Several novel techniques for controlling, managing and utilizing high power diode lasers are described. Low pressure water spray cooling for a high heat flux system is developed and proven to be an ideal cooling method for high power diode laser arrays. In order to enable better thermal and optical performance of diode laser arrays, a new and simple optical element, the beam control prism, is invented. It provides the ability to accomplish beam shaping and beam tilting at the same time. Several low thermal resistance diode packaging designs using beam control prisms are proposed, studied and produced. Two pump cavity designs using a diode laser array to uniformly pump rod shape gain media are also investigated.

<p dir="ltr">Approximately 95% of global steel production relies on continuous casting, there is a need for a practical, cost-effective, and accurate method to guide real-world production. A successful integration of three individual CFD models – spray cooling model, solidification model, and carbon segregation model – was accomplished. To understand the heat transfer behavior on a heated surface, a three-dimensional model was used to simulate the interaction of liquid droplets with a heated surface during the secondary cooling process, employing air-mist nozzles. The real nozzle layout, as employed in a full-scale continuous caster to provide HTC data on slab surface. For solidification model, enthalpy-porosity methods were applied to estimate the metallurgical length and surface temperatures. Carbon transport within the continuous caster was considered, revealing a phenomenon of positive segregation at the center of the slab. Building upon this foundation, further investigations were carried out to assess the implications of nozzle clogging. These effects encompass surface temperature, metallurgical length, and carbon concentration. Commercial software ANSYS Fluent 2021 R2 and Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2302 are chosen for their exceptional computational performance. MATLAB and Python play key roles in both pre and post processing, including mapping HTC profiles, visualizing shell growth, and extracting temperature and cooling profiles.</p>

