- Letter
Resonance-driven heat transfer enhancement in a natural convection boundary layer perturbed by a moderate impinging jet
Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, L061501 – Published 17 June, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.L061501
Abstract
We report a resonance-driven convective heat transfer enhancement downstream of a natural convection boundary layer that is perturbed by a moderate impinging jet. Flow resonance is experimentally and numerically confirmed between the boundary layer and a periodic flow driven by the unbalance of jet momentum and buoyancy. When the oscillation frequency in the impinging region is a submultiple of the characteristic frequency of natural convection, downstream heat transfer enhancement from the baseline of natural convection exceeds 40%. In contrast, further increasing the jet momentum fourfold yields . The results support the development of efficient heat transfer enhancement methods.