Impingement jet hydrogen, air and Cu[sbnd]H2O nanofluid cooling of a hot surface covered by porous media with non-uniform input jet velocity

Abstract

In this paper, a numerical investigation is performed on the flow and thermal performance of a heat sink, covered with an open cell metal foam, under the influences of uniform and non-uniform velocity impinging jets. Hydrogen, air and Cu-water nanofluid are considered as the cooling fluids. Navier-Stokes PDEs including the porous drag induced terms – represented by Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer relation – in line with the energy equation, are transformed to a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) through definition of non-dimensional parameter and similarity variables. The system of non-linear ODEs has been solved numerically and results are validated by comparison with those of a commercial software. Afterward, the influences of hydrodynamic variables, porous medium properties and nanofluid volume fraction on flow and heat transfer performance of the heat sink, have been scrutinized. Results presented in terms of non-dimensional velocity and temperature profiles, as well as the stream function, velocity and temperature contours. Results indicate that increasing the volume fraction of nanofluid have increased the heat transfer rate. In addition, under the constant heat sink inlet mass flow rate, the use of non-uniform impingement jet with decreasing velocity distribution improves the thermal performance of the heat sink.