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 present work is an experimental study of steady state convective heat transfer of de-ionized water with a (0.04% by volume) volume fraction of al2o3 nanoparticles dispersed to form a nanofluid that flows through an aluminium tube.laminar fully developed flow heat transfer coefficient of al2o3 nanoparticles are dispersed in water in circular tube is discussed in this paper. in order to valid...

the present study investigated the effect of distilled-water/ silver nanofluid on heat transfer in a closed cooling system of one of the electrical energy generation units at isfahan power plant. the difference between this study and previous researches refers to silver properties which have a high thermal conductivity and is non-toxic, hydrophilic and eco-friendly. distilled water/ silver nano...

the term nanofluids was first coined by sir stephen choi in 1995 at argonne national laboratory ,u.s.a .since the discovery, nanofluid have been explored as heat transfer fluids. nanofluids increased the thermal conductivity of existing coolants (water, ethylene glycol) by a magnitude of hundred times which made them attractive for miniaturization of electronic devices .from 1995 till 2008 nano...

In the present paper, we have focused our attention to highlight the study of a non-Newtonian nanofluid between coaxial cylinders with variable viscosity. The governing equations of the nonNewtonian fluid with variable viscosity along with energy and nanoparticles are given. The coupled nonlinear differential equations are solved analytically with the help of the homotopy analysis method (HAM)....

Transport properties of nanofluids are extensively studied last decade. This has been motivated by the use of nanosized systems in various applications. The viscosity of nanofluids is of great significance as the application of nanofluids is always associated with their flow. However, despite the fairly large amount of available experimental information, there is a lack of systematic data on th...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of magnetic field on the fluid flow and natural convection of CuO-water nanofluids with variable properties in an inclined square enclosure. The horizontal walls of cavity are insulated, the left sidewall assumed as hot wall and the right sidewall assumed as cold wall. Effects of Rayleigh numbers 103, 104, 105</su...

Natural convection heat transfer has many applications in different fields of industry; such as cooling industries, electronic transformer devices and ventilation equipment; due to simple process, economic advantage, low noise and renewed retrieval. Recently, heat transfer of nanofluids have been considered because of higher thermal conductivity coefficient compared with those of ordinary fluid...

In this work, a theoretical model with numerical solution is brought forward for bio-nanofluid varying fluid features over slippery sheet. The partial differential equations (PDEs) involving temperature-dependent quantities have been translated into ordinary (ODEs) by using similarity variables. Numerical verifications done in three different methods: finite difference method, shooting and bvp4...

A water-based functionalized nanofluid was made by surface functionalizing the ordinary silica nanoparticles. The functionalized nanofluid can keep long-term stability. and no sedimentation was observed. The functionalized nanofluid as the working fluid is applied in a thermosyphon to understand the effect of this special nanofluid on the thermal performance of the thermosyphon. The experiment ...