Numerical heat transfer correlation for array of hot-air jets impinging on 3-dimensional concave surface

Numerical heat transfer correlations established from a numerical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study of a three-dimensional hot-air jet array impinging on curved (circular) surface are presented. The results are in the form of numerical correlations for the average and maximum Nusselt number for different nozzle-to-nozzle spacing, nozzle-to-surface height, and hot-air jet Mach numbers typical of those in an hot-air antiicing system employed on aircraft wings. A validation case is presented, and it is shown that the results obtained from the CFD study are in good agreement with experimental data found in the literature. An interpolation technique, the Dual-Kriging method, that makes use of the numerical database for antiicing simulation on aircraft wings is presented. The benefit of using the Dual-Kriging method is that it preserves the nonlinear nature of the heat transfer distribution from a hot-air jet impinging on a curved surface.