CFD Analysis Of Heat

Transfer Enhancement
using Nano Fluid

Presented by:
Ifat Rabbil Qudrat Ovi(st id:101409)
&
Syed Rafat Faysal(st id:

What is NANOFLUID?
A Base Fluid That

Contains nanometersized particles.

This particle is known
as nano particle.

Primarily used as coolant

in heat transfer
equipment such as
Heat exchangers,
Micro electronics
Radiators

Application

Chosen Nanofluid
Base Fluid(Water,H2O)
Nanoparticle(Aluminium
oxide,Al2O3)
1% volume fraction

Looks like-

Simulating Software

Ansys Fluent

Different Properties
Property Water
names
(From
chart)

Nanofluid
(From eqns to
be shown on
next slide)

Density,Kg/m3 1000

1029.5

Dynamic
viscosity,Ns/m
2

1.002*10^-3

1.027*10^-3

Thermal
Conductivity,W
/m-K

0.6

0.624

Specific
Heat,j/kg-K

4200

4068.7

Equations
Maxw
el
eqn.

Einstein
eqn.

From
Mixture
rule

Different Cross-sections

Selected cross section

Nomenclature
a=width of the section
b=height of the cross section

Main Task
To find out the size effect of

the flat cross section

We have done several
experiment by changing the
(a/b)
Rati0 increasing the hydraulic
dia.

Simulation

Meshing

Meshing:

Boundary Conditions
Constant heat flux
Two types
H1(constant along axial as
well as peripheral direction)
H2(constant only in axial
direction)

Our chosen

boundary
condition is (H1)

Boundary conditions
Reynolds
number=10
0

Boundary conditions

Result:
Q/A=h(Tw-Tb)
1
or, h=Q`/(Tw-Tb)---------------------------

Where,
h=interior fluid convective heat transfer
coefficient
Q`=wall heat flux
Tw=wall temperature
Tb=bulk temperature of fluid
.

VALIDATION

For the validation purpose

we chose rectangular cross
RATIO(a/b)
THEORITICAL
NU
EXPERIMENTAL
Nu
section .
1

3.61

3.58

4.12

4.08

4.79

4.78

5.33

5.26

6.05

5.99

Among them for ratio

(a/b)=8 ,we have done our

experiment both on water
and nano fluid and plot
Convective heat transfer
coefficient(h) vs length(l)

Result:
From our calculated h

value , we can make a plot.

h(nanofluid) vs l
( length)------------RED
h(water) vs l
( length)-----------------BLUE

Question Time

Thank You