Impact of Surface Micro-Structures on Liquid Micro-Jet Array Impingement Cooling: Comparison Between Single-Phase and Phase Change Heat Transfer

Author(s):  
Avijit Bhunia ◽  
Ya-Chi Chen ◽  
Chung-Lung Chen

This article investigates liquid micro-jet array impingement cooling of a micro-structured surface. An array of 16 free-surface DI water jets, each 125 μm in diameter, and jet Reynolds number ranging between 816 and 2124, is used. A parametric study is carried out with micro-studs of varying size and spacing, implemented on a 1 cm2 base area surface. Based on the decades of research on heat transfer enhancement by surface modification, one would intuitively think that impingement cooling of a micro-structured surface will always be better than that of a plain surface. The current results are in contrary. The micro-structures actually degrade single-phase impingement heat transfer, compared to a plain surface. On the other hand, in the phase change regime they significantly enhance heat transfer, leading to a clear choice of optimal structure. The results are explained in the light of thin film dynamics, heat transfer surface area enhancement and nucleation site density.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srinath V. Ekkad ◽  
Prashant Singh

Abstract Jet impingement cooling is considered as one of the most effective heat transfer enhancement technique. The advantage of the jet impinging on the surface is due to creating a stagnation zone in the center of the jet resulting in highest heat transfer rates compared to other conventional techniques for single phase thermal transfer. The effectiveness of jet impingement as a cooling technique is well documented but the application of jet impingement to different problems has been hindered by inability of manufacturing methods to incorporate easily into cooling designs. Impingement heat transfer effectiveness can be further improved by improving the jet strength by modifying the jet holes, enhancing surface features, or adding swirl. There have been few recent reviews on jet impingement in the past but there has been an increased usage of this cooling technique and additional modifications in geometry to further enhance the heat transfer capacity to suit different applications. This review paper provides a comprehensive look at impingement cooling over a variety of modifications and applications with a focus on improved manufacturing techniques impacting design and implementation.


Author(s):  
Fatih Selimefendigil ◽  
Hakan F. Oztop

Abstract Nanoliquid impingement heat transfer with phase change material (PCM) installed radial system is considered. Study is performed by using finite element method for various values of Reynolds numbers (100 ≤ Re ≤ 300), height of PCM (0.25H ≤ hpcm = 0.7H ≤ 0.75H) and plate spacing (0.15H ≤ hpcm = 0.7H ≤ 0.40H). Different configurations with using water, nanoliquid and nanoliquid+PCM are compared in terms of heat transfer improvement. Thermal performance is improved by using PCM while best performance is achieved with nanoliquid and PCM installed configuration. At Re=100 and Re=300, heat transfer improvements of 26% and 25.5% are achieved with nanoliquid+PCM system as compared to water without PCM. Height of the PCM layer also influences the heat transfer dynamic behavior while there is 12.6% variation in the spatial average heat transfer of the target surface with the lowest and highest PCM height while discharging time increases by about 76.5%. As the spacing between the plates decreases, average heat transfer rises and there is 38% variation.


Author(s):  
H. I. Oguntade ◽  
G. E. Andrews ◽  
A. D. Burns ◽  
D. B. Ingham ◽  
M. Pourkashanian

A low coolant mass flow impingement/effusion design for a low NOx combustor wall cooling application was predicted, using conjugate heat transfer (CHT) computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The effusion geometry had 4306/m2 effusion holes in a square array with a hole diameter of D and pitch of X and X/D of 1.9. It had previously been shown experimentally and using CHT/CFD to have the highest adiabatic and overall cooling effectiveness for this number of effusion holes. The effect of adding an X/D of 4.7 impingement jet wall with a 6.6 mm impingement gap, Z, and Z/D of 2.0, on the overall cooling effectiveness was predicted for several coolant mass flow rates, G kg/sm2bar. At low G the internal wall heat transfer dominated the overall cooling effectiveness. The addition of impingement cooling to effusion cooling gave only a small increase in the overall cooling effectiveness at all G at 127mm downstream of the start of effusion cooling. An overall cooling effectiveness >0.7 was predicted for a low G of 0.30 kg/sm2bar. This represents about 15% of the combustion air for a typical industrial gas turbine combustor and design changes to reduce this further were suggested based on the predictions of this geometry. The main benefit of the impingement cooling was at the start of the effusion cooling, where the overall cooling effectiveness was dominated by the internal wall impingement and effusion cooling. The separate effusion and impingement cooling were also predicted for comparison with their combination. This showed that the combination of impingement and effusion was not the sum of the individual effusion and impingement heat transfer. The predictions showed that the aerodynamic interactions decreased the effusion and impingement internal wall heat transfer.


