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Main Authors: Cao, Junxian, Ye, Mengqi, Li, Haiwang, Wang, Tianyou, Che, Zhizhao
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05130
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author Cao, Junxian
Ye, Mengqi
Li, Haiwang
Wang, Tianyou
Che, Zhizhao
author_facet Cao, Junxian
Ye, Mengqi
Li, Haiwang
Wang, Tianyou
Che, Zhizhao
contents Mist/air two-phase flow is a promising cooling technique for many applications such as internal cooling of gas turbine blades. A significant enhancement of heat transfer can be achieved with a low mass fraction of droplets by utilizing the latent heat of the droplets. Using newly designed atomizers to accurately control the mist droplets, this study experimentally explores the heat transfer performance of mist/air flow in a high-temperature channel with a maximum temperature of 880 K. The effects of the mist/air mass ratio, droplet size, Reynolds number, and wall heat flux are studied. The results show that the cooling performance of the test section can be significantly improved by even adding a small amount of droplets. Considering mist droplets of different sizes, larger droplets can cause more remarkable temperature reduction, while smaller droplets can improve the uniformity of temperature distribution. For large droplets, the cooling effect in the upstream is more obvious than that in the downstream due to the interaction between the wall and the droplets, and with the increase of mist/air mass ratio, the area with obvious cooling extends downstream. The performance of mist/air cooling is tested by increasing the heat flux until the maximum temperature at the outlet reaches a predetermined value. Compared with air-only cooling, the increment in the wall heat flux by the mist/air cooling with a mass ratio of 3% can be up to 18.4%.
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spellingShingle Heat transfer enhancement by mist/air two-phase flow in a high-temperature channel
Cao, Junxian
Ye, Mengqi
Li, Haiwang
Wang, Tianyou
Che, Zhizhao
Fluid Dynamics
Mist/air two-phase flow is a promising cooling technique for many applications such as internal cooling of gas turbine blades. A significant enhancement of heat transfer can be achieved with a low mass fraction of droplets by utilizing the latent heat of the droplets. Using newly designed atomizers to accurately control the mist droplets, this study experimentally explores the heat transfer performance of mist/air flow in a high-temperature channel with a maximum temperature of 880 K. The effects of the mist/air mass ratio, droplet size, Reynolds number, and wall heat flux are studied. The results show that the cooling performance of the test section can be significantly improved by even adding a small amount of droplets. Considering mist droplets of different sizes, larger droplets can cause more remarkable temperature reduction, while smaller droplets can improve the uniformity of temperature distribution. For large droplets, the cooling effect in the upstream is more obvious than that in the downstream due to the interaction between the wall and the droplets, and with the increase of mist/air mass ratio, the area with obvious cooling extends downstream. The performance of mist/air cooling is tested by increasing the heat flux until the maximum temperature at the outlet reaches a predetermined value. Compared with air-only cooling, the increment in the wall heat flux by the mist/air cooling with a mass ratio of 3% can be up to 18.4%.
title Heat transfer enhancement by mist/air two-phase flow in a high-temperature channel
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05130