scholarly journals Conduction and convection heat transfer characteristics of water-based au nanofluids in a square cavity with differentially heated side walls subjected to constant temperatures

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (suppl.1) ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Primoz Ternik ◽  
Rebeka Rudolf
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Rayleigh Number ◽  
Base Fluid ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Square Cavity ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Water Based

The present work deals with the natural convection in a square cavity filled with the water-based Au nanofluid. The cavity is heated on the vertical and cooled from the adjacent wall, while the other two horizontal walls are adiabatic. The governing differential equations have been solved by the standard finite volume method and the hydrodynamic and thermal fields were coupled together using the Boussinesq approximation. The main objective of this study is to investigate the influence of the nanoparticles? volume fraction on the heat transfer characteristics of Au nanofluids at the given base fluid?s (i.e. water) Rayleigh number. Accurate results are presented over a wide range of the base fluid Rayleigh number and the volume fraction of Au nanoparticles. It is shown that adding nanoparticles in a base fluid delays the onset of convection. Contrary to what is argued by many authors, we show by numerical simulations that the use of nanofluids can reduce the heat transfer rate instead of increasing it.

Heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids from a sinusoidal corrugated cylinder placed in a square cavity

2021 ◽  
pp. 095440622110272
Author(s):  
Salaika Parvin ◽  
Nepal Chandra Roy ◽  
Litan Kumar Saha ◽  
Sadia Siddiqa
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Rayleigh Number ◽  
Aspect Ratio ◽  
Average Nusselt Number ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Number Range ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Wide Range

A numerical study is performed to investigate nanofluids' flow field and heat transfer characteristics between the domain bounded by a square and a wavy cylinder. The left and right walls of the cavity are at constant low temperature while its other adjacent walls are insulated. The convective phenomena take place due to the higher temperature of the inner corrugated surface. Super elliptic functions are used to transform the governing equations of the classical rectangular enclosure into a system of equations valid for concentric cylinders. The resulting equations are solved iteratively with the implicit finite difference method. Parametric results are presented in terms of streamlines, isotherms, local and average Nusselt numbers for a wide range of scaled parameters such as nanoparticles concentration, Rayleigh number, and aspect ratio. Several correlations have been deduced at the inner and outer surface of the cylinders for the average Nusselt number, which gives a good agreement when compared against the numerical results. The strength of the streamlines increases significantly due to an increase in the aspect ratio of the inner cylinder and the Rayleigh number. As the concentration of nanoparticles increases, the average Nusselt number at the internal and external cylinders becomes stronger. In addition, the average Nusselt number for the entire Rayleigh number range gets enhanced when plotted against the volume fraction of the nanofluid.

scholarly journals Numerical investigation into natural convection heat transfer enhancement of copper-water nanofluid in a wavy wall enclosure

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1309-1316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-Chang Cho ◽  
Her-Terng Yau ◽  
Cha’o-Kuang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Natural Convection ◽  
Rayleigh Number ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Convection Heat Transfer ◽  
Natural Convection Heat Transfer ◽  
Wavy Wall ◽  
Convection Heat ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Characteristics

Numerical investigations are performed into the natural convection heat transfer characteristics within a wavy-wall enclosure filled with Cu-water nanofluid. In the paper, the bottom wall of the enclosure has a wavy geometry and is maintained at a constant high temperature, while the top wall is straight and is maintained at a constant low temperature. The left and right walls of the enclosure are both straight and insulated. In performing the simulation, the Boussinesq approximation is used to model the governing equations. The study examines the effect of the nanoparticle volume fraction, the Rayleigh number, the wave amplitude, and the wavelength on the heat transfer characteristics. It is shown that the heat transfer performance can be enhanced as the volume fraction of nanoparticles increases. It is also shown that for a given Rayleigh number, the heat transfer effect can be optimized via an appropriate changing of the geometry conditions.

scholarly journals On Heat Transfer Performance of Cooling Systems Using Nanofluid for Electric Motor Applications

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Deriszadeh ◽  
Filippo de Monte
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Base Fluid ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

This paper studies the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids as advance coolants for the cooling system of electric motors. Investigations are carried out using numerical analysis for a cooling system with spiral channels. To solve the governing equations, computational fluid dynamics and 3D fluid motion analysis are used. The base fluid is water with a laminar flow. The fluid Reynolds number and turn-number of spiral channels are evaluation parameters. The effect of nanoparticles volume fraction in the base fluid on the heat transfer performance of the cooling system is studied. Increasing the volume fraction of nanoparticles leads to improving the heat transfer performance of the cooling system. On the other hand, a high-volume fraction of the nanofluid increases the pressure drop of the coolant fluid and increases the required pumping power. This paper aims at finding a trade-off between effective parameters by studying both fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of the nanofluid.

Pool Boiling Characteristics of Metallic Nanofluids

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Hari Krishna ◽  
Harish Ganapathy ◽  
G. Sateesh ◽  
Sarit K. Das
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Solid Particles ◽  
Heater Surface ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Characteristics

Nanofluids, solid-liquid suspensions with solid particles of size of the order of few nanometers, have created interest in many researchers because of their enhancement in thermal conductivity and convective heat transfer characteristics. Many studies have been done on the pool boiling characteristics of nanofluids, most of which have been with nanofluids containing oxide nanoparticles owing to the ease in their preparation. Deterioration in boiling heat transfer was observed in some studies. Metallic nanofluids having metal nanoparticles, which are known for their good heat transfer characteristics in bulk regime, reported drastic enhancement in thermal conductivity. The present paper investigates into the pool boiling characteristics of metallic nanofluids, in particular of Cu-H2O nanofluids, on flat copper heater surface. The results indicate that at comparatively low heat fluxes, there is deterioration in boiling heat transfer with very low particle volume fraction of 0.01%, and it increases with volume fraction and shows enhancement with 0.1%. However, the behavior is the other way around at high heat fluxes. The enhancement at low heat fluxes is due to the fact that the effect of formation of thin sorption layer of nanoparticles on heater surface, which causes deterioration by trapping the nucleation sites, is overshadowed by the increase in microlayer evaporation, which is due to enhancement in thermal conductivity. Same trend has been observed with variation in the surface roughness of the heater as well.

