Investigation of convective heat transfer enhancement for nanofluid flow over flat plate

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, the laminar flow over flat plate of three different nanofluids is investigated. The fluid is considered as water with three different kind of solid particles Al2O3, TiO2, and Fe3O4 of different volume fractions (1, 2, 3, and 4%). The values of viscosity, heat capacity, density, and thermal conductivity depending on volume fraction for the three nanofluids are evaluated. Numerical simulation has been conducted for analysis the impact of the nanoparticles on the heat transfer properties, on the temperature and velocity profiles, on the wall shear stress and on the skin friction coefficient. The results show that as the value of volume fraction increases the values of the wall shear stress, skin friction, and heat transfer increase, but the velocity decreases. A comparison between the three nanofluids presents the difference in the thermal enhancement, velocity profiles, and thermal boundary layer. With the volume fraction for all three nanofluids polynomial connections has been obtained to describe for the relation of the wall shear stress, skin friction coefficient and average heat transfer coefficient.