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Les pompes à chaleur thermoélectriques (PACTE) présentent différents avantages par rapport aux pompes à chaleur thermodynamiques classiques. Plus particulièrement, les performances des PACTE sont intéressantes lorsque les écarts de température entre sources sont modestes, ce qui est par exemple le cas du chauffage aéraulique des bâtiments basse consommation (BBC) à partir d'une Ventilation Mécanique Double Flux (VMC DF). L'objectif de l'étude est donc de développer un démonstrateur de pompe à chaleur thermoélectrique réversible capable d'assurer la puissance de chauffage/refroidissement nécessaire à un logement de type BBC. Ce travail repose sur différents modèles analytiques et numériques validés expérimentalement. Cette étude vise à concevoir un système de pompe à chaleur thermoélectrique performant, l'objectif étant l'amélioration du coefficient de performance (COP) de la PACTE. Les transferts de chaleur à la surface des éléments thermoélectriques sont intensifiés par la technique du jet impactant, et le dimensionnement du système est optimisé en fonction des conditions d'utilisation. Avec le démonstrateur de résultats précédents de la PACTE, le COP saisonnier a été déterminé. Après couplage au bâtiment, cela a permis de montrer une nette amélioration des performances du système. / As house heating tends to be more efficient, Thermoelectric Heat Pump (THP) is an interesting alternative to classic thermodynamic system (with mechanical vapor compression system). In particular, THP becomes favorable as soon as the sources temperature difference is small, which is the case in energy efficient buildings with an exhaust/supply mechanical ventilation system (ESMVS). The objective of the study is to develop a reversible THP prototype capable of supplying the heating / cooling power needed in an energy efficient building. This work is based on different analytical and numerical models validated experimentally. This study aims to develop an efficient thermoelectric heat pump system and to improve its coefficient of performance (COP) by increasing heat transfer on the surface of the thermoelectric elements with impinging jet, and optimizing the THP by dimensioning the system based on operating conditions. With the results obtained with the THP prototype, the seasonal COP is determined. After coupling the THP system to the building, we show an improvement in system performance.

Les processus physiques qui régissent la pulvérisation de sprays constituent la première étape vers une compréhension globale du comportement de moteurs fusées à ergols stockables. La première partie de ces travaux détermine, au moyen de visualisations et d’analyses granulométriques, les paramètres importants contrôlant la formation de sprays par impact de jets liquides. Des injecteurs dédiés à pulvériser des ergols stockables sont ensuite conçus. L’enjeu de la seconde partie des travaux est d’étudier la combustion de l’éthanol avec le peroxyde d’hydrogène, ergols stockables considérés moins nocifs. L’utilisation de cette association bi-ergols innovante a nécessité d’analyser en détail leur compatibilité à l’allumage, ainsi que leurs performances en combustion sur la gamme de richesses 0,4 – 2,0, à l’aide de diagnostics optiques et physiques spécifiques. Les efficacités de combustion atteignent entre 87 et 98 %, les fluctuations de pression ne dépassent pas 10 %, mais les légères différences obtenues permettent de sélectionner les meilleures configurations d’injection favorisant la combustion ou sa stabilité. / The physical processes involved in spraying are the first step towards a comprehensive understanding of the behavior of rocket engines using storable propellants. The first part of this work identifies, through visualizations and particle sizing, the important parameters driving the formation of spray by impinging liquid jets. Then, injectors dedicated to spray storable green-propellants are designed. The second part of this thesis aims at studying the combustion of ethanol with hydrogen peroxide, which are regarded as green-storable propellants. But the use of this innovative bi-propellant association required a detailed analysis of their ignition compatibility, as well as their combustion performance within the range of 0,4 – 2,0 in overall equivalence ratio. Specific optical and physical diagnostics helped to achieve these goals. Combustion efficiency reached between 87 and 98 %, pressure fluctuations did not exceed 10 %, but the slight differences obtained allowed to select the best injection configurations promoting efficient combustion and stability.

A method of providing ventilation using impinging jets (IJV) utilizes stratification while delivering air at a high velocity. As a result of this attribute and the simplicity of its terminal construction, IJV offers an advantage over the well-known Displacement Ventilation (DV) system. The corner IJV system was used during this investigation to construct the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation protocol. To verify the suitability of the turbulence model used in the CFD simulation, numerical values derived from several turbulence models were compared to full-scale experiment data. The results of this study demonstrate that turbulent models are the most important factors when using CFD for the study of the velocity field generated by IJVs terminals. A parametric study was conducted after the models were created and verified using the CFD software COMSOL to determine which is the most suitable arrangement for occupants' ventilation and draught avoidance in a square room. Calculations using computational methods were conducted to characterize the rooms' performance under different operating conditions and cross-sections of the air supply terminals. Among the findings of the research is that increasing the cross-section of the supply terminal reduces the sensation of local discomfort, but decreases air velocity speeds. Furthermore, placing the supply terminal on the same side of a room block improves occupant satisfaction, whereas placing the supply terminal on opposite sides enhances ventilation efficiency.

