The forced convective heat transfer (CHT) coefficient of a particular nanofluid, Al2O3 nanoparticles-ethylene glycol (EG) mixture, was investigated experimentally in a double-pipe heat exchanger. The nanofluid Nusselt number for different nanoparticles’ concentrations as well as various operating temperatures was measured to be increased up to 23.7% using 1.0% wt of nanoparticles. The significa...

An experimental investigation was carried out to study mixed convection heat transfer from Al2O3-water nanofluid inside a vertical, W-shaped, copper-tube with uniform wall temperature. The tests covered different ranges of some involved parameters including Reynolds number, temperature and particles volume fraction. The results showed that the rate of heat transfer coefficient improved with Rey...

Turbulent heat transfer and hybrid Al2O3-Cu-nanofluid over vertical double forward facing-step is numerically conducted. The k-? standard model based on finite volume method in 2-D are applied to investigate the influences of Reynolds number, step height, fractions thermal performance. In this paper, different heights for three cases forward-facing adopted by five (Al2O3-Cu-water) nanofluid var...

The enhancement of the thermal performance of Vacuum Tube Solar Collectors (VTSC) was studied by using alumina nanofluid as working fluid. VTSC is a simple and commonly utilized type of collector. This study established the heat transfer experimental model of all glass VTSCs used in a forced-circulation solar water heating system using alumina nanofluid as base fluid. Al2O3 (with an average par...

In this investigation, the analysis of heat transfer coefficient a shell, helically coiled convergent-divergent tube exchanger has been carried out by utilizing Al2O3/water nanofluid. The nanofluid was prepared using two-stage technique with proportions 0.1vol%, 0.3vol%, and 0.5vol%. inner coefficient, overall Nusselt number were analyzed it found that is increased, increase dean particle volum...

This work presents the effect of nanoparticles (Al2O3 and TiO2) on methyl ester synthesized from palm kernel oil for oil-filled power equipment. It investigates loss tangent, AC conductivity, breakdown strength ester-based nanofluid. The surface was functionalized with oleic acid before dispersing it into to modify stability mixture. Scanning electron microscopy coupled dispersive X-ray done tw...

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...

Abstract   This study is applied Lattice Boltzmann Method to investigate the natural convection flow utilizing nanofluids in a concentric annulus. A numerical strategy presents for dealing with curved boundaries of second order accuracy for both velocity and temperature fields. The fluid between the cylinders is a water-based nanofluid containing different types of nanoparticles: copper (Cu), a...

in the present study, computational fluid dynamics (cfd) techniques and artificial neural networks (ann) are used to predict the pressure drop value (δp ) of al2o3-water nanofluid in flat tubes. δp  is predicted taking into account five input variables: tube flattening (h), inlet volumetric flow rate (qi  ), wall heat flux (qnw  ), nanoparticle volume fraction (φ) and nanoparticle diameter (dp ...