CFD-Example 3: Quenching in a field of impinging jets

Cylinder, plates and ball bearing ring are quenched in a variable nozzle field. The influence of the nozzle field parameters on the heat transfer coefficient, the hardness, the residual stresses, the distortion and the material structure is investigated. Numerical simulations are applied to optimize the arrangement of the jets.

Figure 1: Velocities for a ring configuration in a nozzle field 

Figure 1 shows the flow around a ring configuration. Due to the model symmetry, the numerically investigated region can be reduced to the shown cut out.

 

 

Figure 2: Nusselt-Number for cylinder configuration

Figure 2 shows the dimensionless heat transfer, the Nusselt-Number, for a cylinder configuration. Everywhere, where a jet impinges onto the surface, the heat transfer increases. A good agreement between numerical and experimental data has been achieved (see references below). The numerical analysis allows to improve the understanding of momentum and heat transfer in the facility. 

 

 

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Further information:

U. Heck, U. Fritsching, K. Bauckhage

Fluid flow and heat transfer in gas jet quenching of a cylinder, Int. Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 11, p. 36-49, 2001 

B. Gondersen, U. Heck, T. Lübben, U. Fritsching, F. Hoffmann, K. Bauckhage

Optimierung der Einzelteilabschreckung im Düsenfeld, Teil 2: Maß- und Formänderung und numerische Simulation, Härterei-Technische Mitteilungen, Vol. 53, S. 194-198, 1998

B. Gondersen, U. Heck, T. Lübben, U. Fritsching, F. Hoffmann, K. Bauckhage

Optimierung der Einzelteilabschreckung im Düsenfeld, Teil 1: Einfluß der Düsenfeldparameter auf Abkühlgeschwindigkeit und Oberflächenhärte, Härterei-Technische Mitteilungen, Vol. 53, S. 87-92, 1998