Simulation of Laminar Slot Jets Impinging on a Moving Surface

Abstract

Laminar flow and heat transfer on a moving surface due to a bank of impinging slot jets have been numerically investigated. Two types of jet, namely axial and knife-jet with an exit angle of 60 deg were considered. The surface velocity up to two times the jet velocity at the nozzle exit was imposed on the impinging surface. It has been observed that while with increasing velocity of the impinging surface, the total heat transfer reduces; the distribution pattern becomes more uniform. For the same amount of mass and momentum flux at the nozzle exit, heat transfer from the axial jet is considerably higher than that from the vectored jets at all surface velocities considered. It was found that the local heat transfer over the surface for the case of the axial jet and the knife-jet scales with Re0.5 and Re0.55, respectively.