Swirl Insert B” design performed better that the “Swirl Insert A” design for high Reynolds number at H/D = 0.5 and consistently for H/D = 1. It was also discovered that, while both the “No Insert” and “Swirl Insert B” results did not change dramatically with an alteration in H/D, “Swirl Insert A” decreased by ∼10%.

Author(s):  
Ashutosh Kumar Yadav ◽  
Parantak Sharma ◽  
Avadhesh Kumar Sharma ◽  
Mayank Modak ◽  
Vishal Nirgude ◽  
...  

Impinging jet cooling technique has been widely used extensively in various industrial processes, namely, cooling and drying of films and papers, processing of metals and glasses, cooling of gas turbine blades and most recently cooling of various components of electronic devices. Due to high heat removal rate the jet impingement cooling of the hot surfaces is being used in nuclear industries. During the loss of coolant accidents (LOCA) in nuclear power plant, an emergency core cooling system (ECCS) cool the cluster of clad tubes using consisting of fuel rods. Controlled cooling, as an important procedure of thermal-mechanical control processing technology, is helpful to improve the microstructure and mechanical properties of steel. In industries for heat transfer efficiency and homogeneous cooling performance which usually requires a jet impingement with improved heat transfer capacity and controllability. It provides better cooling in comparison to air. Rapid quenching by water jet, sometimes, may lead to formation of cracks and poor ductility to the quenched surface. Spray and mist jet impingement offers an alternative method to uncontrolled rapid cooling, particularly in steel and electronics industries. Mist jet impingement cooling of downward facing hot surface has not been extensively studied in the literature. The present experimental study analyzes the heat transfer characteristics a 0.15mm thick hot horizontal stainless steel (SS-304) foil using Internal mixing full cone (spray angle 20 deg) mist nozzle from the bottom side. Experiments have been performed for the varied range of water pressure (0.7–4.0 bar) and air pressure (0.4–5.8 bar). The effect of water and air inlet pressures, on the surface heat flux has been examined in this study. The maximum surface heat flux is achieved at stagnation point and is not affected by the change in nozzle to plate distance, Air and Water flow rates.


2011 ◽  
Vol 148-149 ◽  
pp. 680-683
Author(s):  
Run Peng Sun ◽  
Wei Bing Zhu ◽  
Hong Chen ◽  
Chang Jiang Chen

Three-dimensional numerical study is conducted to investigate the heat transfer characteristics for the flow impingement cooling in the narrow passage based on cooling technology of turbine blade.The effects of the jet Reynolds number, impingement distance and initial cross-flow on heat transfer characteristic are investigated.Results show that when other parameters remain unchanged local heat transfer coefficient increases with increase of jet Reynolds number;overall heat transfer effect is reduced by initial cross-flow;there is an optimal distance to the best effect of heat transfer.


2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabhakar Subrahmanyam ◽  
B. K. Gnanavel

Abstract Detailed heat transfer distributions of multiple microscaled tapered jets orthogonally impinging on the surface of a high-power density silicon wall is presented. The tapered jets issued from two different impingement setup are studied—(a) single circular nozzle and (b) dual circular nozzles. Jets are issued from the inlet(s) at four different Reynolds numbers {Re = 8000, 12,000, 16,000, 20,000}. The spacing between the tapered nozzle jets and the bare die silicon wall (z/d) is adjusted to be 4, 8, 12, and 16 jet nozzle diameters away from impinging influence. The impact of varying the nozzle to the silicon wall (z/d) standoff spacing up to 16 nozzle jet diameters and its effects on flow fields on the surface of the silicon, specifically the entrainment pattern on the silicon surface, is presented. Heat transfer characteristics of impinging jets on the hot silicon wall is investigated by means of large eddy simulations (LES) at a Reynolds of 20,000 on each of the four z/d spacing and compared against its equivalent Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) cases. Highest heat transfer coefficients are obtained for the dual inlet system. A demarcation boundary region connecting all the microvortices between impinging jets is prominently visible at smaller z/d spacing—the region where the target silicon wall is within the sphere of influence of the potential core of the jet. This research focuses on the underlying physics of multiple tapered nozzles jet impingement issued from single and dual nozzles and its impact on turbulence, heat transfer distributions, entrainment, and other pertinent flow-field characteristics.


Author(s):  
Tarek Abdel-Salam

In this study, flow and heat transfer characteristics of two-dimensional impinging jets are investigated numerically. Flow geometries under consideration are single and multiple impinging jets issued from a plane wall. Both confined and unconfined configurations are simulated. Effects of Reynolds number and the distance between the jets are investigated. Results are obtained with a finite volume CFD code. Structured grids are used in all cases of the present study. Turbulence is treated with a two equation k-ε model. Different jet velocities have been examined corresponding to Reynolds numbers of 5,000 to 20,000. Results show that the Reynolds number has significant effect on the heat transfer rate and has no effect on the location of the maximum Nusselt number.


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