Confined Jet Impingement Thermal Management Using Liquid Ammonia as the Working Fluid

Author(s):  
Muhammad M. Rahman ◽  
Padmaja Dontaraju ◽  
Rengasamy Ponnappan

The focus of the study was the conjugate heat transfer during impingement of a confined liquid jet. Two numerical models of a heat transfer process with heat transmission through a fluid-solid interface have been developed. In the first case only the fluid region has been considered while in the second case the solid region has been modeled along with the fluid region as a conjugate problem. The inlet nozzle Reynolds number has been kept at values where laminar flow can be assumed in all cases. The solid-fluid interface temperature shows a strong dependence on several geometric, fluid flow, and heat transfer parameters. The Nusselt number increased with Reynolds number. For a given flow rate, a higher heat transfer coefficient was obtained with smaller slot width and lower impingement height. A higher heat transfer coefficient at the impingement location was seen at a smaller thickness, whereas a thicker plate provided a more uniform distribution of heat transfer coefficient. Compared to Mil-7808 and FC-77, ammonia provided much smaller solid-fluid interface temperature and higher heat transfer coefficient.

Author(s):  
Nalla Ramu ◽  
P. S. Ghoshdastidar

Abstract This paper presents a computational study of mixed convection cooling of four in-line electronic chips by alumina-deionized (DI) water nanofluid. The chips are flush-mounted in the substrate of one wall of a vertical rectangular channel. The working fluid enters from the bottom with uniform velocity and temperature and exits from the top after becoming fully developed. The nanofluid properties are obtained from the past experimental studies. The nanofluid performance is estimated by computing the enhancement factor which is the ratio of chips averaged heat transfer coefficient in nanofluid to that in base fluid. An exhaustive parametric study is performed to evaluate the dependence of nanoparticle volume fraction, diameter of Al2O3 nanoparticles in the range of 13–87.5 nm, Reynolds number, inlet velocity, chip heat flux, and mass flowrate on enhancement in heat transfer coefficient. It is found that nanofluids with smaller particle diameters have higher enhancement factors. It is also observed that enhancement factors are higher when the nanofluid Reynolds number is kept equal to that of the base fluid as compared with the cases of equal inlet velocities and equal mass flowrates. The linear variation in mean pressure along the channel is observed and is higher for smaller nanoparticle diameters.


1966 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Krall ◽  
E. M. Sparrow

Experiments were performed to determine the effect of flow separation on the heat-transfer characteristics of a turbulent pipe flow. The flow separation was induced by an orifice situated at the inlet of an electrically heated circular tube. The degree of flow separation was varied by employing orifices of various bore diameters. Water was the working fluid. The Reynolds number and the Prandtl number, respectively, ranged from 10,000 to 130,000 and from 3 to 6. The measurements show that the local heat-transfer coefficients in the separated, reattached, and redevelopment regions are several times as large as those for a fully developed flow. For instance, at the point of reattachment, the coefficients were 3 to 9 times greater than the corresponding fully developed values. In general, the increase of the heat-transfer coefficient owing to flow separation is accentuated as the Reynolds number decreases. The point of flow reattachment, which corresponds to a maximum in the distribution of the heat-transfer coefficient, was found to occur from 1.25 to 2.5 pipe dia from the onset of separation.


Author(s):  
Humberto Santos ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
David Kukulka

Abstract A CFD investigation was carried out to compare the thermal performance of the 1EHT-1 and 1EHT-2 tubes with a smooth surface tube using R410A at 311K as working fluid. These tubes have enhanced heat transfer area generated by a series of dimples/protrusions and petals distributed over its surface. All the stages of this simulation were conducted using Ansys Fluent. Initially, the physical model of the fluid domain was developed using the Design Modeler module, with an internal tube diameter of 8.32mm, and then imported to the meshing module for the griding process. To ensure accuracy in the results, the mesh average orthogonal quality was kept above 0.7, with the minimum orthogonal quality higher than 0.1. For the numerical simulation, SST k-omega model was used, with Reynolds number ranging from 16000 to 35000. The results of the heat transfer coefficient were validated based on previous experimental work. As expected, at the lowest Reynolds number tested, the heat transfer coefficient for the 1EHT-1 tube was 1097.5 W.K−1.m−2, followed by 1058 W.K−1.m−2 for the 1EHT-2 and nearly 846 W.K−1.m−2 for the smooth tube. When compared with the experimental results, a good agreement was observed, and the HTC relative error (RE) for all tubes tested was below 10%. It is possible to conclude that the CFD model used here presents as powerful tool to simulate and predict heat transfer with good accuracy, allowing optimization in heat exchangers design and operational parameters.


