Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol.39, No.2, 98-106, 2018
Numerical Analysis of Heat Transfer from a Moving Surface Due to Impingement of Slot Jets
Heat transfer from a moving surface with uniform wall temperature due to impingement of series of slot jets has been investigated numerically. In the present paper, transition-shear stress transport model has been used for numerical simulations, which can predict the heat transfer in laminar as well as turbulent flows. This model is adopted here to study the transport phenomenon and predict the transition from laminar to turbulent flow seamlessly under different surface velocities. The present model with stationary surface is validated with the correlation given by Martin for series of slot jets. It has also shown good agreement with existing data for both laminar and turbulent slot jets, and is further studied to understand the heat transfer under wide range of flow conditions and the effect of surface velocity on flow regime. The range of Reynolds number is from 100 to 5,000, whereas surface velocity varied up to six times the jet velocity at the nozzle exit. It has been observed that at high surface velocities the heat transfer from the moving wall is more than stationary case. The transition from laminar to turbulent regime is found to be starting at a Reynolds number of 400 and turns completely turbulent at a Reynolds number of 3,000. Q-criterion is used to confirm the transition zone by observing the breaking of vortices at higher Reynolds number.