Local Thermal Measurements of Impinging Liquid Jets With an Angled Confining Wall for Power Electronics Cooling

Author(s):  
John F. Maddox ◽  
Roy W. Knight ◽  
Sushil H. Bhavnani

The local surface temperature, heat flux, heat transfer coefficient, and Nusselt number were measured for an inline array of circular, normal jets of single-phase, liquid water impinging on a copper block with a common outlet for spent flow, and an experimental 2-D surface map was obtained by translating the jet array relative to the sensors. The effects of variation in jet height, jet pitch, confining wall angle, and average jet Reynolds number were investigated. A strong interaction between the effects of the geometric parameters was observed, and a 5° confining wall was seen to be an effective method of managing the spent flow for jet impingement cooling of power electronics. The maximum average heat transfer coefficient of 13,100W=m2K and average Nusselt number of 67.7 were measured at an average jet Reynolds number of 14,000.

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Maddox ◽  
Roy W. Knight ◽  
Sushil H. Bhavnani

The local surface temperature, heat flux, heat transfer coefficient, and Nusselt number were measured for an inline array of circular, normal jets of single-phase, liquid water impinging on a copper block with a common outlet for spent flow, and an experimental two-dimensional (2D) surface map was obtained by translating the jet array relative to the sensors. The effects of variation in jet height, jet pitch, confining wall angle, and average jet Reynolds number were investigated. A strong interaction between the effects of the geometric parameters was observed, and a 5 deg confining wall was seen to be an effective method of managing the spent flow for jet impingement cooling of power electronics. The maximum average heat transfer coefficient of 13,100 W/m2 K and average Nusselt number of 67.7 were measured at an average jet Reynolds number of 14,000.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 811-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.-S. Hsieh ◽  
J.-T. Huang ◽  
C.-F. Liu

The influence of rotation and jet mass flow rate on the local heat transfer coefficient for a single confined impinging round jet with a fixed jet-to-wall spacing of H/d = 5 was studied for the jet Reynolds number from 6500 to 26,000 and the rotational Reynolds number from 0 to 112,000. The local heat transfer coefficient along the surface is measured and the effect of the rotation on the stagnation (peak) point, local and average Nusselt number, is presented and discussed. Furthermore, a correlation was developed for the average Nusselt number in terms of the parameters of Rej and ReΩ. In general, the combined jet impingement and rotation effect are shown to affect the heat transfer response. Rotation decreases the average Nusselt number values from 15 to 25 percent in outward and inward radial flow, respectively. Finally, comparisons of the present data with existing results for multijets with rotation were also made.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunkyraj Khangembam ◽  
Dushyant Singh

Experimental investigation on heat transfer mechanism of air–water mist jet impingement cooling on a heated cylinder is presented. The target cylinder was electrically heated and was maintained under the boiling temperature of water. Parametric studies were carried out for four different values of mist loading fractions, Reynolds numbers, and nozzle-to-surface spacings. Reynolds number, Rehyd, defined based on the hydraulic diameter, was varied from 8820 to 17,106; mist loading fraction, f ranges from 0.25% to 1.0%; and nozzle-to-surface spacing, H/d was varied from 30 to 60. The increment in the heat transfer coefficient with respect to air-jet impingement is presented along with variation in the heat transfer coefficient along the axial and circumferential direction. It is observed that the increase in mist loading greatly increases the heat transfer rate. Increment in the heat transfer coefficient at the stagnation point is found to be 185%, 234%, 272%, and 312% for mist loading fraction 0.25%, 0.50%, 0.75%, and 1.0%, respectively. Experimental study shows identical increment in stagnation point heat transfer coefficient with increasing Reynolds number, with lowest Reynolds number yielding highest increment. Stagnation point heat transfer coefficient increased 263%, 259%, 241%, and 241% as compared to air-jet impingement for Reynolds number 8820, 11,493, 14,166, and 17,106, respectively. The increment in the heat transfer coefficient is observed with a decrease in nozzle-to-surface spacing. Stagnation point heat transfer coefficient increased 282%, 248%, 239%, and 232% as compared to air-jet impingement for nozzle-to-surface spacing of 30, 40, 50, and 60, respectively, is obtained from the experimental analysis. Based on the experimental results, a correlation for stagnation point heat transfer coefficient increment is also proposed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 819 ◽  
pp. 74-77
Author(s):  
Mohamad Nor Musa ◽  
Mohamad Faizal Fauzi