Author(s):  
Jorge Lallave ◽  
Muhammad M. Rahman

This paper presents a numerical study that characterizes the conjugate heat transfer results of a semi–confined liquid jet impingement on a uniformly heated spinning solid disk of finite thickness and radius. The model covers the entire fluid region including the impinging jet on a flat circular disk and flow spreading out downstream under the confined insulated wall that ultimately gets exposed to a free surface boundary condition. The solution is made under steady state and laminar conditions. The model examines how the heat transfer is affected by adding a secondary rotational flow under semi-confined jet impingement. The study considered various standard materials, namely aluminum, copper, silver, Constantan and silicon; covering a range of flow Reynolds number (220–900), under a broad rotational rate range from 0 to 750 rpm, or Ekman number (7.08×10−5 – ∞), nozzle to target spacing (β = 0.25 – 1.0), disk thicknesses to nozzle diameter ratio (b/dn = 0.25 – 1.67), Prandtl number (1.29 – 124.44) using ammonia (NH3), water (H2O), flouroinert (FC-77) and oil (MIL-7808) as working fluids and solid to fluid thermal conductivity ratio (36.91 – 2222). High thermal conductivity plate materials maintained more uniform and lower interface temperature distributions. Higher Reynolds number increased local heat transfer coefficient reducing the interface temperature difference over the entire wall. Rotational rate increases local heat transfer coefficient under most conditions. These findings are important for the design improvement and control of semi-confined liquid jet impingement under a secondary rotation induced motion.


Author(s):  
Muhammad M. Rahman ◽  
Cesar F. Hernandez ◽  
Jorge C. Lallave

The flow structure and convective heat transfer behavior of a free liquid jet impinging on a hemispherical solid plate of finite thickness have been examined using a numerical analysis. The simulation model included the entire fluid region (impinging jet and flow spreading out over the convex surface) and solid plate as a conjugate problem. Solution was done for both isothermal and constant heat flux boundary conditions at the inner surface of the hemispherical plate. Computations were done for jet Reynolds number (ReJ) ranging from 500 to 2000 and the dimensionless nozzle to target spacing ratio (β) from 0.75 to 3. Results are presented for local heat transfer coefficient and the local Nusselt number using the following working fluids: water (H2O), flouroinert (FC-77), and oil (MIL-7808) and for various solid materials namely aluminum, Constantan, copper, silicon, and silver. It was observed that plate materials with higher thermal conductivity maintained a more uniform temperature distribution at the solid-fluid interface. A higher Reynolds number increased the Nusselt number and local heat transfer coefficient distributions over the entire solid-fluid interface.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Abid A. Memon ◽  
M. Asif Memon ◽  
Aisha M. Alqahtani ◽  
Kaleemullah Bhatti ◽  
Kamsing Nonlaopon ◽  
...  

Nonisothermal flow through the rectangular channel on a circular surface under the influence of a screen embedded at the middle of a channel at angles θ is considered. Simulations are carried out via COMSOL Multiphysics 5.4 which implements the finite element method with an emerging technique of the least square procedure of Galerkin’s method. Air as working fluid depends upon the Reynolds number with initial temperature allowed to enter from the inlet of the channel. The nonisothermal flow has been checked with the help of parameters such as Reynolds number, angle of the screen, and variations in resistance coefficient. The consequence and the pattern of the velocity field, pressure, temperature, heat transfer coefficient, and local Nusselt number are described on the front surface of the circular obstacle. The rise in the temperature and the flow rate on the surface of the obstacle has been determined against increasing Reynolds number. Results show that the velocity magnitudes are decreasing down the surface and the pressure is increasing down the surface of the obstacle. The pressure on the surface of the circular obstacle was found to be the function of the y-axis and does not show any impact due to the change of the resistance coefficient. Also, it was indicated that the temperature on the front circular surface does not depend upon the orientation of the screen and resistance factor. The heat transfer coefficient is decreasing which indicates that the conduction process is dominating over the convection process.


Author(s):  
Basant Singh Sikarwar ◽  
K. Muralidhar ◽  
Sameer Khandekar

Clusters of liquid drops growing and moving on physically or chemically textured lyophobic surfaces are encountered in drop-wise mode of vapor condensation. As opposed to film-wise condensation, drops permit a large heat transfer coefficient and are hence attractive. However, the temporal sustainability of drop formation on a surface is a challenging task, primarily because the sliding drops eventually leach away the lyophobicity promoter layer. Assuming that there is no chemical reaction between the promoter and the condensing liquid, the wall shear stress (viscous resistance) is the prime parameter for controlling physical leaching. The dynamic shape of individual droplets, as they form and roll/slide on such surfaces, determines the effective shear interaction at the wall. Given a shear stress distribution of an individual droplet, the net effect of droplet ensemble can be determined using the time averaged population density during condensation. In this paper, we solve the Navier-Stokes and the energy equation in three-dimensions on an unstructured tetrahedral grid representing the computational domain corresponding to an isolated pendant droplet sliding on a lyophobic substrate. We correlate the droplet Reynolds number (Re = 10–500, based on droplet hydraulic diameter), contact angle and shape of droplet with wall shear stress and heat transfer coefficient. The simulations presented here are for Prandtl Number (Pr) = 5.8. We see that, both Poiseuille number (Po) and Nusselt number (Nu), increase with increasing the droplet Reynolds number. The maximum shear stress as well as heat transfer occurs at the droplet corners. For a given droplet volume, increasing contact angle decreases the transport coefficients.


