• Title of article

    NUMERICAL STUDY OF LAMINAR FORCED CONVECTION OF WATER/Al2O3 NANOFLUID IN AN ANNULUS WITH CONSTANT WALL TEMPERATURE

  • Author/Authors

    KASHANI, A. sahand university of technology - Department of Mechanical Engineering, تبريز, ايران , JALALI-VAHID, D. sahand university of technology - Department of Mechanical Engineering, تبريز, ايران , HUSSAINPOUR, S. sahand university of technology - Department of Mechanical Engineering, تبريز, ايران

  • From page
    77
  • To page
    92
  • Abstract
    In this paper, laminar forced convection of a nanofluid consisting of water and Al2O3 in a horizontal annulus has been studied numerically. A two-phase mixture model has been used to investigate thermal behaviors of the nanofluid over constant temperature thermal boundary condition and with different volume concentration of nanoparticles. Comparisons with previously published both experimental and analytical works on flow behavior in horizontal annulus show good agreements between the results as volume fraction is zero. In general, convective heat transfer coefficient increases with nanoparticle concentration.
  • Keywords
    nanofluid , volume concentration , heat transfer enhancement , laminar flow convection , annulus.
  • Journal title
    IIUM Engineering Journal
  • Journal title
    IIUM Engineering Journal
  • Record number

    2558217