Interfacial tension and viscosity of a liquid play an important role in microfluidic systems. In this study, temperature dependence of surface tension, interfacial tension and viscosity of a nanofluid are investigated for its applicability in droplet-based microfluidics. Experimental results show that nanofluid having TiO2 nanoparticles of 15 nm diameters in deionized water exhibit substantiall...

In this study, a performance evaluation of photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system using nanofluids was carried out through an efficiency comparison study water, CuO-water, and Al2O3-water as the heat medium PVT system. addition, model for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis established, validity verified by comparing it with experimental results Through this, confirmed that outlet temperatur...

This research is a novel experimental work on cooling solar panels using hydrogel beads saturated with Al2O3 water based nanofluid. Nanofluid of concentrations 0.1, 0.25, and 0.5% wt. were used compared to the only cooled uncooled PV panels. A passive system was created three layers nanofluid hydrogels attached back surface exposed panels, fixed radiation intensities 800 1000 W/m2. Using 0.5%wt...

in this study, flow field and heat transfer of al2o3-cu/water micropolar hybrid nanofluid is investigated in a permeable channel using the least square method. the channel is encountered to chemical reaction, and a constant magnetic field is also applied. the bottom wall is hot and coolant fluid is injected into the channel from the top wall. the effects of different parameters such as the reyn...

The present paper focuses on problem of mixed convection fluid flow and heat transfer of Al2O3-water nanofluid with temperature and nanoparticles concentration dependent thermal conductivity and effective viscosity inside Lid-driven cavity having a hot rectangular obstacle. The governing equations are discretized using the finite volume method while the SIMPLER algorithm is employed to couple v...

In this study, enhancements of thermal conductivities of ethylene glycol, water, and synthetic engine oil in the presence of copper (Cu), copper oxide (CuO), and multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT) are investigated using both physical mixing method (two-step method) and chemical reduction method (one-step method). The chemical reduction method is, however, used only for nanofluid containing Cu ...

laminar mixed convection of aluminium oxide (al2o3)–water nanofluid flow in an inclined annulus using a single-phase approach was numerically studied. constant heat flux boundary conditions were applied on the inner and outer walls. all the thermophysical properties of nanofluid, such as, viscosity, heat capacity, thermal conductivity, and thermal expansion coefficient, except density in the bo...

In this paper, mixed convection of Al2O3-EG-Water nanofluid in a square lid-driven enclosure is investigated numerically. The focus of this study is on the effects of variable thermophysical properties of the nanofluid on the heat transfer characteristics. The top moving and the bottom stationary horizontal walls are insulated, while the vertical walls are kept at different constant temperature...

In this article, the instable fluid velocity in the pipes with internal nanofluid is studied. The fluid is mixed by SiO2, AL2O3, CuO and TiO2 nanoparticles in which the equivalent characteristic of nanofluid is calculated by rule of mixture. The force induced by the nanofluid is assumed in radial direction and is obtained by Navier-Stokes equation considering viscosity of nanofluid. The displac...