Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on jet impingement heat transfer.
The chapter describes the applications and physics of the flow and heat transfer …

The industries utilize fluid heating and cooling in various applications such as production,
power generation, electronics, and transportation. Many techniques have been …

An eddy-viscosity turbulence model employing three additional transport equations is
presented and applied to a number of transitional flow test cases. The model is based on the …

The paper proposes a novel wall-function formulation applicable to any RANS turbulence
model. It is based on the assumption of wall layer universality, applied to the entire model …

In order to gain a better insight into flow, vortical and turbulence structure and their
correlation with the local heat transfer in impinging flows, we performed large-eddy …

Uses of impinging jet devices for heat transfer are described, with a focus on cooling
applications within turbine systems. Numerical simulation techniques and results are …

Nanofluids, because of their enhanced heat transfer capability as compared to normal
water/glycol/oil based fluids, offer the engineer opportunities for development in areas …

Heat transfer enhancement capabilities of coolants with suspended metallic nanoparticles
inside typical radial flow cooling systems are numerically investigated in this paper. The …

This paper presents an experimental investigation of heat transfer enhancement capabilities
of coolants with suspended nanoparticles (Al2O3 dispersed in water) inside a radial flow …

Numerical simulations of the turbulent flow in an asymmetric two-dimensional diffuser are
carried out using three commercial CFD codes: CFX, Fluent, and Star-CD. A low-Reynolds …