Numerical Simulation of Oblique Air Jet Impingement on a Heated Flat Plate

Author(s):  
Abhishek B. Bhagwat ◽  
Arunkumar Sridharan

Jet impingement cooling has been studied extensively as this finds applications in the areas of reactor safety, electronic cooling, etc. Here, the convective heat transfer process between the air jet impingement on a uniformly heated inclined flat plate is studied numerically. In this numerical study, 3D simulations are carried out using commercial CFD code to investigate the effect of angle of inclination of plate, Reynolds number, and distance between the nozzle exit and the plate on the heat transfer characteristics. V2F model has been used to model turbulence for various nozzle–plate distance and Reynolds number. It can be concluded that V2F model predicts the Nusselt number variation on the plate satisfactorily. It is observed that point of maximum heat transfer is at the stagnation point in case of vertical jet impinging on a horizontal plate, while it shifts away from the point of impingement for the case of a vertical jet impinging on an inclined flat surface. The shift is toward the “compression side” or the “uphill side” of the air jet. The results are validated with experimental data from the literature. Detailed analysis of local heat transfer coefficients, velocity contours, temperature contours, and Nusselt number variations on the flat plate is presented.

Volume 1 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Mishra ◽  
D. Mishra

An experimental investigation of the impinging jet cooling from a heated flat plate has been carried out for several Reynolds numbers (Re) and nozzle to plate distances. The present results indicate that the maximum heat transfer occurs from the heated plate at stagnation point and decreases with radial distances for all cases. The maximum value of the stagnation as well as average Nusselt number is found to occur at separation distance, H/D = 6.0 for Re = 55000. An attempt is also made to study effects of nozzle exit configuration on the heat transfer using a sharp edged orifice for same set of Reynolds numbers and nozzle to plate distance. The stagnation Nusselt numbers of sharp orifice jets are found to be enhanced by around 16–21.4% in comparison to that of square edged orifice. However, the enhancement in the average Nusselt number of sharp orifice is found to be in the range of 7–18.9% as compared to the square edged orifice. The maximum enhancement of 18.9% in average Nu is achieved for Re = 55 000 at H/D = 6. Two separate correlations in terms of Nuo, Re, H/D for both square and sharp edged orifice are obtained which will be useful for designing impinging cooling system.


2011 ◽  
Vol 110-116 ◽  
pp. 1613-1618 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kapoor ◽  
P. Bera

A comprehensive numerical study on the natural convection in a hydrodynamically anisotropic as well as isotropic porous enclosure is presented, flow is induced by non uniform sinusoidal heating of the right wall of the enclosure. The principal directions of the permeability tensor has been taken oblique to the gravity vector. The spectral Element method has been adopted to solve numerically the governing differential equations by using the vorticity-stream-function approach. The results are presented in terms of stream function, temperature profile and Nusselt number. The result show that the maximum heat transfer takes place at y = 1.5 when N is odd.. Also, increasing media permeability, by changing K* = 1 to K* = 0.2, increases heat transfer rate at below and above right corner of the enclosure. Furthermore, for the all values of N, profiles of local Nusselt number (Nuy) in isotropic as well as anisotropic media are similar, but for even values of N differ slightly at N = 2.. In particular the present analysis shows that, different periodicity (N) of temperature boundary condition has the significant effect on the flow pattern and consequently on the local heat transfer phenomena.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2057 (1) ◽  
pp. 012026
Author(s):  
A V Barsukov ◽  
V V Terekhov ◽  
V I Terekhov

Abstract The results of numerical simulation of the separation flow in matrix channels by the RANS method are presented. The simulation is performed at the Reynolds number Re = 12600, determined by the mass-average velocity and the height of the channel. The distribution of the local Nusselt number is obtained for various Reynolds numbers in the range of 5÷15⋅103 and several rib angles. It is shown that the temperature distribution on the surface is highly nonuniform; in particular, the maximum heat transfer value is observed near the upper edge facets, in the vicinity of which the greatest velocity gradient is observed.


Author(s):  
Sunil Patil ◽  
Teddy Sedalor ◽  
Danesh Tafti ◽  
Srinath Ekkad ◽  
Yong Kim ◽  
...  

Modern dry low emissions (DLE) combustors are characterized by highly swirling and expanding flows that makes the convective heat load on the gas side difficult to predict and estimate. A coupled experimental–numerical study of swirling flow inside a DLE annular combustor model is used to determine the distribution of heat transfer on the liner walls. Three different Reynolds numbers are investigated in the range of 210,000–840,000 with a characteristic swirl number of 0.98. The maximum heat transfer coefficient enhancement ratio decreased from 6 to 3.6 as the flow Reynolds number increased from 210,000 to 840,000. This is attributed to a reduction in the normalized turbulent kinetic energy in the impinging shear layer, which is strongly dependent on the swirl number that remains constant at 0.98 for the Reynolds number range investigated. The location of peak heat transfer did not change with the increase in Reynolds number since the flow structures in the combustors did not change with Reynolds number. Results also showed that the heat transfer distributions in the annulus have slightly different characteristics for the concave and convex walls. A modified swirl number accounting for the step expansion ratio is defined to facilitate comparison between the heat transfer characteristics in the annular combustor with previous work in a can combustor. A higher modified swirl number in the annular combustor resulted in higher heat transfer augmentation and a slower decay with Reynolds number.


