Cooling of Heated Solid Cylinder Supported on Bedded and Embedded Substrates by Impinging Air Jet
Abstract This study seeks to develop an experimental and modeling framework for characterizing cooling of a hot body that is supported on a substrate and cooled by a combination of jet impingement convection, radiation, and conduction into the substrate. While the radiation cooling is easily characterized, there are challenges in accurately specifying the convective and conductive cooling rates. The literature on jet impingement cooling is extensive, but there are significant differences in results using different correlations for nominally similar conditions. To characterize the cooling process for the multi-mode phenomenon, the convective heat transfer coefficient was measured for objects with diameter less than the jet diameter using the naphthalene sublimation analogy. Two different substrate configurations were tested. In one, the object completely rests on top of the substrate (bedded), while in the other, the object is partially subsumed within the substrate (embedded). After modeling the radiative and convective cooling components, a conductive resistance was inferred. The multi-mode model could then predict the cooling rate curve for a range of experimental conditions. Additionally, using the model, the relative contributions from the different modes of heat transfer could be determined. For the embedded configuration, initially most of the cooling was due to conduction. The majority of the losses are due to convection and radiation for the bedded configuration with calcium silicate. Two materials with higher thermal effusivities replaced the substrate in the bedded configuration. These cases had larger relative contributions to cooling from conduction compared to the bedded calcium silicate case.