Area average heat transfer from a vertical flat plate impinged by circular inclined jet

The inclined impinging jets owing to higher efficiency are widely used to disperse concentrated and transient heat loads. The temperature and heat transfer characteristics of jet cooling vertical hot plate at different inclinations are experimentally investigated. Experiments are performed to investigate the area average heat transfer over a flat surface of 600 × 300 mm2 placed at different location (z) of 3−20 d from the jet. The investigation is employed for Reynolds number based on hydraulic diameter of 11.5 mm ranging from 10,000 to 75,000. The orientation of the jet varies from 15° to 75°. The study aims to investigate the influence of jet orientation at different area locations on the surface from the point of impingement. The effect in stagnation region with different jet tilt is investigated. The area average temperature variation and characteristic temperature contours with increasing surface area and inclination is delineated. The characteristics of heat transfer on the surface’s periphery are studied. Heat transfer increases by 40% at lower tilt angle as the jet is displaced from 20 to 6 d, whereas the maximum average Nu occurs at higher inclination. The available Nusselt numbers in inclined jet are compared with present experimental results. A new empirical correlation is developed for a complete range of z/d, Re and large radial span.