Author(s):  
Devaraj K

Abstract: The present computational study involves a flat plate subjected to combined effect of jet impingement and film cooling. A conjugate heat transfer model in conjunction with k-ω SST turbulence model is employed to study the turbulence effects. The effect of Reynolds number varying from 389 to 2140 on static temperature, Nusselt number and film cooling effectiveness has be discussed for the blowing ratios of 0.6, 0.8, 1.0. The variation in the size of vortices formed on the impinging surface with Reynolds number is studied. It has been observed that the local Nusselt number shows a rising trend with the increase in Reynolds number, while the static temperatures follow the downfall in its values. As a result, an enhancement in the effectiveness is observed, which is credited to the capabilities of combined impingement and film cooling. At Reynolds number of 972, the coolant jet is found to be attached to the surface, for this condition the heat transfer phenomena for blowing ratios of 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.6, 2.0, 2.4, 2.6 are studied to understand the flow distribution on the plate surface. Keywords: Jet impingement, film cooling, effectiveness, conjugate heat transfer


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 2205-2215
Author(s):  
Ehsan Sourtiji ◽  
Mofid Gorji-Bandpy

A numerical study of mixed convection flow and heat transfer inside a square cavity with inlet and outlet ports is performed. The position of the inlet port is fixed but the location of the outlet port is varied along the four walls of the cavity to investigate the best position corresponding to maximum heat transfer rate and minimum pressure drop in the cavity. It is seen that the overall Nusselt number and pressure drop coefficient vary drastically depending on the Reynolds and Richardson numbers and the position of the outlet port. As the Richardson number increases, the overall Nusselt number generally rises for all cases investigated. It is deduced that placing the outlet port on the right side of the top wall is the best position that leads to the greatest overall Nusselt number and lower pressure drop coefficient. Finally, the effects of nanoparticles on heat transfer are investigated for the best position of the outlet port. It is found that an enhancement of heat transfer and pressure drop is seen in the presence of nanoparticles and augments with solid volume fraction of the nanofluid. It is also observed that the effects of nanoparticles on heat transfer at low Richardson numbers is more than that of high Richardson numbers. <br><br><font color="red"><b> This article has been retracted. Link to the retraction <u><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/TSCI190625278E">10.2298/TSCI190625278E</a><u></b></font>


2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Recep Ekiciler ◽  
Muhammet Samet Ali Çetinkaya ◽  
Kamil Arslan

In this study, air jet impingement on flat, triangular-corrugated, and sinusoidal-corrugated surfaces was numerically investigated. Bottom surface was subjected to constant surface temperature. Air was the working fluid. The air exited from a rectangular shaped slot and impinged on the bottom surface. The Reynolds number was changed between 125 and 500. The continuity, momentum, and energy equations were solved using the finite volume method. The effect of the shape of bottom surface on heat and flow characteristics was investigated in detail. Average and local Nusselt number were calculated for each case. It was found out that Nusselt number increases by increasing the Reynolds number. The optimum conditions were established to get much more enhancement in terms of performance evaluation criterion (PEC). It was revealed that the shape of the cooling surface (bottom wall) influences the heat transfer substantially.


2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 286-299
Author(s):  
Behzad Ghobadi ◽  
Farshad Kowsary ◽  
Farzad Veysi

Abstract In this article, the numerical analysis has been carried out to optimize heat transfer and pressure drop in the horizontal channel in the presence of a rectangular baffle and constant temperature in two-dimension. For this aim, the governing differential equation has been solved by computational fluid dynamics software. The Reynolds numbers are in the range of 2,000 < Re < 10,000 and the working fluid is water. While the periodic boundary condition has been applied at the inlet, outlet, and the channel wall, axisymmetric boundary condition has been used for channel axis. For modeling and optimizing the turbulence, k–ω SST model and genetic algorithm have been applied, respectively. The results illustrate that adding a rectangular baffle to the channel enhances heat transfer and pressure drop. Hence, the heat transfer performance factor along with maximum heat transfer and minimum pressure drop has been investigated and the effective geometrical parameters have been introduced. As can be seen, there is an inverse relationship between baffle step and both heat transfer and pressure drop so that for p/d equal to 0.5, 1, and 1.25, the percentage of increase in Nusselt number is 141, 124, and 120% comparing to a simple channel and the increase in friction factor is 5.5, 5, and 4.25 times, respectively. The results of modeling confirm the increase in heat transfer performance and friction factor in the baffle with more height. For instance, when the Reynolds number and height are 5,000 and 3 mm, the Nusselt number and friction factor have been increased by 35% and 2.5 times, respectively. However, for baffle with 4 mm height, the increase in the Nusselt number and friction factor is 68% and 5.57 times, respectively. It is also demonstrated that by increasing Reynolds number, the maximum heat transfer performance has been decreased which is proportional to the increase in p/d and h/d. Moreover, the maximum heat transfer performance in 2,000 Reynolds number is 1.5 proportional to p/d of 0.61 and h/d of 0.36, while for 10,000 Reynolds number, its value is 1.19 in high p/d of 0.93 and h/d of 0.15. The approaches of the present study can be used for optimizing heat transfer performance where geometrical dimensions are not accessible or the rectangular baffle has been applied for heat transfer enhancement.


2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (6) ◽  
pp. 1064-1071
Author(s):  
Bassam A/K Abu-Hijleh

The problem of laminar mixed convection from an isothermal cylinder with low conductivity baffles in cross flow was solved numerically. The average Nusselt number was calculated at different combinations of number of baffles, baffle height, Reynolds number, and buoyancy parameter. The reduction in the Nusselt number is as much as 75 percent. When using a small number of baffles at low values of buoyancy parameter, an odd number of baffles reduced the Nusselt number more than an even number of baffles, especially at high values of Reynolds number. This is not the case at high values of buoyancy parameter. There is an optimal baffle height, Reynolds number dependent, for maximum heat transfer reduction beyond which an increase in baffle height does not result in further decrease in heat transfer.


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