A study on Brinkman number variation on water based nanofluid heat transfer in partially heated tubes |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics, Quaid-I-Azam University, 45320, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan;2. Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics (NAAM) Research Group, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P. O. Box 80257, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia;3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom;4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar, Pakistan |
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| Abstract: | Even if the variation of Nusselt number with Reynolds number has been observed before, little to no studies are concerning nanofluids. The present numerical data in the laminar regime were also found to correlate well with the Brinkman number for the individual sets and much better globally, by combining all the data sets for nanofluids and water.Thus, this work proposes a new correlation between heat transfer rate and Brinkman number which is a nondimensional number of viscosity, flow velocity and temperature. The results showed a good empirical equation that Nu/(Re0.62 Pr0.33) is dependent on a power law function to the Brinkman number in laminar flow regime. The proposed correlation can be applied both to water and nanofluid flow, with respect to the nanoparticle loading. It is expected that the equation suggested by this work can be useful to design heating/cooling devices. |
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| Keywords: | Nanofluid Numerical Convection Laminar |
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