Effects of Wake Passing on Stagnation Region Heat Transfer

1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. O’Brien

An experimental study is described in which both time-averaged and time-resolved effects of wake passing were measured in a cylinder stagnation region. The experiments were carried out in an annular-flow wind tunnel, which was fitted with a spoked-wheel wake generator. The cylindrical spokes produce wakes that simulate those shed from a turbine inlet guide vane. Time-averaged heat transfer results indicate an asymmetric distribution of heat transfer coefficient about the stagnation line, with higher heat transfer coefficients on the windward side (with respect to the bar-passing direction), which corresponds to the suction side of a turbine blade. This asymmetry is also reflected in the time-resolved heat transfer results, which were obtained using a test cylinder instrumented with platinum thin-film gages. Unsteady heat flux records reveal very large positive excursions (as much as a factor of three) in instantaneous heat flux during wake passing on the windward side of the cylinder and much smaller effects on the leeward side. Hot-film records in the cylinder stagnation region were also obtained by operating the thin-film gages in the constant-temperature mode. Spectra of these hot-film records indicate that vortex shedding is a major contributor to the unsteady buffeting of the test-cylinder boundary layer at circumferential stations located at both + 60 deg and − 60 deg from the stagnation line, but makes a very small contribution on the stagnation line itself.

1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Dunn ◽  
W. K. George ◽  
W. J. Rae ◽  
S. H. Woodward ◽  
J. C. Moller ◽  
...  

This paper presents a detailed description of an analysis technique and an application of this technique to obtain time-resolved heat flux for the blade of a Garrett TFE 731-2 hp full-stage rotating turbine. A shock tube is used as a short-duration source of heated air and platinum thin-film gages are used to obtain the heat-flux measurements. To obtain the heat-flux values from the thin-film gage temperature histories, a finite-difference procedure has been used to solve the heat equation, with variable thermal properties. The data acquisition and the data analysis procedures are described in detail and then their application is illustrated for three midspan locations on the blade. The selected locations are the geometric stagnation point, 32.7 percent wetted distance on the suction surface, and 85.5 percent wetted distance on the suction surface. For these measurements, the turbine was operating at the design flow function and very near 100 percent corrected speed. The vane–blade axial spacing was consistent with the engine operating configuration. The results demonstrate that the magnitude of the heat-flux fluctuation resulting from the vane–blade interaction is large by comparison with the time-averaged heat flux at all locations investigated. The magnitude of the fluctuation is greatest in the stagnation region and decreases with increasing wetted distance along the surface. A Fourier analysis by FFT of a portion of the heat-flux record illustrates that the dominant frequencies occur at the wake-cutting frequency and its harmonics.


Author(s):  
Roger W. Moss ◽  
Roger W. Ainsworth ◽  
Tom Garside

Measurements of turbine blade surface heat transfer in a transient rotor facility are compared with predictions and equivalent cascade data. The rotating measurements involved both forwards and reverse rotation (wake free) experiments. The use of thin-film gauges in the Oxford Rotor Facility provides both time-mean heat transfer levels and the unsteady time history. The time-mean level is not significantly affected by turbulence in the wake; this contrasts with the cascade response to freestream turbulence and simulated wake passing. Heat transfer predictions show the extent to which such phenomena are successfully modelled by a time-steady code. The accurate prediction of transition is seen to be crucial if useful predictions are to be obtained.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Smith ◽  
J. V. Bubb ◽  
O. Popp ◽  
T. E. Diller ◽  
Stephen J. Hevey

Abstract A transient, in-situ method was examined for calibrating thin-film heat flux gauges using experimental data generated from both convection and radiation tests. Also, a comparison is made between this transient method and the standard radiation substitution calibration technique. Six Vatell Corporation HFM-7 type heat flux gauges were mounted on the surface of a 2-D, first-stage turbine rotor blade. These gauges were subjected to radiation from a heat lamp and in a separate experiment to a convective heat flux generated by flow in a transonic cascade wind tunnel. A second set of convective tests were performed using jets of cooled air impinging on the surface of the gauges. Direct measurements were simultaneously taken of both the time-resolved heat flux and surface temperature on the blade. The heat flux input was used to predict a surface temperature response using a one-dimensional, semi-infinite conduction model into a substrate with known thermal properties. The sensitivities of the gauges were determined by correlating the semi-infinite predicted temperature response to the measured temperature response. A finite-difference code was used to model the penetration of the heat flux into the substrate in order to estimate the time for which the semi-infinite assumption was valid. The results from these tests showed that the gauges accurately record both the convection and radiation modes of heat transfer. The radiation and convection tests yielded gauge sensitivities which agreed to within ±11%.


