Natural Convection Heat and Mass Transfer Modeling for Cu/Water and CuO/Water Nanofluids

A theoretical model based on the integral formalism approach for laminar external natural convection in the vicinity of a vertical wall is used to be extended to nanofluids. Two kinds of thermal boundary conditions including uniform wall temperature (UWT) and uniform heat flux (UHF) are used for thi...

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Published in:Advances in Mechanical Engineering 2013, Vol.2013 (2013), p.1-7
Main Authors: Popa, Catalin, Kasaeian, A. B., Nasiri, Sh, Korichi, A., Polidori, Guillaume
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
COMPOSITES
CONVECTION
Convection modes
Copper
COPPER OXIDE
Engineering Sciences
FLUID FLOW
Fluids mechanics
Heat transfer
MASS TRANSFER
MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
Mathematical models
Mechanics
Micro and nanotechnologies
Microelectronics
MICROSTRUCTURES
Nanocomposites
Nanofluids
Nanomaterials
Nanostructure
Thermics
Volume fraction
WATER
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Summary:A theoretical model based on the integral formalism approach for laminar external natural convection in the vicinity of a vertical wall is used to be extended to nanofluids. Two kinds of thermal boundary conditions including uniform wall temperature (UWT) and uniform heat flux (UHF) are used for this modeling. Two different nanofluids are tested, namely, Cu/water and CuO/water nanofluids for which both viscosity and thermal conductivity were determined using Brownian motion-based models. A close attention is focused on the influence due to increasing the volume fraction of nanoparticles on both the heat transfer and dynamic parameters. Results are presented only for particle volume fractions up to 4% to ensure a Newtonian behavior of the mixture. It has been found that natural convection heat transfer increases with the volume fraction for a fixed Grashof number, whatever the nanofluid is. Nevertheless, the enhancement of heat transfer is more pronounced in the case of Cu/water than for the CuO/water nanofluid. Moreover, this trend is also confirmed regarding the dynamical parameters such as the maximum velocity value within the dynamical boundary layer and the corresponding boundary layer thickness.
ISSN:1687-8132
1687-8140
1687-8140
1687-8132
DOI:10.1155/2013/863935