Heat Transfer Characteristics of the Phase Change Material Microcapsule Slurry in Solid Phase State

2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 1187-1190
Author(s):  
Yan Lai Zhang ◽  
Zhong Hao Rao ◽  
Shuang Feng Wang ◽  
Hong Zhang ◽  
Li Jun Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Rayleigh Number ◽  
Aspect Ratio ◽  
Phase State ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Rectangular Enclosure ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Change Material

This experiment is performed to investigate heat transfer characteristics with the PCM microcapsule slurry in a solid phase state at a horizontal rectangular enclosure heating from below and cooling from top. Some important parameters are taken into account such as the mass concentration of the PCM, the temperature difference between heating plate and cooling plate, Nusselt number Nu, Rayleigh number Ra and the aspect ratio (width/height) of the horizontal rectangular enclosure. Experiment is done under the thermal steady condition in the PCM microcapsule slurry. Heat transfer coefficient is measured under various temperature differences in PCM mass concentrations of 10% and 20%. And relationship with Nusselt number Nu and Rayleigh number Ra is summarized to various heights H or the aspect ratio (width/height) Ar of enclosure.

An experimental investigation of heat transfer characteristics of water based Al2O3 nanofluid operated shell and tube heat exchanger with air bubble injection technique

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaurav Thakur ◽  
Gurpreet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Al2o3 Nanoparticles ◽  
Air Bubbles ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Tube Heat Exchanger ◽  
Air Bubble ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Water Based ◽  
Shell And Tube

The thermal performance of shell and tube heat exchangers has been enhanced with the use of different techniques. Air bubble injection is one such promising and inexpensive technique that enhances the heat transfer characteristics inside shell and tube heat exchanger by creating turbulence in the flowing fluid. In this paper, experimental study on heat transfer characteristics of shell and tube heat exchanger was done with the injection of air bubbles at the tube inlet and throughout the tube with water based Al2O3 nanofluids i.e. (0.1%v/v and 0.2%v/v). The outcomes obtained for both the concentrations at two distinct injection points were compared with the case when air bubbles were not injected. The outcomes revealed that the heat transfer characteristics enhanced with nanoparticles volumetric concentration and the air bubble injection. The case where air bubbles were injected throughout the tube gave maximum enhancement followed by the cases of injection of air bubbles at the tube inlet and no air bubble injection. Besides this, water based Al2O3 nanofluid with 0.2%v/v of Al2O3 nanoparticles gave more enhancement than Al2O3nanofluid with 0.1%v/v of Al2O3 nanoparticles as the enhancement in the heat transfer characteristics is directly proportional to the volumetric concentration of nanoparticles in the base fluid. The heat transfer rate showed an enhancement of about 25-40% and dimensionless exergy loss showed an enhancement of about 33-43% when air bubbles were injected throughout the tube. Moreover, increment in the heat transfer characteristics was also found due to increase in the temperature of the hot fluid keeping the flow rate of both the heat transfer fluids constant.

Forced Convective Flow of Bingham Plastic Fluids in a Branching Channel With the Effect of T-Channel Branching Angle

2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anamika Maurya ◽  
Naveen Tiwari ◽  
R. P. Chhabra
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Length Variation ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Local Pressure ◽  
Bingham Plastic ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Branching Angle ◽  
Plastic Fluids

Abstract This work aims to explore the T-channel momentum and heat transfer characteristics with the combined effect of Bingham plastic fluids (0.01 ≤ Bn ≤ 20) behavior and geometrical variation in terms of branching angle (30 deg ≤ α ≤ 90 deg). The problem has been solved over a wide range of Reynolds number (50 ≤ Re ≤ 300) and Prandtl number (10 ≤ Pr ≤ 50). For the momentum flow, qualitative and quantitative features are analyzed in terms of streamlines, structure of yielded/unyielded regions, shear rate contours, plug width and length variation, and local pressure coefficient. These features have been represented in terms of isotherm patterns, temperature profile, Nusselt number, and its asymptotic value for heat transfer characteristics. The recirculating flows have been presented here in the vicinity of T-junction, which promote mixing and heat transfer. Broadly, the size of this zone bears a positive dependence on Re and α. However, fluid yield stress tends to suppress it. The critical Reynolds and Bingham numbers were found to be strong functions of the pertinent parameters like α. The inclination angle exerts only a weak effect on the yielded/unyielded regions and on the recirculation length of main branch. Results show a strong relationship of the plug width and length with key parameters and branches. The Nusselt number exhibits a positive relationship with α, Bn, and Re but for lower Pr in the T-junction vicinity for both branches. Such length indicates the required optimum channel length for thermal mixing.

scholarly journals A numerical investigation of the heat transfer characteristics of water-based mango bark nanofluid flowing in a double-pipe heat exchanger

Heliyon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. e02416 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.J. Onyiriuka ◽  
O.O. Ighodaro ◽  
A.O. Adelaja ◽  
D.R.E. Ewim ◽  
S. Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Numerical Investigation ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Water Based ◽  
Double Pipe ◽  
Pipe Heat
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