[pt] Vibrações induzidas por escoamento tem apresentado cada vez mais importância na indústria do petróleo. A vibração de colunas produção, somada aos ciclos normais de oscilação de temperatura e pressão dos poços, pode causar o desgaste dos diversos micro-componentes presentes no sistema. Uma potencial fonte de perturbação, em poços injetores, é a turbulência do escoamento formado por um jato que sai em alta velocidade da coluna de injeção e atinge a parede do revestimento. No presente estudo, investiga-se o efeito causado por jatos confinados no espaço anular formado por dois tubos concêntricos. A geometria assemelha-se àquela de um poço injetor, entretanto os números de Reynolds analisados são inferiores ao caso real. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi analisar o comportamento desse tipo de escoamento sob diferentes condições, no que diz respeito a número de Reynolds, distância em relação a superfície e número de jatos presentes no espaço anular. O escoamento no interior do espaço anular foi caracterizado com a técnica de velocimetria por imagem de partículas com alta resolução temporal (time resolved PIV). O comportamento dinâmico das perturbações foi analisado e as estruturas espaciais mais relevantes foram estimadas utilizando a decomposição por modos próprios ortogonais. Os resultados mostram que na presença de dois jatos o escoamento o escoamento apresenta flutuações periódicas mais intensas, com frequências bem definidas, sugerindo um acoplamento dos jatos. Foram realizados experimentos para estimar os coeficientes de transferência de calor associados com esse escoamento. Para isso, foram realizados experimentos com aquecimento da superfície do tubo externo. Nos casos com jatos próximos a superfície, os resultados sugerem que ocorre uma redução da transferência de calor na região de estagnação do jato. / [en] Flow induced vibration has shown an increasingly higher relevance in oil and gas industry. The vibration of completion strings, plus normal cycles of wells, can cause premature failure of micro-components present in the system. Flow turbulence is a potential source of vibration for the system. In injection wells, the fluid flows from the inner pipe (completion string) towards the surface of the external pipes (casings). This flow frequently has a turbulent behaviour, due to the high flow rates employed. In the present study, flow resulting from jets in a confined annular space is investigated, for different parameters, including Reynolds number, pipe diameters and number of jets. The geometry resembles that of an injection well, however the Reynolds numbers analyzed are lower than the actual case. The flow field inside the annular space is characterized using time resolved PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) techniques. The dynamic behavior of the perturbations was analyzed and the most relevant spatial structures were estimated using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD). Results show that, in presence of two jets, flow exhibits intense periodic fluctuations, with well-defined frequencies This suggests the presence of a coupling between jets. Experiments are carried out to estimate the heat transfer coefficients associated with this flow. In the cases with jets close to the surface, results suggest that a reduction of heat transfer occurs in the region of jet stagnation.

