NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF HEAT TRANSFER OVER A MOVING SURFACE DUE TO IMPINGING KNIFE-JETS

Turbulent flow field and heat transfer from an array of impinging horizontal knife jets on a moving surface have been investigated using large eddy simulation (LES) with a dynamic subgrid stress model. The surface velocity directed perpendicular to the jet plane is varied up to two times the jet velocity at the nozzle exit. Performance of a horizontal knife jet with an exit angle of 60° is compared with the standard axial jet. It has been observed that increasing surface motion reduces heat transfer for both types of jets. However, the amount of heat transfer from the knife jets is more than that from the axial jets when the surface velocity is within the order of half the jet velocity at the nozzle exit. For further increase in surface velocity, heat transfer from the knife jets is, however, less than that in the case of axial jets if the Reynolds number (Re) is low. For higher Re and higher surface velocity, the heat transfer from either type of jets is of comparable magnitude.