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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
卷 55, 期 5-6, 页码 1475-1485出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.10.030
关键词
Nanofluid; Square cylinder; Peclet number; Thermophysical properties; Unconfined flow; Heat transfer enhancement
资金
- Thailand Research Fund
- National Research University
The momentum and forced convection heat transfer for a laminar and steady free stream flow of nanofluids past an isolated square cylinder have been studied numerically. Different nanofluids consisting of Al2O3 and CuO with base fluids of water and a 60:40 (by mass) ethylene glycol and water mixture were selected to evaluate their superiority over conventional fluids. Recent correlations for the thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanofluids, which are functions of particle volumetric concentration as well as temperature, have been employed in this paper. The simulations have been conducted for Pe = 25, 50, 100 and 200, with nanoparticle diameters of 30 and 100 nm and particle volumetric concentrations ranging from 0% to 4%. The results of heat transfer characteristics of nanofluid flow over a square cylinder showed marked improvement comparing with the base fluids. This improvement is more evident in flows with higher Peclet numbers and higher particle volume concentration, while the particle diameter imposes an adverse effect on the heat transfer characteristics. In addition, it was shown that for any given particle diameter there is an optimum value of particle concentration that results in the highest heat transfer coefficient. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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