The work reported in this thesis is an attempt to enhance heat transfer in electronic devices with the use of impinging air jets on pin-finned heat sinks. The cooling per-formance of electronic devices has attracted increased attention owing to the demand of compact size, higher power densities and demands on system performance and re-liability. Although the technology of cooling has greatly advanced, the main cause of malfunction of the electronic devices remains overheating. The problem arises due to restriction of space and also due to high heat dissipation rates, which have increased from a fraction of a W/cm2to 100s of W /cm2. Although several researchers have at-tempted to address this at the design stage, unfortunately the speed of invention of cooling mechanism has not kept pace with the ever-increasing requirement of heat re- moval from electronic chips. As a result, efficient cooling of electronic chip remains a challenge in thermal engineering. Heat transfer can be enhanced by several ways like air cooling, liquid cooling, phase change cooling etc. However, in certain applications due to limitations on cost and weight, eg. air borne application, air cooling is imperative. The heat transfer can be increased by two ways. First, increasing the heat transfer coefficient (forced convec- tion), and second, increasing the surface area of heat transfer (finned heat sinks). From previous literature it was established that for a given volumetric air flow rate, jet im-pingement is the best option for enhancing heat transfer coefficient and for a given volume of heat sink material pin-finned heat sinks are the best option because of their high surface area to volume ratio. There are certain applications where very high jet velocities cannot be used because of limitations of noise and presence of delicate components. This process can further be improved by pulsating the jet. A steady jet often stabilizes the boundary layer on the surface to be cooled. Enhancement in the convective heat transfer can be achieved if the boundary layer is broken. Disruptions in the boundary layer can be caused by pulsating the impinging jet, i.e., making the jet unsteady. Besides, the pulsations lead to chaotic mixing, i.e., the fluid particles no more follow well defined streamlines but move unpredictably through the stagnation region. Thus the flow mimics turbulence at low Reynolds number. The pulsation should be done in such a way that the boundary layer can be disturbed periodically and yet adequate coolant is made available. So, that there is not much variation in temperature during one pulse cycle. From previous literature it was found that square waveform is most effective in enhancing heat transfer. In the present study the combined effect of pin-finned heat sink and impinging slot jet, both steady and unsteady, has been investigated for both laminar and turbulent flows. The effect of fin height and height of impingement has been studied. The jets have been pulsated in square waveform to study the effect of frequency and duty cycle. This thesis attempts to increase our understanding of the slot jet impingement on pin-finned heat sinks through numerical investigations. A systematic study is carried out using the finite-volume code FLUENT (Version 6.2) to solve the thermal and flow fields. The standard k-ε model for turbulence equations and two layer zonal model in wall function are used in the problem Pressure-velocity coupling is handled using the SIMPLE algorithm with a staggered grid. The parameters that affect the heat transfer coefficient are: height of the fins, total height of impingement, jet exit Reynolds number, frequency of the jet and duty cycle (percentage time the jet is flowing during one complete cycle of the pulse). From the studies carried out it was found that: a) beyond a certain height of the fin the rate of enhancement of heat transfer becomes very low with further increase in height, b) the heat transfer enhancement is much more sensitive to any changes at low Reynolds number than compared to high Reynolds number, c) for a given total height of impingement the use of fins and pulsated jet, increases the effective heat transfer coefficient by almost 200% for the same average Reynolds number, d) for all the cases it was observed that the optimum frequency of impingement is around 50 − 100 Hz and optimum duty cycle around 25-33.33%, e) in the case of turbulent jets the enhancement in heat transfer due to pulsations is very less compared to the enhancement in case of laminar jets.

A CFD validation study was made using corner supplied impinging jet ventilation operating in cooling mode. The air distribution system has two equilateral triangle shaped inlets placed 80cm above the floor at the two that share a common wall. The supply air was introduced at 2.26m/s. The temperature of the supply air at one of the inlets was slightly higher than the other. The room air velocity and temperature profiles were studied using realizable k-e, RNG k-e, k-e SST and v2-f turbulence models and compared with experimental values. Generally, the agreement between the experimental measurement data of the room air temperatures and velocities and the CFD results was very good in all turbulence models. However, the RNG k-e turbulence model showed better correlation with average errors of 1.9% and 2.8% in predicting temperature and velocity respectively. Possibility of local thermal discomfort with the indoor air were investigated using the Fanger’s thermal comfort indices and draught rate while the air quality was evaluated by the mean age of air and the diffusion coefficient. The thermal comfort indices were computed using a user-defined function and the mean age of air was computed by user- defined scalar that solves a partial differential equation that uses the source diffusivity and calculate the residence time of air in the room. The results show that there is a higher risk of draft at the ankle level (close to 20%) and the room air is freshest near the lower region at the centre of the room. The room air is oldest at the region close to the ceiling in the area between the two mannequins. The study concludes that a satisfactory prediction of thermal stratification and velocity fields can made for evaluating the indoor thermal comfort and air quality using RANS based turbulence models.

<p>This thesis investigates the wall pressure distributions of the single-slot impinging jet and multiple-slot impinging jet as a function of various parameters and compares the results obtained with the computational study of Tamadonfar [2010]. The process of gas wiping is used in many industrial applications such as tempering of the plate glass, the chemical mixing process, and turbine blade cooling. One of the most important industrial applications of gas jet wiping is the production of galvanized steel strip in a continuous hot-dip galvanizing line. In this process, an impinging jet is used to remove the excess zinc alloy from the steel strip and control the final coating weight by applying wall pressure and shear stress on the moving substrate emerging from the bath of molten zinc. Changing the various operating parameters such as jet Reynolds number (<em>Re</em>), the jet to strip distance (<em>z</em>), the jet slot width (<em>d</em>), and jet inclination angles (<em>α</em>) allows manufacturers manipulate the final coating weight on the substrate. Production of high quality sheet steels, which have a very thin coating weight and high uniformity quality, is one of the goals of the automotive industry. In order to obtain thinner and more uniform coating weight, a new model of impinging jet which is comprised of one main jet with two auxiliary jets, one on each side of the main jet, called a multiple-slot impinging jet, is of considerable interest.</p> <p>For the current study, a multiple-slot impinging jet was designed and manufactured and measurements were performed for both the single-slot impinging jets, the current model used in continuous hot-dip galvanizing lines, and the multiple-slot impinging jet subjected to a wide range of gas wiping parameters which include the main jet Reynolds number (<em>Re_m</em>), the auxiliary jet Reynolds number (<em>Re_a</em>), and the plate-to-nozzle ratio (<em>z/d</em>). A comparison between the measured results obtained for the two impinging jet configurations and the numerical results by Tamadonfar [2010] has been provided. The similarities and differences between the experimental and numerical results are presented and discussed.</p> / Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME)