La compréhension des phénomènes se déroulant lors de l’impact d’une goutte sur une paroi chaude est essentielle à l’optimisation des systèmes de refroidissement par sprays. Lorsque la température de paroi est élevée, un film de vapeur se forme quasi-instantanément entre la goutte et la paroi chaude. Ce film modifie le comportement hydrodynamique des gouttes et réduit considérablement les échanges de chaleur et de masse par rapport à un impact mouillant. La modélisation de ces phénomènes est complexe en raison des nombreux couplages entre les transferts de chaleur et de masse et la dynamique d’impact de la goutte. Pour aborder ce sujet, des techniques de mesure optiques ont été développées spécifiquement. L’imagerie de fluorescence induite par plan laser à deux couleurs permet de caractériser la distribution de la température à l’intérieur des gouttes. Des images du champ de température, résolues à la fois spatialement et temporellement, sont rendues possible grâce à l’utilisation d’un nouveau couple de colorants fluorescents conservant une grande sensibilité à la température quand ils sont excités par un laser pulsé nanoseconde d’une énergie de plusieurs centaines de mJ. En parallèle, la thermographie infrarouge a été utilisée pour déterminer la température de la surface d’impact en saphir. Pour cela, cette dernière est recouverte d’une couche de quelques centaines de nanomètres de TiAlN, émissif dans l’IR alors que le saphir est transparent. Les images haute cadence sont analysées par un modèle d’inversion, prenant en compte la conduction thermique dans le saphir, afin d’estimer la densité de flux thermique au niveau de la surface d’impact. L’épaisseur du film de vapeur est également déduite de ces mesures sous l’hypothèse, justifiée a posteriori, d’une conduction thermique prépondérante dans le film de vapeur. Une étude de l’impact de gouttes d’eau est réalisée en faisant varier la vitesse d’impact et la température des gouttes avant impact, ainsi que la température de paroi. Dans la plupart des cas, la chaleur extraite à la paroi est comparable à celle transférée au liquide pour l’échauffer. Lorsque la température de paroi se rapproche et dépasse la température de Leidenfrost, les transferts de chaleur deviennent de plus en plus sensibles au nombre de Weber, et de moins en moins dépendant de la température de paroi. L’épaisseur du film de vapeur est affectée par des instabilités, dont les caractéristiques (longueur d’onde, amplitude) sont étudiées à partir des images IR. Finalement, un modèle 1D semi empirique est proposé pour décrire l’échauffement des gouttes et la croissance du film de vapeur. La pression exercée par la goutte sur le film de vapeur se dissipe très vite à l’impact, si bien que la croissance du film de vapeur est gouvernée par la conduction de la chaleur vers la goutte et non par la dynamique de l’impact / The understanding of phenomena occurring at the impact of a droplet onto a hot wall is crucial for the optimization of spray cooling systems. When the temperature of the wall is high, a vapor layer appears quasi-instantaneously between the droplet and le wall. This film of vapor modifies the hydrodynamic behavior of the droplet and highly reduce the heat and mass transfers in comparison with a wetting impact. Modelling these phenomena is complex because of the numerous coupling between the heat and mass transfers and the fluids dynamic. To get some insights into this phenomenon, optical diagnostic techniques have been developed. Two color planar laser induced fluorescence imaging allows characterizing the distribution of the temperature inside the droplet. Images of the temperature fields, resolved both spatially and temporally, are recorded thanks to the use of a couple of fluorescent dyes keeping a high temperature sensitivity even when they are excited by a nanosecond pulsed laser with and an energy of hundreds m J. In parallel, the infrared thermography is used to determine the temperature of the impinged surface made of sapphire. For that, this surface is coated with a thin film (about 300 nanometers) of TiAlN, highly emissive in the IR domain as opposed to the sapphire which is transparent in it. High frame rate image sequences are analyzed thanks to an analytical inversion model, taking into account the thermal conduction in the sapphire, in order to estimate the heat flux density at the impact surface. The thickness of the vapor layer was also deduced from this measurements thanks to the hypothesis of a dominant thermal conduction in the vapor layer. A study of water drop impact was performed with different impact speeds, wall temperatures and different drop injection temperatures. In most of the cases, the heat flux extracted from the wall in close to the flux transferred to the liquid phase of the droplet. When the wall temperature approaches or exceeds the Leidenfrost temperature, the transfers become more sensitive to the Weber number and less sensitive to the wall temperature. The vapor layer thickness is affected by instabilities whose caracteristics (wavelengths, amplitude) were investigated from the IR images. Eventually, a 1-Dsemi-empirical model is given for describing the heating of the liquid part of the droplet and the growth of vapor layer. The effect of the pressure exerted by the droplet onto the vapor film rapidly decreases during the impact process, so that the growth of the vapor film is only driven by the heat transferred by conduction to the droplet and not by dynamical parameters such as the impact velocity

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:09:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissGRN.pdf: 2609082 bytes, checksum: 09147cf07533f0a088d8e1734fc80ee4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-12-09 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The cooling effect of evaporation is used in dry climates buildings since ancient times. Water evaporation can remove heat of roofs, cooling the interior of buildings indirectly. This study presents the measurement results of a test bed which received two identical tiles, one of them receiving water application and the other kept dry. Its objective was to investigate the effects that the evaporation provokes on internal surface temperature of ceramic tiles and fibrocement tiles. Using regression analyses, strong correlations were found among the falls observed in tiles internal surface temperatures and the climatic conditions. The evaporation provoked reduction of until 18,7 oC in the ceramic roof and until 17ºC reduction in the fibrocement one. / O resfriamento evaporativo de ambientes é conhecido pelos habitantes de regiões de clima seco desde a antiguidade. A evaporação de água sobre coberturas retira calor das mesmas, refrigerando indiretamente o interior da edificação. Este trabalho apresenta resultados de um estudo em que foram medidos os efeitos que a evaporação provoca sobre as temperaturas superficiais internas de telhas de barro e de fibrocimento, sujeitas às variações climáticas como o vento e radiação solar. Para tanto, montou-se uma bancada de testes onde foram monitoradas telhas idênticas, uma com gotejamento de água e outra mantida seca, em situações de inverno em laboratório e em situações de verão em campo. Por meio de análise de regressão, identificou-se fortes correlações entre as quedas observadas nas temperaturas superficiais internas das telhas e as condições climáticas. A evaporação provocou redução de até 18,7 ºC na temperatura superficial interna da telha de barro e de até 17ºC na de telha de fibrocimento. Os resultados indicaram que o gotejamento de água sobre superfícies externas de telhas de barro e de fibrocimento reduz a temperatura superficial interna das mesmas por meio da refrigeração evaporativa, sendo um potencial método de resfriamento passivo de telhados de barro e de fibrocimento na região de São Carlos-SP.

