A. Maouassi^a,b,*, A. Baghidja^a,b, S. Douad^c , N. Zeraibi^c

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-7, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.35

Abstract This paper illustrates how practical application of nanofluids as working fluid to enhance solar flat plate collector efficiency. A numerical investigation of laminar convective heat transfer flow throw a solar collector is conducted, by using CuO-water nanofluids. The effectiveness of these nanofluids is compared to conventional working fluid (water), wherein Reynolds number and nanoparticle volume concentration in the ranges of 25– 900 and 0–10 % respectively. The effects of Reynolds number and nanoparticles concentration on the skin-friction and heat transfer coefficients are presented and discussed later in this paper. Results show that the heat transfer increases with increasing both nanoparticles… More >

S.P. Samrat, C. Sulochana^* , G.P. Ashwinkumar

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-8, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.31

Abstract This study reports the flow, thermal and concentration attributes of magnetic-nanofluids past an elongated plate with thermal radiation and chemical reaction. The flow considered is two-dimensional and time-dependent. The pressure gradient and ohmic heating terms are neglected in this analysis. The flow governing PDEs are transformed into ODEs using appropriate conversions. Further, the set of ODEs are solved analytically using perturbation technique. The flow quantities such as velocity, thermal and concentration fields are discussed under the influence of various pertinent parameters namely volume fraction of nanoparticle, magnetic field, stretching parameter, Soret number, radiation and chemical reaction with the assistance of… More >

Mohammed Yunus^*, Mohammad S. Alsoufi

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.12, pp. 1-8, 2019, DOI:10.5098/hmt.12.11

Abstract Swift cooling systems, improved microprocessor chips, processors’ performance and power usage have increased production of an enormous amount of heat and high operating temperatures due to excess heat flux density in the field of microelectronics. A rapid cooling of electronic circuits and heat dissipation for the same size of pipe with the present technology as nano size circuits critically generate high heat flux beyond 100 W/cm2 is currently the challenging task with which we are presented. Cooling in the form of heat transfer should be managed using both thermal conductivity (evaporation) and phase transition (condensation) between the two solid interfaces… More >

Rahouadja Zarita^*, Madjid Hachemi

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.12, pp. 1-12, 2019, DOI:10.5098/hmt.12.5

Abstract In this work, heat transfer enhancement in a microchannel using water-Ag nanofluid has been investigated numerically by the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) by adopting the stream and collide algorithm, with the (BGK) approximation. The base fluid and the suspended nanoparticles are considered as a homogeneous mixture. And single phase model with first order slip and jump boundary conditions has been adopted. Thermophysical properties of water-Ag nanofluid are estimated by the theoretical models. Effects of change in nanoparticle volume fractions, Reynolds number and Knudsen number are considered. It was concluded that change in nanoparticle volume fractions did not have significant effects… More >

H. Astuti^a, P. Sri^b, S. Kaprawi^a,†

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.13, pp. 1-8, 2019, DOI:10.5098/hmt.13.3

Abstract The natural convection of the nanofluids from a vertical accelerated plate in the presence of the radiation flux and magnetic field is observed in this study. Initially, the plate with a temperature higher than the temperature of nanofluids is at rest and then it accelerates moving upward and then the wall temperature decreases. The governing unsteady equations are solved by the explicit method based on the forward finite difference. Three different types of water-based nanofluids containing copper Cu, aluminum oxide Al₂O₃ and titanium dioxide TiO₂ are taken into consideration. The hydrodynamic and thermal performance of the nanofluids is calculated. The… More >

S. Ravi Teja^a , Chellapilla V. K. N. S. N. Moorthy^b,*, S. Jayakumar^c , Ayyagari Kiran Kumar^d , V. Srinivas^c,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.15, pp. 1-9, 2020, DOI:10.5098/hmt.15.7

