Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Heat Transfer on a Rotating Disk With an Impinging Jet

A numerical study has been earned out to investigate the fluid flow structure and convective heat transfer due to a circular jet impinging on a rotating disk. The temperature distribution and convection heat transfer coefficient on the disk are calculated. Flow is considered to be steady, incompressible and turbulent. k-ε RNG model is used to model the turbulent flow. Two new criteria are introduced and used to evaluate the performance of cooling process which are maximum temperature difference on the disk and the average temperature of the disk. The first parameter shows the uniformity of temperature distribution in the disk and the second shows the effect of both thermo physical properties of the disk material and cooling process. In order to verify the numerical approach, results have been compared with the experimental data which shows a good agreement.