Author(s):  
Hongbin He ◽  
Biao Shen ◽  
Sumitomo Hidaka ◽  
Koji Takahashi ◽  
Yasuyuki Takata

Heat transfer characteristic of a closed two-phase thermosyphon with enhanced boiling surface is studied and compared with that of a copper mirror surface. Two-phase cooling improves heat transfer coefficient (HTC) a lot compared to single-phase liquid cooling. The evaporator surfaces, coated with a pattern of hydrophobic circle spots (non-electroplating Ni-PTFE, 0.5∼2 mm in diameter and 1.5–3 mm in pitch) on Cu substrates, achieve very high heat transfer coefficient and lower the incipience temperature overshoot using water as the working fluid. Sub-atmospheric boiling on the hydrophobic spot-coated surface shows a much better heat transfer performance. Tests with heat loads (30 W to 260 W) reveals the coated surfaces enhance nucleate boiling performance by increasing the bubbles nucleation sites density. Hydrophobic circle spots coated surface with diameter 1 mm, pitch 1.5 mm achieves the maximal heat transfer enhancement with the minimum boiling thermal resistance as low as 0.03 K/W. The comparison of three evaporator surfaces with same spot parameters but different coating materials is carried out experimentally. Ni-PTFE coated surface with immersion method performs the optimal performance of the thermosyphon.


Author(s):  
Lorenzo Cremaschi

Driven by higher energy efficiency targets and industrial needs of process intensification and miniaturization, nanofluids have been proposed in energy conversion, power generation, chemical, electronic cooling, biological, and environmental systems. In space conditioning and in cooling systems for high power density electronics, vapor compression cycles provide cooling. The working fluid is a refrigerant and oil mixture. A small amount of lubricating oil is needed to lubricate and to seal the sliding parts of the compressors. In heat exchangers the oil in excess penalizes the heat transfer and increases the flow losses: both effects are highly undesired but yet unavoidable. This paper studies the heat transfer characteristics of nanorefrigerants, a new class of nanofluids defined as refrigerant and lubricant mixtures in which nano-size particles are dispersed in the high-viscosity liquid phase. The heat transfer coefficient is strongly governed by the viscous film excess layer that resides at the wall surface. In the state-of-the-art knowledge, while nanoparticles in the refrigerant and lubricant mixtures were recently experimentally studied and yielded convective in-tube flow boiling heat transfer enhancements by as much as 101%, the interactions of nanoparticles with the mixture still pose several open questions. The model developed in this work suggested that the nanoparticles in this excess layer generate a micro-convective mass flux transverse to the flow direction that augments the thermal energy transport within the oil film in addition to the macroscopic heat conduction and fluid convection effects. The nanoparticles motion in the shearing-induced and non-uniform shear rate field is added to the motion of the nanoparticles due to their own Brownian diffusion. The augmentation of the liquid phase thermal conductivity was predicted by the developed model but alone it did not fully explain the intensification on the two-phase flow boiling heat transfer coefficient reported in previous work in the literature. Thus, additional nano- and micro-scale heat transfer intensification mechanisms were proposed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3 Part B) ◽  
pp. 1779-1789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Ahmed ◽  
Salim Kazi ◽  
Ghulamullah Khan ◽  
Mohd Zubir ◽  
Mahidzal Dahari ◽  
...  

Experimental study of nanofluid flow and heat transfer to fully developed turbulent forced convection flow in a uniformly heated tubular horizontal backward-facing step has reported in the present study. To study the forced convective heat transfer coefficient in the turbulent regime, an experimental study is performed at a different weight concentration of Al2O3 nanoparticles. The experiment had conducted for water and Al2O3 -water nanofluid for the concentration range of 0 to 0.1 wt.% and Reynolds number of 4000 to 16000. The average heat transfer coefficient ratio increases significantly as Reynolds number increasing, increased from 9.6% at Reynolds number of 4000 to 26.3% at Reynolds number of 16000 at the constant weight concentration of 0.1%. The Al2O3 water nanofluid exhibited excellent thermal performance in the tube with a backwardfacing step in comparison to distilled water. However, the pressure losses increased with the increase of the Reynolds number and/or the weight concentrations, but the enhancement rates were insignificant.


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