HEAT TRANSFER PREDICTION IN A SHALLOW CAVITY EFFECT OF INCOMING FLOW CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract

This study deals numerically with a heat transfer in a turbulent flow over a shallow cavity. Two different configurations of the incoming flow are considered: a boundary layer flow and a plane wall jet flow, in order to examine the wall jet outer layer effect on the heat transfer. This layer is an important additional turbulence source in the wall jet flow. Reynolds number and turbulence intensity effects were investigated in the boundary layer incoming flow case. The cavity depth to nozzle height ratio effect was examined in the wall jet incoming flow case. The numerical approach is based on k-ω standard turbulence model. This study reveals that the heat transfer is very sensitive to the incoming flow characteristics. The turbulence intensity increase accelerates the reattachment of the shear layer at the cavity floor and enhances the heat transfer. The reattachment phenomenon seems to be less affected by the Reynolds number. However, an increase in this parameter ameliorates the heat transfer. It was also observed a heat transfer enhancement in the wall jet incoming flow case as compared to that of a boundary layer. Likewise, it was found that the augmentation of the cavity depth to the jet nozzle height ratio improves even more the heat transfer. The maximum heat transfer occurs upstream of the reattachment.

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Dates

  • Submission Date2014-01-19
  • Revision Date1970-01-01
  • Acceptance Date2014-07-17
  • Online Date2014-08-03

DOI Reference

10.2298/TSCI140119093M

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