TY - JOUR
T1 - Combined effect of magnetic field and nanofluid variable properties on heat transfer enhancement in natural convection
AU - Mahmoudi, Amir Houshang
AU - Abu-Nada, Eiyad
PY - 2013/3/15
Y1 - 2013/3/15
N2 - The current work investigated, numerically, enhancement of heat transfer in natural convection using CuO-water nanofluid in the presence of a magnetic field. The governing equations were discretized using the control volume method and solved numerically via the SIMPLE algorithm. For the case of absence of a magnetic field and for low Rayleigh number, the heat transfer was almost insensitive to the presence of nanoparticles. For moderate and high Rayleigh numbers, the presence of nanoparticles had an adverse effect on heat transfer at high volume fraction of nanoparticles. The highest reduction in heat transfer was registered for the case of Ra = 105. Contour maps are generated for the normalized Nusselt number (Nu*) to determine the optimum selection of volume fraction of nanoparticles and magnetic field that gives maximum heat transfer enhancement. The results demonstrated the effectiveness and practicality of using high values of magnetic field in enhancing heat transfer using nanofluids.
AB - The current work investigated, numerically, enhancement of heat transfer in natural convection using CuO-water nanofluid in the presence of a magnetic field. The governing equations were discretized using the control volume method and solved numerically via the SIMPLE algorithm. For the case of absence of a magnetic field and for low Rayleigh number, the heat transfer was almost insensitive to the presence of nanoparticles. For moderate and high Rayleigh numbers, the presence of nanoparticles had an adverse effect on heat transfer at high volume fraction of nanoparticles. The highest reduction in heat transfer was registered for the case of Ra = 105. Contour maps are generated for the normalized Nusselt number (Nu*) to determine the optimum selection of volume fraction of nanoparticles and magnetic field that gives maximum heat transfer enhancement. The results demonstrated the effectiveness and practicality of using high values of magnetic field in enhancing heat transfer using nanofluids.
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U2 - 10.1080/10407782.2013.733182
DO - 10.1080/10407782.2013.733182
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84873333515
SN - 1040-7782
VL - 63
SP - 452
EP - 472
JO - Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications
JF - Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications
IS - 6
ER -