An Experimental Setup for Multiple Air Jet Impingement Over a Surface

Author(s):  
Flávia V. Barbosa ◽  
João P. V. Silva ◽  
Pedro E. A. Ribeiro ◽  
Senhorinha F. C. F. Teixeira ◽  
Delfim F. Soares ◽  
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Air jet impingement technology receives considerable attention due to its high performance for heat transfer enhancement in thermal equipment, providing high heat transfer rates. Due to its inherent characteristics of high average heat transfer coefficients and uniformity of the heat transfer over the impinging surface, this technology is implemented in a variety of engineering applications and industrial processes, such as reflow soldering, drying of textile, cooling of turbojet engine blades and fusion reactors. Multiple jet impingement involves several variables such as: jets arrangement, jet diameter, nozzle-to-surface distance, nozzle shape, jet-to-jet spacing, jet velocity and Reynolds number, among others. However, the total control of all these parameters is still one of the remarkable issues of the thermal design of jet impingement systems. In some industries that have implemented this technology in their processes, such as reflow soldering, the range of values of these variables are established through empiricism and “trial and error” techniques. To improve the process and to reduce time and costs, it is fundamental to define accurately all the process parameters in order to obtain an optimized design with a high degree of control of the heat transfer over the target surface. To perform an accurate and complete study of the multiple jet impingement variables for a specific application, the development of both experimental and numerical studies is fundamental in order to obtain reliable results. In that sense, this work reports the project and construction of a purpose-built test facility which has been commissioned, using a PIV system. This experimental setup is based on the oven used in the reflow soldering process. The optimization of the multiple jets geometry which is integrated in the experimental setup is herein described and discussed both experimentally and numerically. The numerical simulation of the jet impingement inside the oven was conducted using the ANSYS software, specially designed to predict the fluid behavior. Regarding the relevance of the multiple jet impingement, this work intends to improve the knowledge in this field and to give reliable and scientifically proved answers to the industries that apply this technology in their processes.

Author(s):  
Oksana Lytvynenko ◽  
Irina Myhaylova

Due to the importance of the problems of implementing energy-saving technologies in modern conditions, one of the promising areas is the use of gas turbines for combined heat and power generation. One of the areas of effective development and technical re-equipment is the widespread use of highly economical combined steam and gas plants and gas turbines. The operation of the gas turbine unit “Aquarius” SE NPCG “Zorya-Mashproekt” with the injection of steam into the combustion chamber, which operates on the advanced cycle A-STIG and has in its circuit equipment for water regeneration, condensed from a vapor-gas mixture is considered. For condensation of steam from the vapor-gas mixture, a contact condenser-gas cooler is used, which is a mixing heat exchanger of complex design. The efficiency of heat transfer is determined by the design of the nozzle, namely, the developed heat transfer surface, small hydraulic supports, high heat transfer coefficients. An important aspect is the overall dimensions, which must be within certain limits. In the work it is offered to execute a design of the condenser in the form of a packed column. Different types of nozzles are considered to choose the best option. As a result of thermal design calculation of the contact capacitor, it is proposed to use Rashiga rings (15152) as a nozzle, which provide the lowest height of the nozzle at the required diameter of the device.


1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis A. Brignoni ◽  
Suresh V. Garimella

Experimental measurements were obtained to characterize the thermal performance of ducted air suction in conjunction with a pin-fin heat sink. Four single nozzles of different diameters and two multiple-nozzle arrays were studied at a fixed nozzle-to-target distance, for different turbulent Reynolds numbers 5000⩽Re⩽20,000. Variations of nozzle-to-target distance, i.e., open area, in ducted suction were found to have a strong effect on heat transfer especially with the larger diameter single nozzle and both multiple-nozzle arrays. Enhancement factors were computed with the heat sink in suction flow, relative to a bare surface, and were in the range of 8.3 to 17.7, with the largest value being obtained for the nine-nozzle array. Results from the present study on air jet suction are compared with previous experiments with air jet impingement on the pin-fin heat sink. Average heat transfer coefficients and thermal resistance values are reported for the heat sink as a function of Reynolds number, air flow rate, and pumping power. [S1043-7398(00)00903-8]


Author(s):  
Gregory J. Michna ◽  
Eric A. Browne ◽  
Yoav Peles ◽  
Michael K. Jensen

Electronics cooling is becoming increasingly difficult due to increasing power consumption and decreasing size of processor chips. Heat fluxes in processors and power electronics are quickly approaching levels that cannot be easily addressed by forced air convection over finned heat sinks. Jet impingement cooling offers high heat transfer coefficients and has been used effectively in conventional-scale applications such as turbine blade cooling and the quenching of metals. However, literature in the area of microjet arrays is scarce and has not studied arrays of large area ratios. Hence, the objective of this study is to experimentally assess the heat transfer performance of arrays of microjets. The microjet arrays were fabricated using MEMS processes in a clean room environment. The heat transfer performance of several arrays using deionized water as the working fluid was investigated. Inline and staggered array arrangements were investigated, and the area ratio (total area of the jets divided by the surface area) was varied between 0.036 and 0.35. Reynolds numbers defined by the jet diameter were in the range of 50 to 3,500. Heat fluxes greater than 1,000 W/cm2 were obtained at fluid inlet-to-surface temperature differences of less than 30 °C. Heat transfer performance improved as the area ratio was increased.


