International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.37, No.13, 1867-1875, 1994
Laminar-Flow and Heat-Transfer from Multiple Impinging Slot Jets with an Inclined Confinement Surface
Results of numerical simulation of two-dimensional flow field and heat transfer due to laminar heated multiple slot jets discharging normally into a converging confined channel are presented. A control volume-based finite difference method was employed to solve the governing mass, momentum and energy equations. To handle the complexity of the geometry a program was developed using a non-orthogonal body-fitted coordinate system. A fully staggered grid system was generated using the solution to a set of elliptic grid generation equations. The parameters studied were : the jet Reynolds number (600 < Re < 1000), and the angle of inclination of the upper surface (0-degrees < theta < 20-degrees). Inclination of the confined surface so as to accelerate the exhaust flow was found to level the Nusselt number distribution on the impingement surface.