Turbulent impinging jet into a confined porous layer

Turbulent impinging jets on heated surfaces are widely used in industry to modify local heat transfer coefficients. The addition of a porous substrate covering the surface contributes to a better flow distribution, which favors many engineering applications. Motivated by this, the present work shows numerical results for a turbulent impinging jet against a cylindrical enclosure with and without a porous layer at the bottom. The macroscopic time-averaged equations for mass, momentum and energy are obtained based on a concept called double decomposition, which considers spatial deviations and temporal fluctuations of flow properties. The numerical technique employed for discretizing the governing equations is the control volume method in conjunction with a boundary-fitted non-orthogonal coordinate system. The SIMPLE algorithm is used to handle the pressure-velocity coupling. The influence of characteristics of the porous layer on the mean and statistical flow fields within the cylinder is presented.