Jet Reynolds Number Nozzle-Plate Spacing
Jet Reynolds Number Nozzle-Plate Spacing
Jet Reynolds Number Nozzle-Plate Spacing
Gikku Tom, Post Graduate student, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Mar Athanasius
College of Engineering, Kothamangalam - 686 666
Abstract
Jet impingement provides an effective means for high heat/mass transfer and it has been
widely applied in various industrial processes such as cooling of gas turbines and electronic
components, processing of food, drying of textiles and wood and so on. In this study, the
effect of jet Reynolds number and nozzle-plate spacing on the single round air jet
impingement heat transfer rates will be studied both experimentally as well as numerically.
Problem definition
A steady, incompressible, air jet at 306 K is being issued through a 10 mm diameter orifice
plate attached at the bottom of a plenum chamber on to a 120 mm * 120 mm flat heat plate
which is placed at a certain distance from the orifice plate. It is required to cool the heat plate
which is producing a uniform heat flux of 3472.22 W/m2.
Orifice plate
(120 mm * 120 mm * 10 mm)
Nozzle - plate
spacing
Computational tools
Modeling FreeCAD
Meshing snappyHexMesh utility in OpenFOAM
OpenFOAM (version 6)