The Skin Friction and Heat Transfer in a Laminar Plane Wall Jet That Evolves From a Uniform Velocity to Its Self-Similar Behavior

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnny Issa ◽  
Alfonso Ortega

The plane, steady, laminar wall jet with a uniform velocity and temperature profiles at the jet exit is numerically investigated using a two-dimensional finite volume approach for a variety of Reynolds numbers and Prandtl number of 0.712 and 7. Between the jet exit and the downstream self-similar behavior, the flow exhibits a developing region that is not self-similar. The location of the dimensionless virtual origin is carefully investigated and expressed as a function of Reynolds number. The local skin friction coefficient is observed to converge to the analytical self-similar solution at downstream locations. Since no analytical solution exists for the temperature field in either the developing or self-similar regions of this problem, the thermal solution is investigated for both isothermal and isoflux boundary conditions at the wall. The local and overall skin friction coefficients, in addition to the local and overall Nusselt numbers, are reported as a function of Reynolds number, Prandtl number and the dimensionless location downstream of the jet exit.

Author(s):  
Johnny Issa ◽  
Alfonso Ortega

A finite volume numerical approach is used to study the steady, laminar, plane wall jet that evolves from a parabolic velocity profile with uniform temperature to its self-similar behavior downstream of the jet exit. A variety of Reynolds numbers ranging between 50 and 250 is considered in this numerical investigation. The working fluids are air and water with constant physical properties corresponding to Prandtl number of 0.712 and 7 at ambient conditions. In these types of flows, a developing region over which the flow converges to its self-similar behavior is observed in the vicinity of the jet exit. The location of the dimensionless virtual origin, which is of main importance in determining the flow field in the self-similar region, is carefully studied and correlated as a function of Reynolds number. The local skin friction coefficient is observed to converge to the analytical self-similar solution at downstream locations. Given that an analytical solution for the thermal behavior of this problem doesn’t exist in either the developing or self-similar regions, the thermal solution of this problem is studied for isothermal and uniform heat flux boundary conditions at the wall. The idea of a dimensionless thermal virtual origin is introduced and correlated as a function of Reynolds number. The Nusselt number dependence on Prandtl number, Reynolds number and the downstream location are obtained for both thermal boundary conditions at the wall.


2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Sucec

The combined law of the wall and wake, with the inclusion of the “roughness depression function” for the inner law in the “Log” region, is used as the inner coordinates' velocity profile in the integral form of the x momentum equation to solve for the local skin friction coefficient. The “equivalent sand grain roughness” concept is employed in the roughness depression function in the solution. Calculations are started at the beginning of roughness on a surface, as opposed to starting them using the measured experimental values at the first data point, when making comparisons of predictions with data sets. The dependence of the velocity wake strength on both pressure gradient and momentum thickness Reynolds number are taken into account. Comparisons of the prediction with experimental skin friction data, from the literature, have been made for some adverse, zero, and favorable (accelerating flows) pressure gradients. Predictions of the shape factor, roughness Reynolds number, and momentum thickness Reynolds number and comparisons with data are also made for some cases. In addition, some comparisons with the predictions of earlier investigators have also been made.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuqa Abuldrazzaq ◽  
Hussein Togun ◽  
Hamed Alsulami ◽  
Marjan Goodarzi ◽  
Mohammad Reza Safaei

