BUOYANCY-DRIVEN HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ENCLOSURE UTILIZING NANOFLUIDS

By Khalil Khanafer, Kambiz Vafai, Marilyn Lightstone. 2003

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Natural convection heat transfer enhancement in horizontal concentric annuli using nanofluids (2008, background): “[3] who studied Copper– Water nanofluids in a two dimensional rectangular enclosure.”
A critical synthesis of thermophysical characteristics of nanofluids (2011, methodology): “The thermal expansion coefficient of nanofluids can be estimated utilizing the volume fraction of the nanoparticles on a weight basis as follows [6]:”
Numerical study of laminar mixed convection of a nanofluid in a horizontal tube using two-phase mixture model (2008, neutral): “Thermal expansion coefficient [17]:”
Blasius and Sakiadis problems in nanofluids (2011, neutral): “[14], Maiga et al.”
Experimental Studies of Natural Convection Heat Transfer of Al2O3/DI Water Nanoparticle Suspensions (Nanofluids) (2010, positive): “Other heat transfer modes of nanofluids, such as natural and forced convection and boiling heat transfer, have also been investigated by a number of researchers [25–34].”
Effects of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity of Al2O3-water nanofluid on heat transfer enhancement in natural convection (2009, result): “(17) which is given as (Khanafer et al., 2003) bnf bf ¼ 1ð1 uÞ u qf qp þ 1 bp bf þ 1u ð1 uÞ qf qp þ 1 2 4 3 5 ð21Þ The dimensionless radial and tangential velocities are given as, respectively: V ¼ 1 r þ riL @w @h ; U ¼ @w @r : ð22Þ Due to the symmetry, only half of the cylinder will be solved…”
Mixed convection in superposed nanofluid and porous layers in square enclosure with inner rotating cylinder (2017, background): “On the other hand, huge studies were published utilizing the nanofluids as a heat transfer enhancement, such as Tiwari and Das [48], Khanafer et al [49], Basak and Chamkha [50], and Chamkha and Abu Nada [51].”
Mixed convection flow of a nanofluid in a lid-driven cavity with a wavy wall (2014, background): “[12] investigated the problem of buoyancy-driven heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids in a two-dimensional enclosure.”