Numerical Simulations of High Prandtl Number Liquid Jets Impinging on a Flat Plate

Poubeau, Adele; Vinay, Guillaume; Kekelia, Bidzina; Bennion, Kevin

doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2023.123889

Numerical Simulations of High Prandtl Number Liquid Jets Impinging on a Flat Plate

Journal Article · Thu Feb 02 04:00:00 EST 2023 · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2023.123889· OSTI ID:1958147

Poubeau, Adele; Vinay, Guillaume; ; Bennion, Kevin

In this work, 3D simulations of oil jets impinging on a flat, heated wall are presented. The numerical setup uses the Volume of Fluid (VoF) method to model the two-phase flow. A careful grid definition across the liquid film, along with the use of the Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) approach allowed local heat transfer to be solved with fine resolution at the wall. Variations of liquid flow rate, liquid temperature and surface temperature allow to cover a wide range of local Reynolds and Prandtl numbers (226 < Re < 2850, 77 < Pr < 161). Resulting surface-averaged heat transfer compares very well with experimental measurements conducted in a previous study. In-depth analysis of the flow has identified expected features from the literature. In particular, the impact of jet axial velocity profiles on the heat transfer distribution in the stagnation zone was clearly stated. The increase in heat transfer when warming the liquid film was also reproduced and explained by a decrease in oil viscosity and an increase in film velocity. All those effects were taken into account in correlations for stagnation and local values of Nusselt number. A grid sensitivity study was also conducted, showing that if the grid solving the thermal boundary layer in the stagnation zone can be coarsened without impacting local and surface-averaged predictions of heat transfer, a minimum resolution (2 to 3 cells) within the thermal boundary layer is however required for an accurate prediction of heat transfer.

Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Vehicle Technologies Office, Electric Drive Technologies Program

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1958147

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-5400-85373; MainId:86146; UUID:4a13ed32-f03f-4690-b395-8b27f419ba4c; MainAdminID:68802

Journal Information:: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal Name: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Vol. 205

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (28)

Experimental Investigation on Oil Spray Cooling With Hairpin Windings Liu, Chuan; Xu, Zeyuan; Gerada, David IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 67, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2019.2942563	journal	September 2020
Local heat transfer and recovery factor with impinging free-surface circular jets of transformer oil Ma, C. F.; Zheng, Q.; Ko, S. Y. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 40, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0017-9310(97)00054-9	journal	November 1997
Mass transfer in a nonuniform impinging jet: Part I. Stagnation flow-velocity and pressure distribution Scholtz, M. T.; Trass, Olev AIChE Journal, Vol. 16, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.690160117	journal	January 1970
Liquid jet Impingement Lienhard, John H. Annual Review of Heat Transfer, Vol. 6, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1615/AnnualRevHeatTransfer.v6.60	journal	January 1995
Convective Heat Transfer by Impingement of Circular Liquid Jets Liu, X.; Lienhard, J. H.; Lombara, J. S. Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 113, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2910604	journal	August 1991
The hydraulic jump in circular jet impingement and in other thin liquid films Liu, X.; Lienhard, J. H. Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 15, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00190950	journal	July 1993
Local convective heat transfer from a heated surface to an impinging, planar jet of water Vader, D. T.; Incropera, F. P.; Viskanta, R. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 34, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0017-9310(91)90110-Z	journal	March 1991
Prandtl-number effects and generalized correlations for confined and submerged jet impingement Li, Chin-Yuan; Garimella, Suresh V. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 44, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0017-9310(01)00003-5	journal	September 2001
Experimental Study of Systems and Oils for Direct Cooling of Electrical Machine Sindjui, Ralph; Zito, Gianluca; Zhang, Shimin Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Vol. 14, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4051934	journal	August 2021
Conjugate heat transfer between a laminar impinging liquid jet and a solid disk Wang, X. S.; Dagan, Z.; Jiji, L. M. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 32, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1016/0017-9310(89)90125-7	journal	November 1989
Volume of fluid (VOF) method for the dynamics of free boundaries Hirt, C. W.; Nichols, B. D. Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 39, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(81)90145-5	journal	January 1981
Measurements of flow structure in the radial layer of impinging free-surface liquid jets Stevens, J.; Webb, B. W. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 36, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1016/0017-9310(93)90055-B	journal	October 1993
The radial spread of a liquid jet over a horizontal plane Watson, E. J. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 20, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112064001367	journal	November 1964
Experimental and numerical study of piston thermal management using piston cooling jet Najafabadi, Mohammad Izadi; Mirsalim, Mostafa; Hosseini, Vahid Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Vol. 28, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-013-1183-7	journal	March 2014
A Numerical Study on the Hydrodynamics and heat Transfer of a Circular Liquid jet Impinging onto a Substrate Tong, Albert Y. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, Vol. 44, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1080/713838171	journal	July 2003
Local Heat Transfer Coefficients Under an Axisymmetric, Single-Phase Liquid Jet Stevens, J.; Webb, B. W. Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 113, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2910554	journal	February 1991
Free Jet Impingement Heat Transfer of a High Prandtl Number Fluid Under Conditions of Highly Varying Properties Leland, J. E.; Pais, M. R. Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 121, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2826020	journal	August 1999
Stagnation-Point Heat Transfer During Impingement of Laminar Liquid Jets: Analysis Including Surface Tension Liu, Xin; Gabour, L. A.; Lienhard, J. H. Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 115, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2910677	journal	February 1993
Heat Transfer Due to an Impinging Jet in a Confined Space Nasif, G.; Barron, R. M.; Balachandar, R. Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 136, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4028242	journal	August 2014
Analytical study on impingement heat transfer with single-phase free-surface circular liquid jets Ma, C. F.; Zhao, Y. H.; Masuoka, T. Journal of Thermal Science, Vol. 5, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02653234	journal	December 1996
An experimental study of local heat transfer using high Prandtl number liquid jets Renon, Clément; Fénot, Matthieu; Girault, Manuel International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 180 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121727	journal	December 2021
Heat transfer between a circular free impinging jet and a solid surface with non-uniform wall temperature or wall heat flux—1. Solution for the stagnation region Wang, X. S.; Dagan, Z.; Jiji, L. M. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 32, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1016/0017-9310(89)90034-3	journal	July 1989
Experimental study of oil cooling systems for electric motors Davin, Tanguy; Pellé, Julien; Harmand, Souad Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 75 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.10.060	journal	January 2015
Effect of Nozzle Configuration on Transport in the Stagnation Zone of Axisymmetric, Impinging Free-Surface Liquid Jets: Part 2—Local Heat Transfer Pan, Y.; Stevens, J.; Webb, B. W. Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 114, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2911896	journal	November 1992
On the circular hydraulic jump Brechet, Y.; Néda, Z. American Journal of Physics, Vol. 67, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19360	journal	August 1999
Numerical simulation of convective heat transfer to a radial free surface jet impinging on a hot solid Fujimoto, H.; Hatta, N.; Viskanta, R. Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 35, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s002310050323	journal	September 1999
Experimental study of the hydrodynamic and heat transfer of free liquid jet impinging a flat circular heated disk Baonga, J. B.; Louahlia-Gualous, H.; Imbert, M. Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 26, Issue 11-12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2005.11.001	journal	August 2006
Computational Modeling and Simulation of Nonisothermal Free-surface Flow of a Liquid Jet Impinging on a Heated Surface Edin, Berberović; Šefko, Šikalo Procedia Engineering, Vol. 100 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.01.349	journal	January 2015

Similar Records

Convective heat transfer by impingement of circular liquid jets

Journal Article · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991 · Journal of Heat Transfer (Transactions of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Series C); (United States) · OSTI ID:5568631

Effect of nozzle configuration on transport in the stagnation zone of axisymmetric, impinging free-surface liquid jets: Part 2-local heat transfer

Journal Article · Sat Oct 31 23:00:00 EST 1992 · Journal of Heat Transfer (Transactions of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Series C); (United States) · OSTI ID:5643452

Single-phase liquid jet impingement heat transfer

Journal Article · Sat Dec 30 23:00:00 EST 1995 · Advances in Heat Transfer · OSTI ID:241128

Related Subjects

ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION,ENERGY STORAGE
conjugate heat transfer
electric machine cooling
high Prandtl number
liquid jet impingement
volume of fluid

Numerical Simulations of High Prandtl Number Liquid Jets Impinging on a Flat Plate

Citation Formats

References (28)

Similar Records

Related Subjects