... of the nanofluid could be raised by 10.58% and 11.34% in comparison to the base liquid when the concentration of copper nanoparticles was 0.01 wt%. As the concentration of nanoparticles rises higher, spray cooling's ability to transfer heat is hampered. Adding the surfactant Tween-20 could effectively improve...

...B. Venkateswarlu; Sung Chul Kim; Sang Woo Joo; Santosh Chavan This study delves into the realm of numerical investigation of the heat transfer performance of nanofluids as coolants for prismatic batteries. Nanofluids are being employed in battery cooling systems to enhance overall thermal...

... of nanofluids as the working fluid is investigated. For this purpose, a mathematical model is developed, validated, and used to predict the temperature gain, heat gain, exergy gain, and pressure loss of the working fluid for different concentrations of additive ceramic nanoparticles of aluminum oxide (Al 2 O 3...

...Yasser M. Abdellatif; Eric C. Okonkwo; AbdlMonem H. Beitelmal; Tareq Al-Ansari Nanofluids consist of nanoparticles made of materials with high thermal conductivity suspended in a base fluid such as water. In theory, the presence of thermally conductive nanoparticles in a base fluid improves...

...Deepak Khurana; Sudhakar Subudhi The present paper deals with the forced convection and pressure drop of Al 2 O 3 /water and TiO 2 /water nanofluids with the presence of inserts in a circular tube. The constant heat flux is maintained around the copper tube with the help of a nichrome wire heater...

...Alamir H. Hassan; M. A. M. Hassan; Mohamed H. Shedid Specific heat is a vital characteristic of nanofluids. The present work is an experimental assessment for the isobaric specific heat measurements for the Al 2 O 3 nanoparticle dispersed in a base fluid of different mixture of ethylene glycol...

...Ajay Vallabh; P. S. Ghoshdastidar This paper presents a steady-state heat transfer model for the natural convection of mixed Newtonian-Non-Newtonian (Alumina-water) and pure non-Newtonian (Alumina-0.5 wt% Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC)/water) nanofluids in a square enclosure with adiabatic...

...Deepak Khurana; Sudhakar Subudhi The present paper deals with the forced convection of Al 2 O 3 /water and TiO 2 /water nanofluids with the variation of pH and addition of surfactant in nanofluids. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of suspension stability on the heat transfer...

...Deepak Kumar; Aditya Kumar; Sudhakar Subudhi The present paper investigates the buoyancy induced flow and heat transfer in a square enclosure filled with Fe 3 O 4 /water nanofluid heated by mutually orthogonal heaters and symmetrically cooled by sidewalls under the influence of a strong uniform...

...Emanuele Zanetti; Simone Dugaria; Francesca Biscaglia; Filippo Agresti; Laura Fedele; Moreno Meneghetti; Davide Del Col Single-wall carbon nanohorn (SWCNHs)-based nanofluids have been proven to be promising media for the direct absorption of solar radiation due to their favorable optical properties...

...Tarikayehu Amanuel; Manish Mishra Comparative analysis of the thermal and hydraulic performance of three-fluid tubular heat exchanger has been carried out numerically. Single-phase and multi-phase approaches for the turbulent flow of CuO–water nanofluids have been applied. The effect of Reynolds...

...L. Syam Sundar; E. Venkata Ramana; Zafar Said; António M.B. Pereira; Antonio C.M. Sousa The friction factor, thermal performance, and heat transfer are experimentally analyzed for reduced-graphene oxide/cobalt oxide (rGO/CO 3 O 4 ) hybrid nanomaterial-based nanofluid circulating in a plain tube...

... characteristics are simultaneously tried to achieve in case of cooling from a very high initial temperature (900 °C). The information on quenching technology depicting all the above-mentioned advantages has not been reported in the literature. In the present work, kerosene–water, nanofluid (Al 2 O 3 = 0.15...

...S. V. Sridhar; R. Karuppasamy; G. D. Sivakumar In this investigation, the performance of the shell and tube heat exchanger operated with tin nanoparticles-water (SnO 2 -W) and silver nanoparticles-water (Ag-W) nanofluids was experimentally analyzed. SnO 2 -W and Ag-W nanofluids were prepared...

...Eric C. Okonkwo; Humphrey Adun; Akinola A. Babatunde; Muhammad Abid; Tahir A.H. Ratlamwala The paper presents an entropy generation minimization study for a solar parabolic trough collector (PTC) operating with SiO 2 –water nanofluid using a genetic algorithm (GA) and artificial neural network (ANN...

...Dale A. McCants; Andrew M. Hayes; Titan C. Paul; Jamil A. Khan; Aly H. Shaaban In this paper, experimental investigation has been performed to characterize the heat transfer behavior of CuO–water and ZnO–water nanofluids. Nanofluids containing different volume percent (vol %) of nanoparticle...

... equations. For simulations, 12 types of nanofluids consisting magnetite (Fe 3 O 4 ), cobalt ferrite (CoFe 2 O 4 ), Mn–Zn ferrite (Mn–ZnFe 2 O 4 ), and silicon dioxide (SiO 2 ) nanoparticles along with water, engine oil, and kerosene as base fluids are used. The effects of the important model parameters...

...A. S. Chinchole; Arnab Dasgupta; P. P. Kulkarni; D. K. Chandraker; A. K. Nayak Nanofluids are suspensions of nanosized particles in any base fluid that show significant enhancement of their heat transfer properties at modest nanoparticle concentrations. Due to enhanced thermal properties at low...

...Jagannadha R. Satti; Debendra K. Das; Dustin R. Ray Density measurements were performed on several nanofluids containing nanoscale particles of aluminum oxide (Al 2 O 3 ), zinc oxide (ZnO), copper oxide (CuO), titanium oxide (TiO 2 ), and silicon dioxide (SiO 2 ). These particles were individually...

... online June 3, 2014. Assoc. Editor: Zahid Ayub. 19 12 2013 21 04 2014 In the present study, the convective heat transfer enhancement of carbon nanotube (CNT)-water nanofluid has been studied experimentally inside an automobile radiator. Heat removal rate of the coolant flowing...