Jet impingement is one of cooling method used in order to achieve high heat transfer coefficient and widely used in industry applications such as drying of textile and film, glass and plastic sheets, cooling of electronic equipment, and heat treatment of metals. In this research, it focused on the effectiveness of the jet impingement cooling system on the convex surface based on mass blowing rate and nozzle exit to surface parameters. The scope of experiment research encompasses are convex surface made of aluminum alloy and diameter 12.5cm. For mass blowing rate parameters, it use ʋjet = 1.98m/s, 3.03m/s, 4.97m/s and 6.00m/s which has Reynolds number range from 643 until 1946. Nozzle exit to surface distance,s/d = 4.0, 8.0 and 12.0. In this experiment model, a major components that involved are a compressor, nozzle, convex surface model, K thermocouple and heater. For the result of the experiment, it is based on the data obtain through a heat transfer coefficient and Nusselt number which the plotted graph focus on the space spacing and Reynolds number parameters. For the graph Nusselt number versus s/d at stagnation point c/d=0, it shown that when the Reynolds number increase, the Nusselt number also increase. In term of effectiveness, the s/d=12.0 has a good effectiveness jet impingement cooling system. For the graph of Nusselt number versus Reynolds at stagnation point, c/d=0, as Reynolds number increase, the Nusselt number increase too. From this experiment the better cooling effect is at Reynolds number, Re=1946. Thus, it can conclude that, effectiveness for jet impingement cooling system on the convex surface occurs at the highest Reynolds number.


Author(s):  
Weihong Li ◽  
Xueying Li ◽  
Jing Ren ◽  
Hongde Jiang ◽  
Li Yang ◽  
...  

This study comprehensively illustrates the effect of Reynolds number, hole spacing, jet-to-target distance and hole inclination on the convective heat transfer performance of an impinging jet array. Highly resolved heat transfer coefficient distributions on the target plate are obtained utilizing transient liquid crystal over a range of Reynolds numbers varying between 5,000 and 25,000. Effect of streamwise and spanwise jet-to-jet spacing (X/D, Y/D: 4–8) and jet-to-target plate distance (Z/D: 0.75–3) are employed composing a test matrix of 36 different geometries. Additionally, the effect of hole inclination (θ: 0°–40°) on the heat transfer coefficient is investigated. Optical hole spacing arrangements and impingement distance are pointed out to maximize the area-averaged Nusselt number and minimize the amount of cooling air. Also included is a new correlation, based on that of Florschuetz et al., to predict row-averaged Nusselt number. The new correlation is capable to cover low Z/D∼0.75 and presents better prediction of row-averaged Nusselt number, which proves to be an effective impingement design tool.


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):  
Md Insiat Islam Rabby ◽  
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Farzad Hossain ◽  
Raihan M M ◽  
Afrina Khan Piya ◽  
...  

