The study of flow and heat transfer characteristics of impinging jet array mounting air-induced duct

Abstract

Abstract. Impinging jet is widely employed in thermal industrial applications due to having high heat transfer coefficient in impingement region. One method to increase heat transfer on an impingement surface is to increase turbulence intensity in jet flow. The mounting of an airinduced duct at nozzle outlet is a passive method to increase entrainment air resulting on increasing turbulence intensity. The aim of this research is to study flow and heat transfer characteristics of array of impinging jets mounting air-induced ducts. The investigation model was jets discharging from pipe nozzle having an inner diameter of d=17.2 mm and a length of 200 mm. Nozzle arrangement were inline configuration having 5 rows x 5 columns. A jet-to-jet distance (S) was S=6d, 8d and a jet-to-plate distance (H) was H=6d. The inner diameter (D) and the length (L) of the air-induced ducts were D=4d and L=4d, respectively. The Reynolds number was fixed at Re=20,000. In addition, the impinging jets without mounting the airinduced ducts were also investigated for benchmarking with the case of mounting the airinduced ducts. In the study, a thin foil technique was used to measure heat transfer on the impingement surface, and a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) using ANSYS, Fluent (V.15.0) was also adopted. The results showed that the effect of mounting air-induced duct can enhance entrainment air into the jet flow resulting on increasing of heat transfer of impinging jets on target surface, and the effects of mounting air-induced duct on increasing heat transfer in case of larger jet-to-jet distance (S/d=8) was more effective than that of smaller jet-to-jet distance (S/d=6).

Characterization of Convective Transfer of Heat by Air Impingement using Single Swirling Jet with Insertion of Twisted Tapes by Computational Fluid Dynamics

“…The thermo chromic liquid crystal is one out of the various methods. That technique is implemented by Yeranee, K (2017) [8]. Different experiments were conducted at same distance between nozzle and plate at L=4D to study the characteristics of flow and transfer of heat by a jet of swirl impingement.…”