Modeling of forced convective heat transfer of a non-Newtonian nanofluid in the horizontal tube under constant heat flux with computational fluid dynamics

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 995-999

  Moraveji, Mostafa Keshavarz ^a   Haddad, Seyyed Mohammad Hossein ^a   Darabi, Mehdi ^a  

^a ARAK UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

CFD; Convection; Developing region; Heat transfer; Nanofluid; Non Newtonian; Xanthan

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE; AXIAL LOCATIONS; CONSTANT HEAT FLUX; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; CORRELATED DATA; DEVELOPING REGIONS; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; FORCED CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL TUBES; MAXIMUM ERROR; MODELING RESULTS; NANOFLUID FLOW; NANOFLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN; NU NUMBER; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; SINGLE PHASE; XANTHAN;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MIXED CONVECTION; NANOFLUIDICS; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLUTIONS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 84863830320     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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