This paper reports a numerical study on heat transfer improvement in a double backward-facing expanding channel using different convectional fluids. A finite volume method with the k-ε standard model is used to investigate the effects of step, Reynolds number and type of liquid on heat transfer enhancement. Three types of conventional fluids (water, ammonia liquid and ethylene glycol) with Reynolds numbers varying from 98.5 to 512 and three cases for different step heights at a constant heat flux (q = 2000 W/m2) are examined. The top wall of the passage and the bottom wall of the upstream section are adiabatic, while the walls of both the first and second steps downstream are heated. The results show that the local Nusselt number rises with the augmentation of the Reynolds number, and the critical effects are seen in the entrance area of the first and second steps. The maximum average Nusselt number, which represents the thermal performance, can be seen clearly in case 1 for EG in comparison to water and ammonia. Due to the expanding of the passage, separation flow is generated, which causes a rapid increment in the local skin friction coefficient, especially at the first and second steps of the downstream section for water, ammonia liquid and EG. The maximum skin friction coefficient is detected in case 1 for water with Re = 512. Trends of velocities for positions (X/H1 = 2.01, X/H2 = 2.51) at the first and second steps for all the studied cases with different types of convectional fluids are indicated in this paper. The presented findings also include the contour of velocity, which shows the recirculation zones at the first and second steps to demonstrate the improvement in the thermal performance.


1979 ◽  
Vol 23 (02) ◽  
pp. 140-156
Author(s):  
P. N. Joubert ◽  
P. H. Hoffmann

Wind tunnel tests were performed to determine the viscous resistance and its components for a 0.564-CB model from the BSRA Trawler Series. It was found that the sum of the pressure and skin friction resistance coefficients agreed well with the viscous resistance coefficient determined from drag balance tests. The range of Reynolds number examined was from 1.15 × 106 to 5.17 × 106. The results for the viscous resistance and its components were fitted using least-squares methods to various equations. The results were also compared with the results of previous tests done at the University of Melbourne on models of Lucy Ash-. ton and a 0.80-CB tanker. It was found that the skin friction and viscous resistance coefficients had curves of quite different position and slope. Local skin friction distribution showed noteworthy differences, especially at the stern, with high values at the keel and low values approaching the waterline.


Author(s):  
Takashi Kodama ◽  
Shinsuke Mochizuki

New optical method for measurement of the local wall shear stress has been developed by using thermo-chromic liquid crystal temperature measurement based on hue [1], [2] of the camera view. The flow field is the fully developed turbulent channel flow. Thin film made of thermo-chromic liquid crystal is placed on the wall. A rectangular shaped obstacle is glued on the film. The obstacle is within a region of buffer layer with height from the wall. Temperature of the film and the obstacle are slightly raised by a heater below the wall. The air flow makes non-uniform temperature distribution and non-uniform color distribution appears on the surface of the film. Relations between hue and local skin friction coefficient were examined in a turbulent air channel flow. It is indicated that a certain hue of a point is varying linearly against the corresponding local skin friction coefficient.


2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Mahmoud ◽  
Shimaa Waheed

A theoretical analysis is performed to study the flow and heat transfer characteristics of magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection flow of a micropolar fluid past a stretching surface with slip velocity at the surface and heat generation (absorption). The transformed equations solved numerically using the Chebyshev spectral method. Numerical results for the velocity, the angular velocity, and the temperature for various values of different parameters are illustrated graphically. Also, the effects of various parameters on the local skin-friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number are given in tabular form and discussed. The results show that the mixed convection parameter has the effect of enhancing both the velocity and the local Nusselt number and suppressing both the local skin-friction coefficient and the temperature. It is found that local skin-friction coefficient increases while the local Nusselt number decreases as the magnetic parameter increases. The results show also that increasing the heat generation parameter leads to a rise in both the velocity and the temperature and a fall in the local skin-friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number. Furthermore, it is shown that the local skin-friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number decrease when the slip parameter increases.