Enhancing the heat transfer rate is highly required to remove excessive heat load from the heat transfer apparatus, which may cause massive damage to the equipment. Thus, increment of heat transfer area is one of the prime solutions for this issue. The increment of heat transfer area can be done by enhancing the pipe wall and incorporating nanoparticles with working fluids because nanoparticles showed much faster heat dispersion due to a vast surface area for heat transfer and increased thermal conductivity. Also, small molecules of nanoparticles are allowed for free movement and thus micro-convection, promoting high thermal conductivity. Higher thermal conductivity is mainly the result of a higher heat transfer rate. Therefore, in this study, a saw-type corrugated tube was considered along with the SiC-water nanofluid as the working fluid to determine the improvement of laminar convective heat transfer in terms of the Nusselt number, heat transfer coefficient, and pressure loss. The result demonstrated that by increasing the Reynolds number, the Nusselt number, heat transfer coefficient, and pressure loss were increased significantly with the enhancement of SiC-water concentration. At a Reynolds number of 1200, the maximum increment of Nusselt number in comparison to the base fluid was 9.15% when the corrugated pipe was considered. Meanwhile, the maximum improvement of heat transfer coefficient for SiC-water nanofluid in comparison to the base fluid was 37.66%.


Author(s):  
Rabijit Dutta ◽  
Anupam Dewan ◽  
Balaji Srinivasan

We present a numerical investigation of hydrodynamic and heat transfer behaviors for Al2O3–water nanofluids for laminar and turbulent confined slot jets impingement heat transfer at nanoparticle volume fractions of 3% and 6%. A comparison of the nanofluid with the base fluid has been performed for the same Reynolds number and same jet inlet velocity. A single-phase fluid approach was used to model the nanofluid. Further, the thermo-physical properties of nanofluid were calculated using a recent approach. For the same value of Reynolds number, maximum increase in the average heat transfer coefficient at the impingement plate was found to be approximately 27% and 22% for laminar and turbulent slot impingements, respectively, for 6% volume fraction of nanofluid as compared to that of water. However, the pumping power curve showed a steep increase with the volume fraction with nearly five times increase in the pumping power observed for 6% volume fraction nanofluid. Further, the energy-based performance was assessed with the help of the performance evaluation criterion (PEC). PEC values indicate that nanofluids do not necessarily represent the most efficient coolants for this type of application. Moreover, at the same jet inlet velocity, a reduction in the heat transfer coefficient of 7% and 20% was observed for nanofluid as compared to base fluid for laminar and turbulent flows, respectively.


Author(s):  
Ahmad K. Sleiti ◽  
J. S. Kapat

Experiments on triangular and rectangular array jet impingement and single phase spray cooling have been performed to determine the effect of both cooling techniques on heat transfer coefficient and the coolant mass flux required for a given cooling load. Experiments were performed with circular orifices and nozzles for different H/D values from 1.5 to 26 and Reynolds number range of 219 to 837, which is quite lower than the ranges used in widely used correlations. The coolant used was polyalphaolefin. For the custom fabricated orifices, commercial nozzles and conditions used in this study, both cooling techniques showed enhancement of heat transfer coefficient as H/D increases to a certain limit after which it starts to decrease. The heat transfer coefficient always increases with Reynolds number. In keeping with previous studies, single-phase spray cooling technique can provide the same heat transfer coefficient as jets at a slightly lower mass flux, but with a higher pressure head.


1970 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asharful Islam ◽  
A. K. Mozumder

Heat transfer performance of T-section internal fins in a circular tube has been experimentally investigated. The T-finned tube was heated by electricity and was cooled by fully developed turbulent air. Inside wall temperatures and pressure drop along the axial distance of the test section at steady state condition were measured for different flows having Reynolds number ranging from 2x104 to 5x104 for both smooth and finned tubes. From the measured data, heat transfer coefficient, Nusselt number and friction factor were calculated. From the measured and calculated values, heat transfer characteristics and fluid flow characteristics of the finned tube are explained; the performance of the finned tube is also evaluated. For finned tube, friction factor on an average was 5 times higher and heat transfer coefficient was 2 times higher than those for smooth tube for similar flow conditions. The finned tube, however, produces significant heat transfer enhancement. Key Words: Heat Transfer, Internal Fin, Reynolds Number, Nusselt Number, Pressure Drop. doi: 10.3329/jme.v40i1.3473 Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. ME40, No. 1, June 2009 54-62


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