Author(s):  
M. M. Kabir ◽  
Sangsoo Lee

Abstract Recent leaps in heat dissipation make it difficult for typical heat exchangers to meet the requirements of the advanced applications even with the maximally obtainable heat transfer performance associated with a single-phase process. Especially high heat flux applications such as thermal management in microelectronics, advanced material processing, and nuclear fusion reactors require extreme heat transfer methods to overcome the current limits. In this study, a heat exchanger adopting simultaneously two-opposite, phase-change heat transfer processes (internal flow boiling and external condensation) was proposed and analytically investigated. The phase-change heat transfer analyses were conducted for internal flow boiling and external condensation at a test section and the heat transfer performances were compared with that of a system with an internal single-phase, liquid flow process. It is found that the proposed heat exchanger configuration with an internal flow boiling can substantially enhance the heat transfer performances and provide better methods to manage the temperature difference comparing to those with an internal single-phase heat transfer due to its significant increase in a heat transfer coefficients and constant temperatures during phase-change processes. Additionally, this study also explains the design for a test rig to evaluate and validate the results in detail. The test rig consists of an internal flow boiling loop with a test section, an external condensation loop, sensors, auxiliary monitoring parts, and controlling and data acquisition systems. Thermodynamic cycle, pressure drop, and heat transfer analyses were conducted to determine the conditions and the specifications of components and sensors for the test rig.


Author(s):  
G. E. Andrews ◽  
A. A. Asere ◽  
C. I. Hussain ◽  
M. C. Mkpadi ◽  
A. Nazari

Experimental results are presented for the overall heat transfer coefficient within an impingement/effusion wall, using a transient cooling technique. This was previously used for determining the effusion hole heat transfer alone. Two impingement/effusion geometries were used with an 8 mm gap and the same impingement wall with an X/D of 11. The separate impingement and effusion short hole heat transfer coefficients were also determined. The impingement/effusion overall heat transfer was 45% and 30% higher than the impingement heat transfer alone for the two test geometries. The greater increase was for the higher pressure loss effusion wall. It was shown that the combined heat transfer was predominantly the addition of the impingement and effusion heat transfer coefficients but the interaction effects were significant and resulted in an approximately 15% deterioration in the combined heat transfer coefficient. Overall film cooling effectiveness was obtained that showed a significant improvement with the addition of the impingement cooling, but still had a major effusion film cooling contribution.


1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Andrews ◽  
J. Durance ◽  
C. I. Hussain ◽  
S. N. Ojobor

The choice of hole diameter in impingement cooling requires the number of holes to be specified and design information is provided for this purpose. The correlations for impingement cooling usually take geometry effects into account by using the pitch-to-diameter ratio (X/D) and this is independent of the number of holes and specified purely by the desired pressure loss at a given flow rate. Impingement heat transfer from a square array of holes was studied for a range of coolant flows G from 0.1 to 1.8 kg/sm2 at a fixed X/D of approximately 10. The number of holes per unit surface area N was varied by a factor of 70 at a constant gap-to-hole diameter ratio Z/D of 4.5 and constant gaps of 3 mm and 10 mm. It was shown that there was a range of N over which there was only a small influence on heat transfer at constant G. However, heat transfer fell at large N due to crossflow effects and at low N due to inadequate surface coverage of the impingement flow.


