Experimental Investigation of the Impacts of Laminar and Turbulent Impinging Jet Flows on the Convective Heat Transfer in a Metal Plate

Dissipation of heat has become a common reason for the thermal runway and malfunction of various electronic devices. To effectively use these devices, it is mandatory to extract heat from the dissipating parts. Impinging jet flows (IJF) have been used for cooling purposes for decades. The jet impingement technique contains a pressurized fluid and is designed to spray the fluid with the help of a nozzle on the surface of the disc or plate which is being heated. However, recent advances on the effective heat transfer using metal foams are being studied. This research work focuses on the contribution of laminar and turbulent flows from IJF in extracting heat from the surface plate in the presence of geometrically diverse metal foams. The factors under consideration are H/Dj, Heat flux, thickness of the metal foams, and diameter of the metal foams. This research is purely experimental, and the experimental setup consists of mainly compressor, pressure gauges, rotameter, electric resistor, and thermocouples. The flows are controlled through rotameter and are kept in the range of Re from 800 to 2000 for laminar and from 3000 to 23000 for turbulent region. The outcomes of the results are extremely useful in engineering applications and the data can be used to design an effective heat exchanger.