Numerical simulation of three-dimensional laminar, square twin-jet impingement on a flat plate, flow structure, and heat transfer

Abstract

The flow and heat transfer characteristics of impinging laminar square twin jets have been investigated numerically through the solution of three-dimensional Navier-Stokes and energy equations in a steady state. The simulations have been carried out for jet-to-jet spacings of 4, 6, and 8 and for nozzle-exit-to-plate distances between 0.25D and 5D. The calculated results show that the flow structure of square twin jets impinging on a heated plate is strongly affected by the jet-to-plate distance. In addition, for very small jet-to-plate distances (L-z approximate to0.25D), no upwash fountain flow can form at the collision point where the jets are merely diverted in the transverse direction. For such nozzle-to-plate distances the wall jet fills the whole gap between the plates with no vortex motion around the twin jets.