Convective heat transfer by impingement of circular liquid jets

Journal Article · Thu Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991 · Journal of Heat Transfer (Transactions of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Series C); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2910604· OSTI ID:5568631

Liu, X; Lienhard, J.H. V; Lombara, J S ^[1]

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1. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (United States)

The impingement of circular, liquid jets provides a convenient method of cooling surfaces. Here, jet impingement cooling of uniformly heated surfaces is investigated analytically and experimentally for stable, unsubmerged, uniform velocity laminar jets in the absence of phase change. Analytical and numerical predictions are developed for a laminar radial film flow. Experiments using undisturbed laminar jets were performed to determine local Nusselt numbers from the stagnation point to radii of up to 40 diameters. Turbulent transition in the film flow is observed experimentally at a certain radius. Beyond this transition radius, a separate turbulent analysis is constructed. Integral method results are compared to numerical results, and Prandtl number effects are investigated. The predictions are found to agree well with the measurements for both laminar and turbulent flow. Predictive formulae are recommended for the entire range of radii.

• OSTI ID: 5568631
• Journal Information: Journal of Heat Transfer (Transactions of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Series C); (United States), Journal Name: Journal of Heat Transfer (Transactions of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Series C); (United States) Vol. 113:3; ISSN 0022-1481; ISSN JHTRA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
420400* -- Engineering-- Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CALCULATION METHODS
COOLING
ENERGY TRANSFER
FLUID FLOW
HEAT TRANSFER
IMPINGEMENT
JETS
LAMINAR FLOW
LIQUID FLOW
MANUFACTURING
MASS TRANSFER
NUSSELT NUMBER
PRANDTL NUMBER
TURBULENT FLOW