This thesis is primarily about the mapping and analyze of the phenomenon of an impinging jet by experimental measurements and numerical simulations by CFD. The mapping shows the characteristics of velocity in and around the impinging jet with different conditions. Additional studies were made by analyzing the pressure along the vertical jet axis, but also weight measurements were part of the investigation. The measurements covered the range from 10 m/s, 20 m/s and 30 m/s, which corresponds to a Reynolds number of 17 000, 34 000 and 50 000. The impinging jet is therefore considered to be highly turbulent. The main difference from previous studies is the use of the ultrasonic anemometer to measure the velocities. These create the ability of measuring the velocities on three coordinates. The jet’s contour was crucial to determine the penetration of ambient air flowing into the jet with an angle of around 88° and the entrainment of the ambient air multiple the jet volume flow. In comparison with CFD, the number of cells in the mesh design and the type of model plays a substantial role. The model k-ε Realized came closest to the experimentally measurements, while the SST k-ω and RNG k-ε EWF had far more entrainment of the ambient air into the impinging jet. / Detta examensarbete handlar om att kartlägga och analysera fenomenet av en ”impinging jet” genom experimentella mätningar samt numeriska simuleringar som CFD. Undersökningen visar karakteristiken av hastigheten i och kring strålen med olika förutsättningar. Kompletterande undersökningar gjordes för trycket i luftstrålens centrum längs den vertikala axeln, men även viktmätningar var del av undersökningen. Mätningarna omfattade hastigheter från 10 m/s, 20 m/s och 30 m/s som motsvarar ett Reynoldstal med 17 000, 34 000 och 50 000. Luftstrålen betraktas därför som turbulent. Det som skiljer sig från tidigare experiment är att hastigheten mättes med en ultrasonic anemometer som egentligen används inom metrologin för att mäta vindhastigheter. Därmed skapades en tredimensionell bild av hastigheten i och kring luftstrålen. Mätområdet sträckte sig från strålens utgångspunkt ner till strax ovanför plattan. Luftstrålens fastställda kontur var avgörande för att bestämma den inträngande omgivningsluften som strömmar in i strålen med en genomsnittlig vinkel av 88°. Denna inströmmande omgivningsluft flerfaldigade strålens volym. I jämförelse med CFD simuleringen visades att antal celler i meshen är avgörande för att skapa liknande och reala förutsättningar. Vid undersökningen av den inträngande omgivningsluften visades även att själva modellen spelar en avgörande roll. Det var modellen k-ε Realized som kom närmast mätningarna. Däremot uppvisade SST k-ω och RNG k-ε EWF modellerna mycket mer inträngande omgivningsluft i jämförelse med mätningarnas resultat.

IC test socket and socket pogo pin are the major cost of consumption parts in IC testing house. Test yield is the key point to determine the profit for IC testing house. When the processing speed of CPU (Central Processing Unit) and GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) are boosting, heat generation and power dissipation became a serious problem for IC testing house. Most package type of CPU and GPU are packed by Flip-Chip BGA type. High temperature will melt the solder ball and cause test socket pogo pin to damage. The excellent cooling capability of impinging jet had been proofed by many literatures in past. In this article, impinging jet applied to IC test handler contact chuck is investigated. The contact chuck had been redesigned with thermal solution and uses a rectangle hot plate to simulate the thermal status of IC testing. A circular air jet impinged on the rectangle hot plate from the topside of contact chuck. Out flow open area, open area on the wall location and the distance between jet nozzle and hot plate are major parameters of this heat transfer problem. Parameter ¡§Z¡¨ is the distance between jet nozzle and hot plate; ¡§D¡¨ is the diameter of circular air jet. As shown in the result, ratio of Z/D and the location of out flow open area on the wall is obvious on heat transfer capability for redesigned contact chuck. Taguchi method and analysis of variance (ANOVA) method help to clarify the weighting of influence. The optimum Z/D is 0.5 and the optimum location of out flow open area is at dual side corner. Heat transfer capability can be improved approach to 70% after optimization. Width and height of out flow open area only made about 5% impact on heat transfer capability.