Abstract
The influence of fluid thermophysical properties on the heat transfer from confined and submerged impinging jets is experimentally investigated. Results from previous studies at low and high Prandtl numbers (using air and Fluorinert liquid FC-77, respectively) are supplemented by new experiments for an intermediate Prandtl number (using water). Local heat transfer coeficients are obtained from a discrete heat source under axisymmetric confined and submerged jets. The parameter ranges studied include: orifice diameters of 1.59±12.7 mm, turbulent-flow Reynolds numbers of 4000±23 000, and orifice to heat-source spacings of 1±5 jet diameters. Generalized correlations for heat transfer rates are proposed based on these results, and are valid over the range of coolant Prandtl numbers from 0.7 to 25.2.
Keywords
Jets, liquid jets, air jets, confined impingement, design correlations, Prandtl-number effects, thermophysical-property effects
Date of this Version
1-1-2001
Published in:
C.-Y. Li and S. V. Garimella, “Prandtl-Number Effects and Generalized Correlations for Confined and Submerged Jet Impingement,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 44, No. 18, pp. 3471-3480, 2001.