The present work reports Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of an impinging round jet onto a rotating heated disk in a confined rotor-stator cavity. The geometrical characteristics of the system correspond to the experimental set-up developed by u. Pelle and S. Harmand. Heat transfer study in a rotor-stator system air-gap with an axial inflow. Applied Thermal Engineering, 29:1532-1543, 2009.]. The aspect ratio of the cavity G = h/R-d between the interdisk spacing h and the rotor radius R-d is fixed to 0.02 corresponding to a narrow-gap cavity. The axial Reynolds number Red based on the jet characteristics is also fixed to Re-j = 5300, while the rotational Reynolds number Re-Omega may vary to preserve the swirl parameter N proportional to Re(Omega)dRe(j) (0 <= N= 1.237, centrifugal effects at the rotor periphery are balanced by a centripetal flow along the stator. Some spiral patterns develop then in the stator boundary layer corresponding to the SRIII instability of [L. Schouveiler, P. Le Gal, and M. P. Chauve. Instabilities of the flow between a rotating and a stationary disk. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 443:329-350, 2001.] in an enclosed cavity. The numerical results are found to agree particularly well with the experimental data in terms of the distribution of the local Nusselt number along the rotor. Finally, a correlation for its averaged value is proposed according to the swirl parameter. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.