Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1704078 Applied Mathematical Modelling 2014 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this work, forced convective heat transfer of nanofluid in the developing laminar flow (entrance region) in a circular tube is considered. The nanofluid thermal conductivity, as an important parameter, is considered as two parts: static and dynamic part. Simulated results show that the dynamic part of nanofluid thermal conductivity due to the Brownian motion has a minor effect on the heat transfer coefficients, on the other hand, static part of thermal conductivity including nanolayer around nanoparticle has an important role in heat transfer.

Related Topics
Physical Sciences and Engineering Engineering Computational Mechanics
Authors
, ,