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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Volume 168, Issue -, Pages 67-77Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2017.04.045
Keywords
Hybrid nanofluids; Heat transfer performance; Friction factor; Identical pumping power; PEC
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21506032, 91534106]
- Distinguished Young Researcher Training Project in Universities of Fujian Province [83016023]
- Fuzhou University Qishan Scholar (Overseas Project) [XRC-1458]
- open test fund of precious instrument and equipment of Fuzhou University [2017T033]
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In the study, a mathematical model of hybrid nanofluids was established with the consideration of nanoparticles migration, which has significant influence on the thermophysical properties of hybrid nanofluids. In order to investigate heat transfer and friction factor characteristics of hybrid nanofluids in a channel, the corresponding governing equations were solved by using the Runge-Kutta-Gill method. A Performance Evaluation Criteria (PEC) was used to assess heat transfer performance of hybrid nanofluids under identical pumping power. Two hybrid nanofluids, which are alumina-titania/water nanofluid and alumina-zirconia/water nanofluid, respectively, were discussed. The results clearly indicated that alumina-titania/water nanofluid exhibits higher Nusselt number and lower friction factor than alumina-zirconia/water nanofluid. Moreover, it has been found that with the variation of volume fraction ratio of two single-particle nanofluids, maximum PEC values of alumina-titania/water nanofluid were observed, proving that alumina-titania/water nanofluid has better heat transfer performance than either alumina/water nanofluid or titania/water nanofluid under identical pumping power. The effects of NBri variation and N-BT2 variation of alumina-titania/water nanofluid on Nusselt number and friction factor were also investigated. It is interesting to note that minimum PEC values were observed under the variation of N-BT2 When N-BT1/N-BT2 is approximately 6. However, maximum PEC values were observed under the variation of NBT1 whenN(BT1)/N-BT2 is approximately 0.5. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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