2016 ◽  
Vol 808 ◽  
pp. 511-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo de Giovanetti ◽  
Yongyun Hwang ◽  
Haecheon Choi

Despite a growing body of recent evidence on the hierarchical organization of the self-similar energy-containing motions in the form of Townsend’s attached eddies in wall-bounded turbulent flows, their role in turbulent skin-friction generation is currently not well understood. In this paper, the contribution of each of these self-similar energy-containing motions to turbulent skin friction is explored up to $Re_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}\simeq 4000$. Three different approaches are employed to quantify the skin-friction generation by the motions, the spanwise length scale of which is smaller than a given cutoff wavelength: (i) FIK (Fukagata, Iwamoto, Kasagi) identity in combination with the spanwise wavenumber spectra of the Reynolds shear stress; (ii) confinement of the spanwise computational domain; (iii) artificial damping of the motions to be examined. The near-wall motions are found to continuously reduce their role in skin-friction generation on increasing the Reynolds number, consistent with the previous finding at low Reynolds numbers. The largest structures given in the form of very-large-scale and large-scale motions are also found to be of limited importance: due to a non-trivial scale interaction process, their complete removal yields only a 5–8 % skin-friction reduction at all of the Reynolds numbers considered, although they are found to be responsible for 20–30 % of total skin friction at $Re_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}\simeq 2000$. Application of all the three approaches consistently reveals that the largest amount of skin friction is generated by the self-similar motions populating the logarithmic region. It is further shown that the contribution of these motions to turbulent skin friction gradually increases with the Reynolds number, and that these coherent structures are eventually responsible for most of turbulent skin-friction generation at sufficiently high Reynolds numbers.


2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Rostamy ◽  
D. J. Bergstrom ◽  
D. Sumner ◽  
J. D. Bugg

The effect of surface roughness on the mean velocity and skin friction characteristics of a plane turbulent wall jet was experimentally investigated using laser Doppler anemometry. The Reynolds number based on the slot height and exit velocity of the jet was approximately Re = 7500. A 36-grit sheet was used to create a transitionally rough flow (44 < ks+ < 70). Measurements were carried out at downstream distances from the jet exit ranging from 20 to 80 slot heights. Both conventional and momentum-viscosity scaling were used to analyze the streamwise evolution of the flow on smooth and rough walls. Three different methods were employed to estimate the friction velocity in the fully developed region of the wall jet, which was then used to calculate the skin friction coefficient. This paper provides new experimental data for the case of a plane wall jet on a transitionally rough surface and uses it to quantify the effects of roughness on the momentum field. The present results indicate that the skin friction coefficient for the rough-wall case compared to a smooth wall increases by as much as 140%. Overall, the study suggests that for the transitionally rough regime considered in the present study, roughness effects are significant but mostly confined to the inner region of the wall jet.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1739-1749
Author(s):  
Gamal M. Abdel-Rahman ◽  
Faiza M. N. El-Fayez

We in this study investigated Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects embedded in a porous medium flow with heat transfer generation and chemical reaction on a stretching sheet and Jeffrey fluid model for viscoelastic nanofluid under the effects of magnetic field and thermal radiation. The nanofluid was assumed incompressible and the flow was laminar, with base fluid containing the following types of nanoparticles: Copper (Cu), Aluminum (Al2O3) and Titanium Oxide (TiO2). The governing continuity, momentum, and energy equations for the nanofluid were reduced using similarity transformation and converted into a system of non-Linear ordinary differential equations which were solved numerically. Numerical solutions were also obtained for the velocity, temperature and nanoparticle concentration fields, as well as for skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number. Finally, numerical values for the physical quantities, such as local skin-friction coefficient, local Nusselt number, local Sherwood number and wall deposition flux are herein presented in tabular form.


1975 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. V. Chandrasekhara Swamy ◽  
P. Bandyopadhyay

This paper reports experimental investigations on the characteristic decay and the radial-type decay regions of a three-dimensional isothermal turbulent wall jet in quiescent surroundings. The velocity and the length scale behaviour for both the longitudinal and the transverse directions are studied, and compared with the results of other workers. The estimated skin friction is discussed in relation to the available data from earlier investigations. Wall jet expansion rates and the behaviour of skin friction are also discussed. The rate of approach of turbulence components to a self-similar form is found to be influenced by the fact that the expansion rate of the wall jet in the longitudinal direction is different from that in the transverse.


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