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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES
Volume 48, Issue 11, Pages 2119-2129Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2009.04.003
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Nanofluid; Laminar forced convection; Annulus; Heat transfer enhancement
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Laminar forced convection of a nanofluid consisting of Al2O3 and water has been studied numerically. Two dimensional elliptical governing equations have been solved to investigate the hydrodynamics and thermal behaviors of the fluid flow throughout an annulus. Single phase approach is used for the nanofluid modeling. The velocity and temperature profiles are presented in the fully developed region. The axial evolution of temperature, convective heat transfer coefficient and the friction coefficient at the inner and outer walls' region are shown and discussed. It is shown that the dimensionless axial velocity profile does not significantly change with the nanoparticle volume fraction. But, the temperature profiles are affected by the nanoparticle concentration. In general convective heat transfer coefficient increases with nanoparticle concentration. However, when the order of magnitude of heating energy is much higher than the momentum energy the friction coefficient depends on the nanoparticle concentration. At higher Reynolds numbers for which the momentum energy increases, this dependency on the nanoparticle volume fraction decreases. (c) 2009 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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