Local Heat Transfer Distribution Due To Impinging Of Circular Synthetic

Air Jet

Naveen C.S a, V.V.Katti b

a
KLS VDRIT, Haliyal, Karnataka, India,naveencsgokul@gmail.com
b
VDRIT, Haliyal, Karnataka, India,katti.vadiraj@gmail.com

Abstract
In the fast growing technology, due to faster operation of each transistor and an increase in their
density on integrated circuits, a large amount of heat needs to be dissipated. Thermal
overstressing is one of the major causes of failure of electronic components. Due to low cost,
availability and reliability, air will continue to be used as the working fluid. In the present work,
synthetic jet impingement cooling is considered which can potentially be used for cooling of
hot-spots. A synthetic jet is commonly formed when the fluid is alternately sucked into and
ejected from a small cavity by the motion of a diaphragm bounding the cavity, so that there is
no net mass addition to the system. This feature obviates the need for input piping or complex
fluidic packaging and makes synthetic jets ideally suited for low-cost batch fabrication using
micro-machining techniques. The synthetic jet is a new entrant into the means available to
engineers to manipulate flow to achieve the desired result. Besides cooling, the synthetic jets
have a number of other potential engineering applications, such as boundary-layer separation
control, jet vectoring, better mixing of fuel in the engine combustion chamber, creation of local
turbulence, and vehicle propulsion.

Acostic speaker of 5 watt is used for synthetic jet formation. The power supply to speaker is
maintained constant 4 volt and signal generator is used for frequency regulation. The target
plate is made of stainless steel mounted between two buss bars heated by DC power supply.
The impingement heat transfer characteristics of a synthetic jet are studied with thermal
infrared camera of FLUKE Ti 400. Experiments are conducted for different range of input
parameters. The excitation frequency is varied as 60,80,100,120,140,160,180 Hz, axial distance
between jet to surface plate (Z/d = 1 to 12) and orifice diameter used are 4,6 and 8mm.The
maximum heat transfer takes place at some axial distance between jet to surface plate (Z/d) for
both orifice diameter, at resonance frequency. Between the range (60-80Hz) of excitation
frequencies there exits two resonance frequencies, out of which second resonance frequency has
a higher heat transfer compared to first resonance frequency. The present result also show that,
for better enhancement of heat transfer during lower axial distance(Z/d), higher diameter orifice
is preferred and for higher axial distance between jet to surface plate (Z/d), smaller diameter
orifice is preferred.

Key words: synthetic jet, Wall static pressure, satellite orifices etc.