Author(s):  
Muhsincan Sesen ◽  
Ali Kosar ◽  
Ebru Demir ◽  
Evrim Kurtoglu ◽  
Nazli Kaplan ◽  
...  

In this paper, the results of a series of heat transfer experiments conducted on a compact electronics cooling device based on single phase jet impingement techniques are reported. Deionized-water is propelled into four microchannels of inner diameter 685 μm which are used as nozzles and located at a nozzle to surface distance of 2.5mm. The generated jet impingement is targeted through these channels towards the surface of a nanostructured plate. This plate of size 20mmx20mm consisted of ∼600 nm long copper nanorod arrays with an average nanorod diameter of ∼150 nm, which were integrated on top of a silicon wafer substrate coated with a copper thin film layer (i.e. Cu-nanorod/Cu-film/Silicon-wafer). Heat removal characteristics induced through jet impingement are investigated using the nanostructured plate and compared to results obtained from a flat plate of copper thin film coated on silicon wafer surface. Enhancement in heat transfer up to 15% using the nanostructured plate has been reported in this paper. Heat generated by small scale electronic devices is simulated using a thin film heater placed on an aluminum base. Surface temperatures are recorded by a data acquisition system with the thermocouples integrated on the surface at various locations. Constant heat flux provided by the film heater is delivered to the nanostructured plate placed on top of the base. Volumetric flow rate and heat flux values were varied in order to better characterize the potential enhancement in heat transfer by nanostructured surfaces.


Author(s):  
Solomon Adera ◽  
Rishi Raj ◽  
Evelyn N. Wang

Thermal management is increasingly becoming a bottleneck for a variety of high power density applications such as integrated circuits, solar cells, microprocessors, and energy conversion devices. The performance and reliability of these devices are usually limited by the rate at which heat can be removed from the device footprint, which averages well above 100 W/cm2 (locally this heat flux can exceed 1000 W/cm2). State-of-the-art air cooling strategies which utilize the sensible heat are insufficient at these large heat fluxes. As a result, novel thermal management solutions such as via thin-film evaporation that utilize the latent heat of vaporization of a fluid are needed. The high latent heat of vaporization associated with typical liquid-vapor phase change phenomena allows significant heat transfer with small temperature rise. In this work, we demonstrate a promising thermal management approach where square arrays of cylindrical micropillar arrays are used for thin-film evaporation. The microstructures control the liquid film thickness and the associated thermal resistance in addition to maintaining a continuous liquid supply via the capillary pumping mechanism. When the capillary-induced liquid supply mechanism cannot deliver sufficient liquid for phase change heat transfer, the critical heat flux is reached and dryout occurs. This capillary limitation on thin-film evaporation was experimentally investigated by fabricating well-defined silicon micropillar arrays using standard contact photolithography and deep reactive ion etching. A thin film resistive heater and thermal sensors were integrated on the back side of the test sample using e-beam evaporation and acetone lift-off. The experiments were carried out in a controlled environmental chamber maintained at the water saturation pressure of ≈3.5 kPa and ≈25 °C. We demonstrated significantly higher heat dissipation capability in excess of 100 W/cm2. These preliminary results suggest the potential of thin-film evaporation from microstructured surfaces for advanced thermal management applications.


1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Magari ◽  
L. E. LaGraff

An experimental investigation of wake-induced unsteady heat transfer in the stagnation region of a cylinder was conducted. The objective of the study was to create a quasi-steady representation of the stator/rotor interaction in a gas turbine using two stationary cylinders in crossflow. In this simulation, a larger cylinder, representing the leading-edge region of a rotor blade, was immersed in the wake of a smaller cylinder, representing the trailing-edge region of a stator vane. Time-averaged and time-resolved heat transfer results were obtained over a wide range of Reynolds number at two Mach numbers: one incompressible and one transonic. The tests were conducted at Reynolds numbers, Mach numbers, and gas-to-wall temperature ratios characteristic of turbine engine conditions in an isentropic compression-heated transient wind tunnel (LICH tube). The augmentation of the heat transfer in the stagnation region due to wake unsteadiness was documented by comparison with isolated cylinder tests. It was found that the time-averaged heat transfer rate at the stagnation line, expressed in terms of the Frossling number (Nu/Re), reached a maximum independent of the Reynolds number. The power spectra and cross-correlation of the heat transfer signals in the stagnation region revealed the importance of large vortical structures shed from the upstream wake generator. These structures caused large positive and negative excursions about the mean heat transfer rate in the stagnation region.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 899-897
Author(s):  
Xiaohong Gui ◽  
Xiange Song ◽  
Baisheng Nie

