Turbulent convective heat transfer of nanofluids through a square channel

Mohammad Nasiri; Seyed Gholamreza Etemad; Rohollah Bagheri

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.28, No.12, 2230-2235, December, 2011

DOI10.1007/s11814-011-0103-8 Export Citation

Turbulent convective heat transfer of nanofluids through a square channel

Mohammad Nasiri, Seyed Gholamreza Etemad^†, and Rohollah Bagheri

Department of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84154-83111, Iran

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This paper reports the results of experimental investigation on the heat transfer performance of Al2O3/H2O and TiO2/H2O nanofluids through square channel with constant wall temperature boundary condition. The flow regime through channel is turbulent. The nanofluids used in this research are Al2O3/H2O and TiO2/H2O with different nanoparticle concentrations. Based on the results of the present investigation, for specific Peclet number, convective heat transfer coefficient and Nusselt number of nanofluids are higher than those of distilled water. The enhancement increases with increasing nanoparticle concentration. The results also reveal that the convective heat transfer coefficient for Al2O3/H2O nanofluid is relatively the same as that of TiO2/H2O nanofluid.

Keywords:Nanofluid;Square Channel;Heat Transfer Coefficient;Nusselt Number;Nanoparticle

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[Referenced By]

[1] Choi SUS, in American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FED, 231, 99 (1995)

[2] Lee S, Choi SUS, Li S, Eastman JA, J. Heat Transf., 121, 280 (1999)

[3] Eastman JA, Choi SUS, Li S, Yu W, Thompson LJ, Appl. Phys. Lett., 78(6), 718 (2001)

[4] Xiang Q, Wang XQ, Mujumdar AS, Brazilian J. Chem. Eng., 25, 631 (2008)

[5] Santra AK, Sen S, Chakraborty N, Int. J. Therm. Sci., 48, 391 (2009)

[6] Shahi M, Mahmoodi AH, Talebi F, Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. (2011)

[7] Li YJ, Zhou JE, Tung S, Schneider E, Xi SQ, Powder Technol., 196(2), 89 (2009)

[8] Pak BC, Cho YI, Exp. Heat Transf., 11(2), 151 (1998)

[9] Eastman JA, Choi SUS, Li S, Soyez G, Thompson LJ, DiMelfi RJ, Material Sci. Forum., 312, 629 (1999)

[10] Xuan Y, Li Q, J. Heat Transf., 125(1), 151 (2003)

[11] Zhou DW, Int. J. Heat Mass Transf., 47(20) (2004)

[12] Yang Y, Zhang ZG, Grulke EA, Anderson WB, Wu G, Int. J. Heat Mass Transf., 48 (2005)

[13] Zeinali Heris S, Gh S, Etemad, Nasr Esfahany M, Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transf., 33, 526 (2006)

[14] Ding Y, Chen H, He Y, Lapkin A, Yeganeh M, Siller L, Butenko YV, Adv. Powder Technol., 18(6) (2007)

[15] Williams W, Buongiorno J, Hu LW, ASME J. Heat Transf., 130(1), 42412 (2008)

[16] Duangthongsuk W, Wongwises S, Int. J. Heat Mass Transf., 52(71) (2009)

[17] Etemad SG, Farajollahi B, Hajipour M, Thibault J, Accepted for publication at J. Enhanced Heat Transf.

[18] Hojjat M, Etemad SG, Bagheri R, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 27(5), 1391 (2010)

[19] Vajjha RS, Das DK, Kulkarni DP, Int. J. Heat Mass Transf., 53(21-22), 4607 (2010)

[20] Zamzamian A, Oskouie SN, Doosthoseini A, Joneidi A, Pazouki M, Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci., 35, 495 (2011)

[21] Heris S, Esfahany M, Etemad SG, Int. J. Heat. Fluid Flow., 28(2), 203 (2007)

[22] Maxwell JC, A treatise on electricity and magnetism, 2nd Ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford, U.K. (1881)

[23] Zhou SQ, Ni R, Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 93 (2008)

[24] Izad M, Behzadmehr A, Jalali-Vahida D, Int. J. Therm. Sci., 48(11), 2119 (2009)

[25] Einstein A, Annalen der Physik., 19(2), 289 (1906)

[26] Dittus FW, Boelter LMK, Univ. Calif. Publ. Eng., 2(13), 443 (1930)

[27] Mirmasoumi S, Behzadmehr A, Int. J. Heat. Fluid Flow., 29, 566 (2008)