Author(s):  
Satyanarayana Kondle ◽  
Jorge L. Alvarado ◽  
Charles Marsh ◽  
Gurunarayana Ravi

Microchannels have been extensively studied for electronic cooling applications ever since they were found to be effective in removing high heat flux from small areas. Many configurations of microchannels have been studied and compared for their effectiveness in heat removal. However, there is little data available in the literature on the use of pins in microchannels. Staggered pins in microchannels have higher heat removal characteristics because of the continuous breaking and formation of the boundary layer, but they also exhibit higher pressure drop because pins act as flow obstructions. This paper presents numerical results of two characteristic staggered pins (square and circular) in microchannels. The heat transfer performance of a single phase fluid in microchannels with staggered pins, and the corresponding pressure drop characteristics are also presented. An effective specific heat capacity model was used to account for the phase change process of PCM fluid. Comparison of heat transfer characteristics of single phase fluid and PCM fluid are made for two pins geometries for three different Reynolds numbers. Circular pins were found to be more effective in terms of heat transfer by exhibiting higher Nusselt number. Circular pin microchannels were also found to have lower pressure drop compared to the square pin microchannels.


Author(s):  
Houman B. Rokni ◽  
Ehsan M. Languri ◽  
Wayne Johnson

The current trend in miniaturization of electronic devises requires more effective thermal management techniques to remove the heat to ensure the maximum performance of the devise. Among all available thermal management techniques for electronic cooling, convective heat transfer cooling has gained attentions due to low cost and maturity in the market. The single-phase convective heat removal technique suffers from the low heat carrying capacity since there is no phase change occurs during the process. On the other hand, Microencapsulated phase change materials (MPCMs) are gaining attention due to their high heat carrying capacity. MPCMs are composed of phase change material (PCM) as the core material that is encapsulated with micrometer size shell materials. The PCM inside the capsules may undergo a phase change as the temperature varies around the melting and freezing temperature points of the PCM. This leads to a significant heat gain/release due to the phase change of the PCM. In this paper, we are performing a numerical modeling on the performance of MPCMs mixed with single-phase base fluid when pumped through planar spiral coils. From electronic thermal management point of view, it is ideal to have an enhanced coolant that maintain the operating temperature under an allowable level uniformly. The behavior of MPCM slurry when pumped through planar spiral coils reveals unique patterns due to the centrifugal forces. The available data on MPCM slurry through spiral coil heat exchangers show the new patterns of velocity and heat transfer curves that require further investigation and scientific explanations. The current paper studies the steady conditions of flows under laminar regimes at different boundary conditions. A CAD model of a planar coil heat exchanger is developed in SolidWorks. The model is meshed and discretized in order to apply the governing equations into the model. ANSYS Fluent package is used to solve the fluid flow and heat transfer equations inside the geometry. The velocity and temperature profiles along the coil are studied and discussed to quantify the roles of different forces in such flows. The ultimate goal of this study to evaluate the efficacy of utilizing such formulated microencapsulated PCM slurry at different mass concentrations on electronic thermal management considering the cost associated to the added pressure drop when using MPCM slurry.


Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar Moharana ◽  
Rohan M. Nemade ◽  
Sameer Khandekar

Hydrogen fuel from renewable bio-ethanol is a potentially strong contender as an energy carrier. Its distributed production by steam reforming of ethanol on microscale platforms is an efficient upcoming method. Such systems require (a) a pre-heater for liquid to vapor conversion of ethanol water mixtures (b) a gas-phase catalytic reactor. We focus on the fundamental experimental heat transfer studies (pool and flow boiling of ethanol-water mixtures) required for the primary pre-heater boiler design. Flow boiling results (in a 256 μm square channel) clearly show the influence of mixture composition. Heat transfer coefficient remains almost constant in the single-phase region and rapidly increases as the two-phase region starts. On further increasing the wall superheat, heat transfer starts to decrease. At higher applied heat flux, the channel is subjected to axial back conduction from the single-phase vapor region to the two-phase liquid-vapor region, thus raising local wall temperatures. Simultaneously, to gain understanding of phase-change mechanisms in binary mixtures and to generate data for the modeling of flow boiling process, pool-boiling of ethanol-water mixtures has also been initiated. After benchmarking the setup against pure fluids, variation of heat transfer coefficient, bubble growth, contact angles, are compared at different operating conditions. Results show strong degradation in heat transfer in mixtures, which increases with operating temperature.


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