Numerical simulation and parametric study of laminar mixed convection nanofluid flow in flat tubes using two phase mixture model | Zendy

Hamed Safikhani | Zendy; Abbas Abbassi | Zendy; Mohammad Kalteh | Zendy

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Numerical simulation and parametric study of laminar mixed convection nanofluid flow in flat tubes using two phase mixture model

Author(s) -

Hamed Safikhani,

Abbas Abbassi,

Mohammad Kalteh

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

thermal science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 2334-7163

pISSN - 0354-9836

DOI - 10.2298/tsci130415008s

Subject(s) - nanofluid , nusselt number , laminar flow , grashof number , materials science , thermodynamics , mechanics , reynolds number , combined forced and natural convection , heat flux , heat transfer , forced convection , flow (mathematics) , natural convection , physics , turbulence

In this article, the laminar mixed convection of Al2O3-Water nanofluid flow in a horizontal flat tube has been numerically simulated. The two-phase mixture model has been employed to solve the nanofluid flow, and constant heat flux has been considered as the wall boundary condition. The effects of different and important parameters such as the Reynolds number (Re), Grashof number (Gr), nanoparticles volume fraction (Φ) and nanoparticle diameter (dp) on the thermal and hydrodynamic performances of nanofluid flow have been analyzed. The results of numerical simulation were compared with similar existing data and good agreement is observed between them. It will be demonstrated that the Nusselt number (Nu) and the friction factor (Cf) are different for each of the upper, lower, left and right walls of the flat tube. The increase of Re, Gr and f and the reduction of dp lead to the increase of Nu. Similarly, the increase of Re and f results in the increase of Cf. Therefore, the best way to increase the amount of heat transfer in flat tubes using nanofluids is to increase the Gr and reduce the dp

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