Local Convective Heat Transfer From a Constant Heat Flux Flat Plate Cooled by Synthetic Air Jets

2006 ◽  
Vol 128 (10) ◽  
pp. 990-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Gillespie ◽  
W. Z. Black ◽  
C. Rinehart ◽  
A. Glezer

The effects of a small-scale, rectangular synthetic air jet on the local convective heat transfer from a flat, heated surface were measured experimentally. The synthetic jet impinges normal to the surface and induces small-scale motions by zero-net mass flux, time-periodic entrainment, and ejection of ambient air at frequencies whose periods are far higher than the characteristic thermal time scale. The velocity field between the jet orifice and the target plate is measured in planar cross sections using particle image velocimetry and is related to the local heat transfer from the plate. The present work suggests that synthetic jets can lead to substantial enhancement of the local heat transfer from heated surfaces by strong mixing that disrupts the surface thermal boundary layer. The dependence of the local heat transfer coefficient on the primary parameters of jet motion is characterized over a range of operating conditions.

1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. O. Popiel ◽  
L. Boguslawski

The results of an experimental investigation of local convective heat transfer from the surface of a rotating disk in an impinging free round air jet, issuing from a long tube, are reported. Using a transient heat transfer method applied to the ring-shaped h-calorimeter (as a single lumped capacitance element) measurements of convective heat transfer rates were made for five impingement radius (fixed) to tube diameter ratios for a range of rotational and jet Reynolds numbers. In the pure impingement-dominated regime, where the rotation of the disk does not show an effect on heat transfer, the velocity ratio is ur/uj ≤ (1 − 2 × 10−4 Re2/3) (1 − 0.18 r/d), where ur = tangential velocity of the disk at the jet impingement radius r, uj = average exit velocity of jet, and d = jet tube diameter. In this regime, the local heat transfer on the rotating disk can be strongly enhanced by jet impingement. For ur/uj ⪞ 5, the effect of the jet impingement on heat transfer can be neglected. The discussion of the heat transfer results has been supported by smoke flow visualization.


Author(s):  
Minking K. Chyu ◽  
Unal Uysal ◽  
Pei-Wen Lee

The present study explores the internal heat transfer in a triple-cavity cooling structure with a ribbed lip for a turbine blade trailing edge. The design consists of two impingement cavities, two sets of crossover holes, a third cavity and an exit slot with eleven ribs attached to it. Local heat transfer in each subregion is determined. Results indicate that the highest heat transfer occurs in the second impingement cavity. The exit slot area between the ribs is identified as a region of low heat transfer in the overall design. A comparison with enhancement induced by arrays of pin fins and fins of other geometries reveals that the triple-cavity design represents a lesser quality cooling scheme in the range of Reynolds numbers tested. Further improvement of the convective heat transfer at the exit slot with either film cooling, or different rib geometries appears to be essential to make the triple-cavity strategy superior to those of the traditional approaches for cooling of blade trailing edge.


1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 212-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Piao ◽  
E. G. Hauptmann ◽  
M. Iqbal

Forced convective heat transfer in a cross-corrugated channel solar air heater has been studied experimentally using air as a working fluid. The channel was formed by two transversely positioned corrugated sheets and two flat thermally insulated side walls. One corrugated sheet was heated by a radiant heater, while the other was thermally insulated. The fluid velocity and temperature, and the wall temperature and the local heat flux across the heated corrugated sheet were measured for a variety of operating flow rates. Experimental results for the channel geometry have yielded the correlation Nu=0.0743(Re)0.76. This heat-transfer coefficient is about 2.8 times that of a smooth flat channel. The experiments showed that local heat transfer rate was smaller on the valley of the corrugation than that on the peak. The ratio of the local heat transfer rates on the two locations was related to the Reynolds number.


Author(s):  
Saeid Vafaei ◽  
Dongsheng Wen

This work reports an experimental study of convective heat transfer of aqueous alumina nanofluids in a horizontal microchannel under laminar flow condition. The variation of local heat transfer coefficients, in both entrance and developed flow regime, is obtained as a function of axial distance. The heat transfer coefficient of nanofluids is found to be dependent upon not only nanoparticle concentration but also mass flow rate. Different to the behavior in conventional-sized channels, the major heat transfer coefficient enhancement is observed in fully developed region in microchannels. Discussions of the results suggest that the heterogeneous nature of nanoparticle flow should be considered.


1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Zumbrunnen ◽  
M. Aziz

An experimental investigation has been performed to study the effect of flow intermittency on convective heat transfer to a planar water jet impinging on a constant heat flux surface. Enhanced heat transfer was achieved by periodically restarting an impinging flow and thereby forcing renewal of the hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layers. Although convective heat transfer was less effective during a short period when flow was interrupted, high heat transfer rates, which immediately follow initial wetting, prevailed above a threshold frequency, and a net enhancement occurred. Experiments with intermittent flows yielded enhancements in convective heat transfer coefficients of nearly a factor of two, and theoretical considerations suggest that higher enhancements can be achieved by increasing the frequency of the intermittency. Enhancements need not result in an increased pressure drop within a flow system, since flow interruptions can be induced beyond a nozzle exit. Experimental results are presented for both the steady and intermittent impinging jets at distances up to seven jet widths from the stagnation line. A theoretical model of the transient boundary layer response is used to reveal parameters that govern the measured enhancements. A useful correlation is also provided of local heat transfer results for steadily impinging jets.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertha Lai

