Reinhold Kneer
Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer, RWTH Aachen University, Augustinerbach 6, Aachen, 52056, Germany
Herman Haustein
Tel Aviv University
Claas Ehrenpreis
Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer, RWTH Aachen University, Augustinerbach
6, Aachen, 52056, Germany
Wilko Rohlfs
Department of Thermal Fluid Engineering, University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands
Impinging jets are central to a large amount of industrial processes and applications, and as such have been investigated extensively. Despite this fact, review of the literature shows that a comprehensive description for the flow and heat transfer of the basic underlying laminar single-jet case has not been given. Thereby the present study attempts to collect the understanding gained by previous studies, together with that obtained in recent studies by the authors, in a logical manner (following the flow), in order to formulate such a description. While not necessarily complete, more complex aspects such as turbulence, confinement and dissipation are not addressed, the present study takes a major step towards a unified description of this fundamental flow-configuration.