CFD simulations on natural convection heat transfer of alumina-water nanofluid with Brownian motion effect in a 3-D enclosure

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 Mechanical Engineering Department, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

2 Mechanical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The CFD simulation has been undertaken concerning natural convection heat transfer of a nanofluid in vertical square enclosure, whose dimension, width height length (mm), is 40 40 90, respectively. The nanofluid used in the present study is -water with various volumetric fractions of the alumina nanoparticles ranging from 0-3%. The Rayleigh number is . Fluent v6.3 is used to simulate nanofluid considering it as a single phase. The effect of Brownian motion on the heat transfer is examined. A comparison between the two studies of with and without the Brownian motion, shows that when the Brownian motion is considered, the solid volume fraction of nanoparticles has dissimilar effects on the heat transfer. The numerical results show a decrease in heat transfer with increase in particle volume fraction considering Brownian motion effects. Moreover, computed result demonstrates an increase of Nusselt number with Rayleigh number as depicted by experimental results.

Highlights

- Natural convection in an enclosure filled with a nanofluid has been studied numerically.
- The numerical simulation has been carried out using the CFD approach.
- The effect of Brownian motion of nanoparticles on the heat transfer was examined.
- Heat transfer decreases was nanoparticles increase, considering the Brownian motion effect.
- The Nusselt number increases with the Rayleigh number.

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Journal of Particle Science and Technology
Volume 2, Issue 3
September 2016
Pages 163-171

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  • Receive Date: 05 December 2016
  • Revise Date: 02 April 2017
  • Accept Date: 20 July 2017

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