TY - GEN
T1 - Numerical analysis of nanofluids in heat pipe
AU - Singh, Pawan K.
AU - Ahmed, Nouman Zahoor
AU - Ali, Mohamed Ibrahim
AU - Shatilla, Youssef
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The numerical analysis of nanofluids in heat pipe is investigated using CFD, computational fluid dynamics, software modeling, FLUENT. The modeling was completed for base fluids and validated against earlier study. The alumina-water nanofluids are used for the investigation due to availability of huge literature. The thermal conductivity and viscosity are evaluated on the basis of literature and used in the study. For the other thermo-physical properties such as density and specific heat, mass based mixture model approach has been used. To see the concentration effect of nanofluids, mixtures with volume fraction of 1, 2, 3 and 5% are considered. The nanofluids mixture assumed to be homogeneous fluid flow in this simulation. The inlet velocity boundary condition, BC, is given by two approaches, mass flow arte and volume flow rate. The results showed that the nanofluids performance is similar to the base fluids while inlet BC is constant volume flow rate. On the other hand, nanofluids enhanced the performance over the base fluid while constant mass flow rate BC is used.
AB - The numerical analysis of nanofluids in heat pipe is investigated using CFD, computational fluid dynamics, software modeling, FLUENT. The modeling was completed for base fluids and validated against earlier study. The alumina-water nanofluids are used for the investigation due to availability of huge literature. The thermal conductivity and viscosity are evaluated on the basis of literature and used in the study. For the other thermo-physical properties such as density and specific heat, mass based mixture model approach has been used. To see the concentration effect of nanofluids, mixtures with volume fraction of 1, 2, 3 and 5% are considered. The nanofluids mixture assumed to be homogeneous fluid flow in this simulation. The inlet velocity boundary condition, BC, is given by two approaches, mass flow arte and volume flow rate. The results showed that the nanofluids performance is similar to the base fluids while inlet BC is constant volume flow rate. On the other hand, nanofluids enhanced the performance over the base fluid while constant mass flow rate BC is used.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869199405&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/imece2011-63309
DO - 10.1115/imece2011-63309
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869199405
SN - 9780791854969
T3 - ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011
SP - 797
EP - 805
BT - Heat and Mass Transport Processes
T2 - ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011
Y2 - 11 November 2011 through 17 November 2011
ER -