Author(s):  
Tadhg S. O’Donovan ◽  
Darina B. Murray

Impinging air jets are known as a method of achieving particularly high heat transfer coefficients and are employed in many applications including the cooling of electronics, manufacturing processes such as grinding, etc. The current investigation is concerned with acoustically exciting an impinging air jet to enhance its overall cooling capacity. Distributions of the heat transfer to an axially impinging air jet for a range of Reynolds numbers (Re) from 10000 to 30000, non-dimensional nozzle to impingement surface heights (H/D) from 0.5 to 2 and excitation frequencies (f) that range from 0.5 to 1 times the natural frequency of the jet are presented. For this low range of nozzle to impingement surface spacings it has been shown that the heat transfer distribution exhibits a peak at the stagnation point and secondary peaks at a radial location that is both excitation frequency and Reynolds number dependent. Distributions of the fluctuating component of the heat transfer coefficient are also presented for the range of parameters tested. These have been used, along with spectral analysis of the heat flux signal, to discern whether local variations in heat transfer are due to changes in the local vortex flow or to changes in the mean flow structure of the impinging jet.


Author(s):  
Flávia V. Barbosa ◽  
Carlos A. P. Costa ◽  
Senhorinha F. C. F. Teixeira ◽  
José C. F. Teixeira

Abstract The study of the flow interaction and the heat transfer between air jets and a surface is of paramount importance in industrial processes that apply multiple air jet impingement. To ensure a good performance of the process, high heat transfer rates and uniformization of the flow over the target plate are required. To perform this analysis, a PIV technique was implemented for the measurement of the velocity fields of the flow. However, as any real experiment, the values recorded by the PIV method are subjected to several errors that compromise the reliability and accuracy of the measurements. These errors can have different sources, from the installation and alignment to the particles seeding and calibration procedure. To determine an interval that contains the measurement error, the uncertainty quantification is crucial. In that sense, this paper focus on the identification of measurement errors and uncertainty quantification of an experimental set up specially built for the analysis of the interaction between a non-isothermal jets and non-flat surfaces moving perpendicularly to the jet axis. To ensure the reliability of the results, preliminary tests were performed to guarantee a uniform and stable flow and to determine the range and conditions of operation. In addition, this work presents an analysis of the system, and the source of errors are identified, quantified and, when possible, corrected. The particle seeding, which consists of olive oil droplets, is characterized and its efficiency for the flow tracking is analysed. The test facility was tested to fully characterize the flow field in terms of mean velocity profile and turbulence intensity over a wide range of Reynolds numbers and temperature. Several velocity fields are then measured until convergence of the flow quantities is reached. The combination of these measurements with high spatial resolution and low measurement errors allow to obtain accurate and precise measurement values.


2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Onstad ◽  
Christopher J. Elkins ◽  
Robert J. Moffat ◽  
John K. Eaton

Jet impingement cooling is widely used due to the very high heat transfer coefficients that are attainable. Both single and multiple jet systems can be used, however, multiple jet systems offer higher and more uniform heat transfer. A staggered array of 8.46 mm diameter impingement jets with jet-to-jet spacing of 2.34 D was examined where the spent fluid is extracted through one of six 7.36 mm diameter extraction holes regularly located around each jet. The array had an extraction area ratio (Ae/Ajet) of 2.23 locally and was tested with a jet-to-target spacing (H/D) of 1.18 jet diameters. Magnetic resonance velocimetry was used to both quantify and visualize the three dimensional flow field inside the cooling cavity at jet Reynolds numbers of 2600 and 5300. The spatially averaged velocity measurements showed a smooth transition is possible from the impingement jet to the extraction hole without the presence of large vortical structures. Mean Nusselt number measurements were made over a jet Reynolds number range of 2000–10,000. Nusselt numbers near 75 were measured at the highest Reynolds number with an estimated uncertainty of 7%. Large mass flow rate per unit heat transfer area ratios were required because of the small jet-to-jet spacing.


