Investigation of Enhancement of Heat Transfer in Natural Convection Utilizing of Nanofluids

This paper analyses the heat transfer performance and fluid flow using different nanofluids in a square enclosure. The energy equation and Navier-Stokes equation are solved numerically using finite volume scheme. The effect of volume fraction concentration on the enhancement of heat transfer has been studied icorporating the Brownian motion; the influence of effective thermal conductivity on the enhancement was also investigated for a range of volume fraction concentration. The velocity profile for different Rayleigh number. Water-Cu, water AL2O3 and water-TiO2 were tested.

Authors:

• S. Etaig
• R. Hasan
• N. Perera

Keywords:

• Computational fluid Dynamics
• Natural convection
• Nanofluid and Thermal conductivity.

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