Computational simulation of heat transfer enhancement by using nanofluid in a rectangular heated pipe / Houman Yarmand

Thermal characteristics of turbulent nanofluid flow in rectangular pipe are numerically investigated. The continuity, momentum and energy equations were solved by means of a finite volume method (FVM). The upper wall of channel is heated at constant heat flux while the bottom wall is symmetry, the left side is subjected to velocity inlet, and the right side of the channel is subjected to pressure outlet. Four different types of nanoparticles Al2O3, ZnO, CuO and SiO2 with different volume fractions in the range of 1% to 5% are used. In this project, effect of different Reynolds number in range of 5000 <Re