Study of Steady, Two-Dimensional, Unicellular Convection in a Water-Copper Nanoliquid-Saturated Porous Enclosure Using Single-Phase Model

Author(s):  
P. G. Siddheshwar ◽  
B. N. Veena
2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
R.Kh. Bolotnova ◽  
V.A. Buzina

The two-dimensional and two-phase model of the gas-liquid mixture is constructed. The validity of numerical model realization is justified by using a comparative analysis of test problems solution with one-dimensional calculations. The regularities of gas-saturated liquid outflow from axisymmetric vessels for different geometries are established.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 1071-1089 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-chen Xia ◽  
Ji Li ◽  
Zhi-xian Cao ◽  
Qing-quan Liu ◽  
Kai-heng Hu

Author(s):  
Muzafar Hussain ◽  
Shahbaz Tahir

Abstract Nanofluids are widely adopted nowadays to enhance the heat transfer characteristics in the solar applications because of their excellent thermophysical properties. In this paper, a modified Eulerian-Eulerian model recently developed based on experiments was validated numerically to account for the deviations from the experimental data. The modified Eulerian-Eulerian model is compared with the single-phase model, Eulerian-Eulerian models for TiO2-water at different operating conditions and deviation from the experimental data for each of the model was documented. However, the modified Eulerian-Eulerian model gave much closer results when compared to the experimental data. For the further extension of work, the modified Eulerian-Eulerian model was applied to different nanofluids in order to investigate their heat transfer characteristics. Three different nanoparticles were investigated namely Cu, MgO, and Ag and their heat transfer characteristics is calculated based on the modified Eulerian-Eulerian model as well as the single-phase model for the comparison. For lower values of Reynolds numbers, the average heat transfer coefficient was almost identical for both models with small percentage of error but for higher Reynolds numbers, the deviation got larger. Therefore, single-phase model is not appropriate for higher Reynolds numbers and modified Eulerian-Eulerian model should be used to accurately predict the heat transfer characteristics of the nanofluids at higher Reynolds numbers. From the analysis it is found that the Ag-water nanofluid have the highest heat transfer characteristics among others and can be employed in the solar heat exchangers to enhance the heat transfer characteristics and to further improve the efficiency.


2010 ◽  
Vol 150-151 ◽  
pp. 1358-1363
Author(s):  
Bin Fang ◽  
Chuan Zhen Huang ◽  
Chong Hai Xu ◽  
Sheng Sun

The fabrication is a key process for the preparation of ceramic tool materials, which governs the mechanical properties of ceramic tool materials under the condition of the same compositions. A computer simulation coupled with fabrication temperature for the hot-pressing process of single-phase ceramic tool materials has been developed using a two-dimensional hexagon lattice model mapped from the realistic microstructure without considering the presence of pores. The fabrication of single-phase Al2O3 is simulated. The mean grain size of simulated microstructure by Monte Carlo Potts model integrated with fabrication temperature increases with an increase in fabrication temperature, which is consistent with the experiment results.


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