The free convective heat transfer in a double-glazed window with between-panes Venetian blinds was measured using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. A vertical cavity with differentially heated/cooled flat plates was set up with an internal blind at slat angles of ø=0⁰, ø=45⁰, and ø=90⁰ from the horizontal and tip-to-plate spacings of s=2mm, s=4mm, and s=8mm. Heat transfer measurements were taken with air as the test fluid and at Rayleigh numbers of Ra~4.5x10(4), RA~6.7X10(4), and Ra~13.1x10(4), based on cavity widths of W=28.7mm, W=32.7mm, and W=40.7mm, respectively. Finite fringe interferograms were used to obtain local and average heat transfer data. Infinite fringe interferograms were taken to visualize the temperature field within the cavity. A preliminary numerical study of the experimental geometry was also conducted. The results show that there was substantial variation in local heat transfer rates caused by the presence of the between-panes blind inside the window cavity. In general, experimental average Nusselt numbers were found to be lower than those of a cavity without blinds.


Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
David S.-K. Ting ◽  
Steve Ray

Abstract A 12.7 mm wide flexible rectangular strip, made from 0.1 mm-thick aluminum sheet, is experimentally explored as a vortical flow generator for promoting heat convection from a flat plate in a wind tunnel. The strip is positioned normal to the freestream with an incoming velocity of 10 m/s, resulting in a Reynolds number, based on the strip width, of 8,500. The influence of the height of the flexible strip on the convective heat transfer enhancement is of interest. Three strip heights, 25.4 mm, 38.1 mm and 50.8 mm, were investigated. The heat transfer results are expressed in terms of Nusselt number, Nu, normalized by the unperturbed reference Nu0. The shortest, 25.4 mm high flexible strip resulted in the highest peak and overall heat transfer enhancement. The distribution of the local heat transfer enhancement is found to correlate well with the turbulent flow motion detailed using a triple-sensor hot-wire anemometer. Pointedly, the heat transfer rate is most elevated when the local flow is moving toward the hot plate, sweeping across a stretch of the surface before moving away from it. These effective convective motions are most effectively generated by the vortices produced by the shortest strip.


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1231-1240
Author(s):  
Murat Tekelioğlu

An experimental method was proposed to assess the natural and forced convective heat transfer coefficients on highly conductive bodies. Experiments were performed at air velocities of 0m/s, 4.0m/s, and 5.4m/s, and comparisons were made between the current results and available literature. These experiments were extended to arbitrary-shape bodies. External flow conditions were maintained throughout. In the proposed method, in determination of the surface convective heat transfer coefficients, flow condition is immaterial, i.e., either laminar or turbulent. With the present method, it was aimed to acquire the local heat transfer coefficients on any arbitrary conductive shape. This method was intended to be implemented by the heat transfer engineer to identify the local heat transfer rates with local hot spots. Finally, after analyzing the proposed experimental results, appropriate decisions can be made to control the amount of the convective heat transfer off the surface. Limited mass transport was quantified on the cooled plate.


1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 641-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching Jen Chen ◽  
Tzong-Shyan Wung

The convective heat transfer and pressure drop in flow past two types of tube array are solved numerically by the Finite Analytic Method in this investigation. The tube arrays considered are an in-line tube array and a staggered tube array with longitudinal and transverse pitch of two. The flow field solution is obtained and analyzed in Part I of the study. In the present Part II, the temperature field, heat transfer characteristics, and pressure drop are investigated. The fluid and tubes are considered to be at the same temperature, except for the array tube, which is heated or cooled. The solution domain covers three pitches of tube arrays in order to simulate accurately the non-periodic behavior of the temperature field downstream of the heated tube. In general, the heat transfer in a staggered array of tubes is found to be higher than that in an in-lined array of tubes. However, the pressure drop in a staggered array arrangement is also higher. Local heat transfer varies between in-line and staggered tube arrays and depends on Reynolds number and Prandtl number. At high Reynolds number, the local heat transfer tends to peak at the upstream surface of the heated tube but away from the stagnation point and becomes minimum at the separation point. Heat transfer in recirculation zones are, in general, small.


1985 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Hessami ◽  
A. Pollard ◽  
R. D. Rowe ◽  
D. W. Ruth

Steady laminar natural convective heat transfer in a horizontal annulus with a large radii ratio (R) of 11.4 (and inner-cylinder diameter Di of 1.27 cm) has been investigated. Experimental data for air, glycerin, and mercury in the ranges of 0.023 ≤ Pr ≤ 10,000 and 0.03 ≤ GrDi ≤ 3 × 106 are reported. The influence of the variation of fluid properties as compared to the usual assumption of constant fluid properties has been explored numerically for air and glycerin. The heat transfer computations for air do not change with variation of fluid properties, whereas for glycerin significant differences in the local heat transfer distributions and flow patterns are observed. The experimental data have been correlated with some other data from the literature for smaller values of R, and it has been shown that the heat transfer from the inner cylinder should be almost the same as that in an infinite medium when R ≥ 10.


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