Spray cooling of hot surfaces is used in the metallurgical industry during continuous casting, hot rolling or heat treatment. The water is sprayed on the cooled surface by the nozzle which transforms the water stream to droplets. The spray cooling of hot surfaces can be characterized as forced convection with the presence of the boiling. This physically complicated process is influenced by many factors, such as impurities and contaminants in the water, water temperature, water flow rate, droplet size, droplet impact velocity, surface temperature, surface roughness or the presence of oxides (scales) on the cooled surface. The dominant factor that affects the heat transfer during the spray cooling is the water impingement density. Other factors have a smaller but also significant effect. This doctoral thesis deals with the influence of the water temperature, surface roughness and the presence of oxides on the intensity of the spray cooling. These factors are investigated by laboratory experiments in which the hot steel surface is spray cooled. Effect of the oxide layer is also investigated by the numerical simulation. The experimental results are theoretically explained and generalized using mathematical methods.

This thesis is divided into four distinct chapters all linked by the topic of spray cooling. Chapter one gives a detailed categorization of future and current spray cooling applications, and reviews the major advantages and disadvantages that spray cooling has over other high heat flux cooling techniques. Chapter two outlines the developmental goals of spray cooling, which are to increase the output of a current system and to enable new technologies to be technically feasible. Furthermore, this chapter outlines in detail the impact that land, air, sea, and space environments have on the cooling system and what technologies could be enabled in each environment with the aid of spray cooling. In particular, the heat exchanger, condenser and radiator are analyzed in their corresponding environments. Chapter three presents an experimental investigation of a fluid management system for a large area multiple nozzle spray cooler. A fluid management or suction system was used to control the liquid film layer thickness needed for effective heat transfer. An array of sixteen pressure atomized spray nozzles along with an imbedded fluid suction system was constructed. Two surfaces were spray tested one being a clear grooved Plexiglas plate used for visualization and the other being a bottom heated grooved 4.5 x 4.5 cm2 copper plate used to determine the heat flux. The suction system utilized an array of thin copper tubes to extract excess liquid from the cooled surface. Pure water was ejected from two spray nozzle configurations at flow rates of 0.7 L/min to 1 L/min per nozzle. It was found that the fluid management system provided fluid removal efficiencies of 98% with a 4-nozzle array, and 90% with the full 16-nozzle array for the downward spraying orientation. The corresponding heat fluxes for the 16 nozzle configuration were found with and without the aid of the fluid management system. It was found that the fluid management system increased heat fluxes on the average of 30 W/cm2 at similar values of superheat. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of this array at removing heat at full levels of suction is approximately 50% & 40% of a single nozzle at respective 10[degrees]C & 15[degrees]C values of superheat. The heat transfer data more closely resembled convective pooling boiling. Thus, it was concluded that the poor heat transfer was due to flooding occurring which made the heat transfer mechanism mainly forced convective boiling and not spray cooling. Finally, Chapter four gives a detailed guide for the design and construction of a high heat flux heater for experimental uses where accurate measurements of surface temperatures and heat fluxes are extremely important. The heater designs presented allow for different testing applications; however, an emphasis is placed on heaters designed for use with spray cooling.