The effects of contact angle and superheat on thin-film thickness and heat flux distribution occurring in a rectangle microgroove are numerically simulated. Accordingly, physical, and mathematical models are built in detail. Numerical results indicate that meniscus radius and thin-film thickness increase with the improvement of contact angle. The heat flux distribution in the thin-film region increases non-linearly as the contact angle decreases. The total heat transfer through the thin-film region increases with the improvement of superheat, and decreases as the contact angle increases. When the contact angle is equal to zero, the heat transfer in the thin-film region accounts for more than 80% of the total heat transfer. Intensive evaporation in the thin-film region plays a key role in heat transfer for the rectangle capillary microgroove. The liquid with higher wetting performance is more capable of playing the advantages of higher intensity heat transfer in thin- film region. The current investigation will result in a better understanding of thin- -film evaporation and its effect on the effective thermal conductivity in the rectangle microgroove.


2011 ◽  
Vol 669 ◽  
pp. 64-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAN G. WISSINK ◽  
WOLFGANG RODI

The effect of an incoming wake on the flow around and heat transfer from the stagnation region of a circular cylinder was studied using direct numerical simulations (DNSs). Four simulations were carried out at a Reynolds number (based on free-stream velocity and cylinder diameterD) ofReD= 13200: one two-dimensional (baseline) simulation and three three-dimensional simulations. The three-dimensional simulations comprised a baseline simulation with a uniform incoming velocity field, a simulation in which realistic wake data – generated in a separate precursor DNS – were introduced at the inflow plane and, finally, a simulation in which the turbulent fluctuations were removed from the incoming wake in order to study the effect of the mean velocity deficit on the heat transfer in the stagnation region. In the simulation with realistic wake data, the incoming wake still exhibited the characteristic meandering behaviour of a near-wake. When approaching the regions immediately above and below the stagnation line of the cylinder, the vortical structures from the wake were found to be significantly stretched by the strongly accelerating wall-parallel (circumferential) flow into elongated vortex tubes that became increasingly aligned with the direction of flow. As the elongated streamwise vortical structures impinge on the stagnation region, on one side they transport cool fluid towards the heated cylinder, while on the other side hot fluid is transported away from the cylinder towards the free stream, thereby increasing the heat transfer. The DNS results are compared with various semi-empirical correlations for predicting the augmentation of heat transfer due to free-stream turbulence.


1981 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Cook ◽  
C. Y. Tung ◽  
P. C. Wayner

A scanning microphotometer was used to measure in situ the profile of an evaporating decane meniscus in the contact line region on a smooth inclined silicon substrate as a function of the evaporative heat flux. The use of this new experimental design to determine the effect of heat flux on the profile in the contact line region is discussed. The results support the hypothesis that fluid flow in the contact line region of an evaporating thin film results from a change in the thin film thickness profile.


Author(s):  
Tao Yang ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Hui-Ren Zhu ◽  
Xing-Ming Wang

Abstract When the aircraft works in an environment containing supercooled water droplets, it is easy to cause the engine inlet nose cone on the windward side to freeze, which not only affects the performance of the engine, but also leads to flight accidents. Therefore, it is necessary to research the anti-icing technology of aero-engine nose cone components. At present, the air intake cone of the aircraft mainly forms a thermal anti-icing system by means of hot film anti-icing and heating impingement anti-icing. In this paper, the effects of blowing ratio, film hole pitch, hole shape and film hole arrangement method on film heating effectiveness and heat transfer characteristics are studied by numerical simulation methods for the hot film anti-icing system of the nose cone. The results show that with the increase of the blowing ratio, the film heating effectiveness in the downstream area quickly decreases first and then increases, and the range of change aggrandizes. Under the given condition, as the pitch between the film holes decreases, the area covered by the film extends, and the heating effectiveness improves significantly. In the case of high blowing ratio, the advantage of film heating effectiveness of waist-shaped film hole is more apparent. The laterally-averaged film heating effectiveness of the staggered film holes is much higher than that of the aligned film holes. For the characteristics of film heat transfer, the hole pitch and hole shape has little effect on the heat transfer characteristics at low blowing ratio. In the case of high blowing ratio, the heat transfer effect will be greatly weakened when the hole pitch is increased, moreover the heat transfer efficiency of the waist-shaped hole is better. In the region near the exit of the secondary row film hole, the heat transfer characteristics of the staggered structure is stronger than that in the aligned structure. In addition, it is found that the high heat transfer region for staggered arrangement shows W–shaped.


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