Numerical simulation of the quenching process in liquid jet impingement

Direct numerical simulation is performed for quenching of a hot plate in liquid jet impingement. The flow and thermal characteristics associated with the quenching process, which includes film boiling in the fluid region as well as transient conduction in the solid region, are investigated by solving the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy in the liquid, gas and solid phases. The liquid–vapor and liquid–air interfaces are tracked by the sharp-interface level-set method modified to treat the effect of phase change. The computations demonstrate that the boiling curve of wall heat flux versus temperature does not depend on the transient or steady-state heating conditions. The effects of initial solid temperature and solid properties on the quenching characteristics are quantified.