Abstract
Spray impingement on smooth and heated surfaces is a highly complex thermofluid phenomenon present in several engineering applications. The combination of phase Doppler interferometry, high-speed visualization, and time-resolved infrared thermography allows characterizing the heat transfer and fluid dynamics involved. Particular emphasis is given to the use of nanofluids in sprays due to their potential to enhance the heat transfer mechanisms. The results for low nanoparticle concentrations (up to 1 wt.%) show that the surfactant added to water, required to stabilize the nanofluids and minimize particle clustering, affects the spray’s main characteristics. Namely, the surfactant decreases the liquid surface tension leading to a larger wetted area and wettability, promoting heat transfer between the surface and the liquid film. However, since lower surface tension also tends to enhance splash near the edges of the wetted area, the gold nanospheres act to lessen such disturbances due to an increase of the solutions’ viscosity, thus increasing the heat flux removed from the spray slightly. The experimental results obtained from this work demonstrate that the maximum heat convection coefficients evaluated for the nanofluids can be 9.8% to 21.9% higher than those obtained with the base fluid and 11.5% to 38.8% higher when compared with those obtained with DI water.
Highlights
The dissipation of high heat loads is still a challenging task that fosters alternative cooling strategies
The results mostly focus on overall heat flux values, leaving the analysis of the fluid flow and heat transfer mechanisms into a secondary plane
The experiments performed to characterize the dynamic and heat transfer mechanisms used the synchronized images from the high-speed video and thermographic cameras
Summary
The dissipation of high heat loads is still a challenging task that fosters alternative cooling strategies. An extensive body of research explored the use of nanofluids made from suspensions of nanometer-sized particles (
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