The entropy generation analysis of fully turbulent convective heat transfer to nanofluids in a circular tube is investigated numerically using the Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) model. The nanofluids with particle concentration of 0%, 1%, 2%, 4% and 6% are treated as single phases of effective properties. The uniform heat flux is enforced at the tube wall. To confirm the validity of the...

This paper presents results of investigations on the application of CuO-water nanofluids for intensification of convective heat transfer. Performance of nanofluids with 2.2 and 4.0 vol.% CuO NPs (nanoparticles) content were examined with regard to heat transfer coefficient and pressure losses in case of turbulent flow in a tube. Negligible impact of examined nanofluid on heat transfer improveme...

According to the extent of fungal infections, to be chronic these such diseases and recently the emerging issue of increased antibiotic resistance in fungal infections, most of scientists are going to find a proper way to replace antibacterial agent by significant semiconductor ZnO nanoparticles (NPs). They are well known to be one of the most important and special metal oxide nanoparticles in ...

Traditionally water-ethylene glycol mixture based nanofluids are used in cold regions as a coolant in the car radiators. In the present study, the rheological properties of water-ethylene glycol based graphene oxide nanofluid are studied using Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics (NEMD) method at different temperatures, volume concentrations, and shear rates. NEMD simulations are perfor...

In the present work, a theoretical model based on the integral formalism approach for both laminar and turbulent external free convection is extended to Newtonian nanofluids. By using an empirical model for computing nanofluid viscosity, a close attention is focused first on the way the heat transfer is modified by increasing the volume fraction of nanoparticles and then to the transitional thr...

In recent times, nanofluids have been studied by their thermal properties due to their variety of applications that range from photothermal therapy and radiofrequency hyperthermia (which have proven their potential use as coadjutants in these medical treatments for cancer diseases) to next-generation thermo-fluids. In this work, photoacoustic spectroscopy for a specific study of thermal diffusi...

Nano fluids are having wide area of applications in heat transfer equipments. In the present work graphene nanoparticles, Dispersed in De-ionized water (DI), Ethylene Glycol (EG) based nano fluids were developed. Thermal conductivity and convective heat transfer properties of these nanofluids were systematically investigated. In the present investigation thermal convection of glycol based nanof...

Ethanol-based nanofluids have attracted much attention due to the enhancement in heat transfer and their potential applications in nanofluid-type fuels and thermal storage. Most research has been conducted on ethanol-based nanofluids containing various nanoparticles in low mass fraction; however, to-date such studies based on high weight fraction of nanoparticles are limited due to the poor sta...

In this study, thermal and heat transfer characteristics of nano based PCM during energy storage and release processes were investigated. This work also presented the preparation of nanofluid, which is solid-liquid composite material consisting of TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) embedded into melting palmitic acid. Size of the TiO2 nanoparticles synthesized by sol-gel method was measured by using tran...

this work presents a model for calculating the effective ‎thermal conductivity of nanofluids. the proposed model ‎includes the effects of nanoparticles and thermal conductivity ‎base fluid.we will focus on experimental of the volume ‎concentration parameter and temperature on thermal ‎conductivity, nano-fluid combination and multi-walled ‎carbon nanotubes-oxide / copper-paid deionized water. th...