NATURAL CONVECTION IN SQUARE ENCLOSURES DIFFERENTIALLY HEATED AT SIDES USING ALUMINA-WATER NANOFLUIDS WITH TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

Abstract

Laminar natural convection of Al2O3 + H2O nanofluids inside square avities differentially heated at sides is studied numerically. A computational ode based on the SIMPLE-C algorithm is used for the solution of the system f the mass, momentum and energy transfer governing equations. Assuming hat the nanofluid behaves like a single-phase fluid, these equations are the ame as those valid for a pure fluid, provided that the thermophysical roperties appearing in them are the nanofluid effective properties. The hermal conductivity and dynamic viscosity of the nanofluid are calculated y means of a couple of empirical equations based on a wide variety of xperimental data reported in the literature. The other effective properties re evaluated by the conventional mixing theory. Simulations are performed or different values of the nanoparticle volume fraction in the range 00.06, he diameter of the suspended nanoparticles in the range 25 100 nm, the emperature of the cooled sidewall in the range 293313 K, the temperature f the heated sidewall in the range 298343 K, and the Rayleigh number of he base fluid in the range 103107. All computations are executed in the ypothesis of temperature-dependent effective properties. The main result btained is the existence of an optimal particle loading for maximum heat ransfer, that is found to increase as the size of the suspended nanoparticles s decreased, and the nanofluid average temperature is increased.

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Dates

  • Submission Date2012-03-28
  • Revision Date2012-01-31
  • Acceptance Date2012-05-02

DOI Reference

10.2298/TSCI120328111C

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