Direct Numerical Simulation of an Impinging Jet at Re=10,000

Scientific image showing mesh at the walls of the impinging jet and the pipe at H/D=2.
Image: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

The heat transfer in the stagnation region of an impinging jet at given jet to distance ratio, Re-number and Temperature ratio also depend on the turbulent inflow characteristics. Using Direct Numerical Simulations, the Nusselt-number distribution as well as the turbulent statistics close to the heated wall have been investigated. At first a calculation has been done comparing the results with published DNS and experiments from Dairay et al. (2015). Since in their paper not all necessary turbulence values were given, the missing values (e.g. turbulent length scale) had to be adjusted in order to fit their results. A good agreement has been found of our calculations with their DNS and experiments.

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Principal Investigator

Franco Magagnato

Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology