Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing

ISSN for PRINT: 1065-3090

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2004, Volume11

Issue 1

88 pages

DOI: 10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.v11.i1

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Shuichi Torii
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kagoshima University, 1-21-40 Korimoto, Kagoshima, 890-0065; and Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Kumamoto University 2-39-1, Kurokami, Kumamoto, 860-8555, JAPAN

Wen-Jei Yang
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, U.S.A.

A numerical study is performed to investigate steady-state thermal and fluid flow transport phenomena of the vertical free jet, which is placed to the surface with the longitudinal convex curvature. Emphasis is placed on the effects of the Reynolds number, Re, and temperature difference between the jet and the heating surface, ∆T, on velocity and thermal fields. It is found that (i) the flow direction of the jet along the curved surface is controlled by Re and ∆T, (ii) as the curved surface is strongly heated, the separation flow is suppressed, resulting in the flow attached on the surface, and (iii) the attached flow is changed to the separated flow with an increase in the Reynolds number.

DOI: 10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.v11.i1.30 Download article, 10 pages

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