Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase numerical simulation of nanofluid laminar forced convection in a microchannel

International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-116

  Kalteh, Mohammad ^a,b   Abbassi, Abbas ^a   Saffar Avval, Majid ^a   Harting, Jens ^b,c  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Laminar; Microchannel; Nanofluid; Two phase

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EQUATION; EULERIAN TWO-FLUID MODEL; EULERIAN-EULERIAN; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; LAMINAR; LAMINAR FORCED CONVECTIONS; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUID FLOW; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; NANOPARTICLE DIAMETER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RELATIVE VELOCITY; SINGLE-PHASE MODEL; TWO-PHASE; TWO-PHASE MODELING; VOLUME CONCENTRATION;

FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MICROCHANNELS; NANOPARTICLES; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 78751581812     PISSN: 0142727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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