Experimental investigations of heat transfer coefficient of CuO/Water nanofluid are reported in this paper. The heat transfer coefficient of the CuO/water was measured with the help of double pipe heat exchanger. The nanofluid was prepared by dispersing a CuOnano particle in deionized water. CuO/water nanofluid with a nominal diameter of 27nm at different volume concentrations (0.1 &0.3 vol.%) ...

Impact and friction model of nanofluid for molecular dynamics simulation was built which consists of two Cu plates and Cu-Ar nanofluid. The Cu-Ar nanofluid model consisted of eight spherical copper nanoparticles with each particle diameter of 4 nm and argon atoms as base liquid. The Lennard-Jones potential function was adopted to deal with the interactions between atoms. Thus motion states and ...

in this paper, homotopy perturbation method (hpm) has been applied to investigate the effect of magnetic field on cu-water nanofluid flow in non-parallel walls. the validity of hpm solutions were verified by comparing with numerical results obtained using a fourth order runge–kutta method. effects of active parameters on flow have been presented graphically. the results show that velocity in bo...

Nowadays external magnetic fields are capable of setting the thermal and physical properties of magnetic-nanofluids and regulate the flow and heat transfer characteristics. The strength of the applied magnetic field affects the thermal conductivity of magnetic nanofluids and makes it aeolotropic. With this incentive, we investigate the flow and heat transfer of electrically conducting liquid fi...

The problem of steady Marangoni boundary layer flow and heat transfer in a nanofluid when the wall is permeable, namely there is a suction or injection effect, is studied using different types of nanoparticles. The mathematical problem reduces to a pair of coupled ordinary differential equations by similarity transformation, which is then solved numerically using the shooting method. Three diff...

The solar gravity heat pipe has been widely used for solar thermal water heating because of its high efficient heat transfer and thermal diode characteristics. Operated on fluctuant and low intensity solar radiation conditions, a solar gravity heat pipe may frequently start up. This severely affects its solar collection performance. To enhance the thermal performance of the solar gravity heat p...

The paper aims to analyze the effects of various Prandtl number and different nanoparticles for heat transfer entropy generation free convection laminar fluid flow in an L-shaped cavity filled by nanofluid. To investigate second law characteristics convective from L- shaped geometry water nanofluids (Cu-water, Ag-water, Al2O3-water), on average Nusselt number, total Bejan has been numerically a...

In this study, the two-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer of stagnation-point flow in a nanofluid in the presence of thermal radiation is investigated. Using a similarity transform, the NavierStokes equations are reduced to a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The similarity equations are solved numerically for three types of nanoparticles, namely copper (Cu), a...

Abstract— The problem of Marangoni convection boundary layer flow in nanofluid with radiation effects is studied using different types of nanoparticles. The general governing partial differential equations are transformed into a set of two nonlinear ordinary differential equations using unique similarity transformation. Numerical solutions of the similarity equations are obtained using the Rung...

A numerical study has been carried out to investigate the heat transfer by natural convection of nanofluid taking Cu as nanoparticles and the water as based fluid in a three dimensional annulus enclosure filled with porous media (silica sand) between two horizontal concentric cylinders with 12 annular fins of 2.4mm thickness attached to the inner cylinder under steady state conditions. The gove...