Three-dimensional numerical study of laminar confined slot jet impingement cooling using slurry of nano-encapsulated phase change material

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• 作者：M. Mohib Ur Rehman ; Z. G. Qu ; R. P. Fu
• 关键词：Nano ; encapsulated phase change material ; heat transfer enhancement ; confined slot jet impingement
• 刊名：Journal of Thermal Science
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：25
• 期：5
• 页码：431-439
• 全文大小：987 KB
• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Mechanics, Fluids and Thermodynamics
  Engineering Fluid Dynamics
  Engineering Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena
  Chinese Library of Science
  
• 出版者：Science Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH
• ISSN：1993-033X
• 卷排序：25

文摘

This Article presents a three dimensional numerical model investigating thermal performance and hydrodynamics features of the confined slot jet impingement using slurry of Nano Encapsulated Phase Change Material (NEPCM) as a coolant. The slurry is composed of water as a base fluid and n-octadecane NEPCM particles with mean diameter of 100nm suspended in it. A single phase fluid approach is employed to model the NEPCM slurry.The thermo physical properties of the NEPCM slurry are computed using modern approaches being proposed recently and governing equations are solved with a commercial Finite Volume based code. The effects of jet Reynolds number varying from 100 to 600 and particle volume fraction ranging from 0% to 28% are considered. The computed results are validated by comparing Nusselt number values at stagnation point with the previously published results with water as working fluid. It was found that adding NEPCM to the base fluid results with considerable amount of heat transfer enhancement.The highest values of heat transfer coefficients are observed at H/W=4 and C_m=0.28. However, due to the higher viscosity of slurry compared with the base fluid, the slurry can produce drastic increase in pressure drop of the system that increases with NEPCM particle loading and jet Reynolds number.