An experimental investigation of single-phase natural circulation behavior in a rectangular loop with Al2O3 nanofluids

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 184-189

  Nayak, A K ^a   Gartia, M R ^a   Vijayan, P K ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Instability; Nanofluids; Natural circulation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INSTABILITY; NANOFLUIDS; NATURAL CIRCULATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 52949126949     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Greif R. Natural circulation loops. Journal of Heat Transfer 110 (1988) 1243-1258
2. Welander P. On the oscillatory instability of a differentially heated loop. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 29 (1967) 17-30
3. T. Nishihara, Oscillatory instability of a single-phase natural circulation loop, NURETH-8, Kyoto, Japan, September 30-October 4 (1997).
4. Vijayan P.K. Experimental observations on the general trends of the steady state and stability behaviour of single-phase natural circulation loops. Nuclear Engineering and Design 215 (2002) 139-152
5. Misale M., and Frogheri M. Stabilization of a single-phase natural circulation loop by pressure drops. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 25 (2001) 277-282
6. Das S.K., Putra N., Thiesen P., and Roetzel W. Temperature dependence of thermal conductivity enhancement for nanofluids. Journal of Heat Transfer - Transactions of the ASME 125 (2003) 567-574
7. Das S.K., Putra N., and Roetzel W. Pool boiling characteristics of nano-fluids. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 46 (2003) 851-862
8. Buongiorno J. Convective transport in nanofluids. ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 128 (2006) 240-250
9. P.K. Vijayan, A.K. Nayak, D.S. Pilkhwal, D. Saha, V. Venkat Raj, Effect of loop diameter on the stability of single-phase natural circulation in rectangular loops, in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Topical Meeting on Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-5), vol. 1, Salt Lake City, USA, September 21-24, 1992, pp. 261-267.
10. Xuan Y., and Roetzel W. Conceptions for heat correlation of nanofluids. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 43 (2000) 3701-3707
11. Hamilton R.L., and Crosser O.K. Thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two component systems. I & EC Fundamentals 1 3 (1962) 187-191
12. Lee S., Choi U.S., Li S., and Eastman J.A. Measuring thermal conductivity of fluids containing oxide nanoparticles. ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 121 (1999) 280-289
13. Vijayan P.K., and Austregesilo H. Scaling laws for single-phase natural circulation loops. Nuclear Engineering and Design 152 (1994) 331-347
14. Vijayan P.K. Experimental observations on the general trends of the steady state and stability behaviour of single-phase natural circulation loop. Nuclear Engineering and Design 215 (2002) 139-152
15. Misale M., Garibaldi P., Passos J.C., and Ghisi de Bitencourt G. Experiments in a single-phase natural circulation mini-loop. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 31 8 (2007) 1111-1120
16. Murshed S.M.S., Leong K.C., and Yang C. Determination of the effective thermal diffusivity of nanofluids by the double hot-wire technique. Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics 39 (2006) 5316-5322
17. 3-water nanofluids from a plain surface in a pool. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 48 (2005) 2407-2419
18. Kim S.J., Bang I.C., Buongiorno J., and Hu L.W. Surface wettability change during pool boiling of nanofluids and its effect on critical heat flux. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 50 (2007) 4105-4116
19. Murshed S.M.S., Leong K.C., and Yang C. Investigations of thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanofluids. International Journal of Thermal Sciences 47 (2008) 560-568
20. 3-water nanofluid-hysteresis: is heat transfer enhancement using nanofluids reliable?. International Journal of Thermal Sciences 47 (2008) 103-111
21. 3 nanoparticles suspended in water. Transactions of SAREK winter annual conference (2005) 546-551
22. Wang X., Xu X., and Choi S.U.S. Thermal conductivity of nanoparticle-fluid mixtures. Journal of Thermophysics Heat Transfer 13 (1999) 474-480
23. Brinkman H.C. The viscosity of concentrated suspensions and solutions. Journal of Chemical Physics 20 (1952) 571-581
24. Xuan Y., and Li Q. Investigation on convective heat transfer and flow features of nanofluids. Transactions of ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 125 1 (2003) 151-155
25. Li Q., and Xuan Y. Convective heat transfer and flow characteristics of Cu-water nanofluids. Science in China E 45 4 (2002)
26. 2 nanoparticles (nanofluids) flowing upward through a vertical pipe. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 50 (2007) 2272-2281
27. Namburu P.K., Kulkarni D.P., Dandekar A., and Das D.K. Experimental investigation of viscosity and specific heat of silicon dioxide nanofluids. Micro & Nano Letters 2 3 (2007) 67-71
28. Khanafer K., Vafai K., and Lightstone M. Buoyancy-driven heat transfer enhancement in a two-dimensional enclosure utilizing nanofluids. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 46 (2003) 3639-3653