Abstract This article is a summary of research involving the evaluation of the thermo-physical properties of Mono-ethylene - glycol-based solar thermic fluids oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Nanofluids were prepared with Mono-ethylene glycol and water as base fluids in 100:0, 90:10 and 80:20 ratios. These base fluids of three categories were dispersed with purified and oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) in the weight fractions of 0.125, 0.25 and 0.5 percentages. The variation in zeta potential is studied to examine the dispersion stability during 2 months. Thermal conductivity and dynamic viscosity were measured by hot disk method and Anton paar viscometer respectively. Significant… More >

Xi Wang¹, Shan Qing^1,*, Zhumei Luo^1,*, Yiqin Liu^1,2, Zichang Shi¹, Jiachen Li¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.9, pp. 2399-2416, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2023.028024

Abstract Propylene glycol-based MWCNT (multi-walled carbon nanotubes) nanofluids were prepared in the framework of a two-step method and by using a suitable PVP (polyvinyl pyrrolidone) dispersant. The BBD (Box-Behnken design) model was exploited to analyze 17 sets of experiments and examine the sensitivity of the absorbance to three parameters, namely the concentration of MWCNT, the SN ratio (mass ratio of carbon nanotubes to surfactants) and the sonication time. The results have revealed that, while the SN ratio and concentration of MWCNT have a strong effect on the absorbance, the influence of the sonication time is less important. The statistical method of… More >

Kaprawi Sahim^*, Dewi Puspitasari, Nukman

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.16, pp. 1-6, 2021, DOI:10.5098/hmt.16.22

Abstract The recent trend application of the nanofluids is used in some industrial equipment such as tube heat exchanger, double pipe exchanger and shell-tube type heat exchanger. The Triangle tubes may be used in the heat exchanger. Thus, this experimental study reports the convective heat transfer performance of the aluminum oxide-water nanofluids flowing in the triangle channel. In this study, the amount of the volume fraction of the Al₂O₃ used was 0.1 %, 0.2 %, and 0.3 respectively in base-water as the nanofluids and the Reynolds numbers were varied from about 1000 to 7000. The channel was heated by the electric… More >

Kafel Azeez Mohammed^a,*, Ahmed Mustaffa Saleem^b , Zain alabdeen H. Obaid^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.16, pp. 1-8, 2021, DOI:10.5098/hmt.16.20

Abstract Numerical investigation is performed for the determination of Nusselt number of ZnO, TiO₂ and SiO₂ nanoparticles dispersed in 60% ethylene glycol and 40% water inside inclined cylinder for adiabatic and isothermal process. The present study was conducted for both the constant heat flux (10,000 W/m²) and constant wall temperature (313.15 K) boundary conditions. At the inlet, the uniform axial velocity and initial temperature (293 K) were assumed. The results show the change of average Nusselt number at Reynolds number (400), Rayleigh number (10⁶) and volume fraction percentage (2%). From results for adiabatic process when increasing the slop up to (45o),… More >

Husam Abdulrasool Hasan^a,*, Jenan S. Sherza^a, Lammiaa Abdulrudah Abd^a, Kayser Aziz Ameen^a, Azher M. Abed^b, Ali Arif hatem^a, Kamaruzzaman Sopian^c

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.18, pp. 1-8, 2022, DOI:10.5098/hmt.18.45

Abstract In a Fresnel-based Concentrated Photovoltaic system, multi junction solar cells suffer from increased PV temperature, resulting in a decrease its electrical efficiency. This study design to investigate the influence of using Water/Al₂O₃ Nanofluid as cooling fluid on heat transfer enhancement and top surface temperature for multi-junction solar cell in the Fresnel-based Concentrated Photovoltaic thermal CPVt System. The CFD simulation was conducted on mini-channel under the concentrated multi-junction solar cell with using water/Al₂O₃ Nanofluid and pure water as coolant fluids. The Reynolds number is in the range of 15000-30000 were examined. The average Nusselt numbers augmented through increasing Reynolds numbers. The… More >