Author(s):  
Flavia Barbosa ◽  
Carlos Costa ◽  
Senhorinha Teixeira ◽  
Jose Carlos Teixeira

Abstract The study of the flow interaction and the heat transfer between air jets and a surface is of paramount importance in industrial processes that apply air jet impingement. To ensure a good performance of the process, high heat transfer rates and uniformization of the flow over the target plate are required. To perform this analysis, a PIV technique was implemented for the measurement of the flow velocity fields. However, as any real experiment, the values recorded by the PIV method are subjected to several errors that compromise the reliability and accuracy of the measurements. These errors can have different sources, from the installation and alignment to the particles seeding and calibration procedure. To maximize the accuracy of the experimental results, this paper focus on the identification of measurement errors and uncertainty quantification of an experimental set up specially built for the analysis of the interaction between air jets and a target surface. This work presents an analysis of the system, and the source of errors are identified, quantified and, when possible, corrected. The particle seeding is characterized and its efficiency for the flow tracking is analyzed. The setup was tested to fully characterize the flow field in terms of mean velocity profile and turbulence intensity over a wide range of Reynolds numbers and temperature. Several velocity fields are then measured until convergence of the flow quantities is reached. The combination of these measurements with high spatial resolution and low measurement errors allow to obtain accurate and precise measurements.


Author(s):  
Thomas L. Lupton ◽  
Darina B. Murray ◽  
Anthony J. Robinson

The decreasing physical size of microchips accompanied by the increasing heat flux to be dissipated has led to the study of possible new innovative electronic cooling methods. Jet cooling has been successfully implemented in a variety of industrial applications and its capacity to maintain high heat transfer rates demonstrates its vast potential for incorporation into future cooling applications. The reduction in size of electronic components leads to the inevitability of jets used in this area being subjected to a degree of jet confinement. In this study the effects of confinement on the local heat transfer characteristics were experimentally investigated for a turbulent, fully developed, axisymmetric, compressible and submerged miniature air jet impinging normally onto an ohmically heated flat plate. The resulting surface temperature distribution was recorded via infrared thermography. Two 1mm diameter nozzles were examined, one confined and one unconfined. Tests were conducted for nozzle exit to impingement surface spacings of 1, 2, 4 and 6 jet diameters and for Reynolds numbers of 7,000 and 12,000 which corresponded to Mach numbers of 0.3 and 0.5. The heat transfer analysis accounts for compressibility effects by using the adiabatic wall temperature as the reference temperature in calculation of the heat transfer coefficients. Local heat transfer distributions are presented as a function of radial distance from the stagnation point. The results obtained indicate that confinement contributes to a flatter distribution of heat transfer over the impingement surface.


Author(s):  
Yutaka Oda ◽  
Kenichiro Takeishi

Two-dimensional jet impingement heat transfer enhanced by submilli-scale ribs has been studied by mass transfer experiments and large eddy simulations. Installation of ribs induces flow separation and reattachment, and realize high heat transfer coefficient in the wall jet region. Higher rib-height was found to be effective to make the enhanced heat transfer region larger. Large eddy simulation was found to predict reattachment length correctly, which then resulted in good agreement of local heat transfer coefficients between experiment and simulations except the stagnation and reattachment regions, where over- and under-estimation occurs.


Author(s):  
Nagesh K. Chougule ◽  
Gajanan V. Parishwad ◽  
Sachin Pagnis ◽  
Prashant R. Gore ◽  
Chandrashekhar M. Sewatkar

Most impinging jet industrial applications involve turbulent flow in the whole domain downstream of the nozzle, and modeling turbulent flow presents the greatest challenge in the effort to rapidly and accurately predict the behavior of turbulent jets. Numerical modeling of impinging jet flows and heat transfer is employed widely for prediction, sensitivity analysis, and device design. Finite volume computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models of impinging jets have succeeded in making good predictions of heat transfer coefficients and velocity fields. The difficulties in accurately predicting velocities and transfer coefficients stem primarily from modeling of turbulence and the interaction of the turbulent flow field with the wall. In present work, the flow and heat transfer characteristics of circular multi jet array (3×3) of 5mm diameter impinging on the Flat plate heat sink are numerically analyzed based on the CFD commercial code ANSYS CFX. The relative performance of four different turbulence models, including Standard k-ε, RNG k-ε, (Renormalization Group), Standard k-ω and SST (Shear-Stress Transport) k-ω models are done for the prediction of this type of flow and heat transfer is investigated by comparing the numerical results with experimental data. It is found that SST k-ω model gives better predictions with moderate computational cost. Using SST k-ω model, the effect of Reynolds number (Re) on the average Nusselt number (Nua) of target plate is examined at Z/d = 6 (Z/d is the gap between nozzle exit and target surface).


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