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Experimental studies on heat transfer and friction factor characteristics of CuO/water nanofluid under laminar flow in a helically dimpled tube

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An experimental investigation on the convective heat transfer and friction factor characteristics in the plain and dimpled tube under laminar flow with constant heat flux is carried out with distilled water and CuO/water nanofluids. For this, CuO nanoparticles with an average size of 15.3 nm were synthesized by sol–gel method. The nanoparticles are then dispersed in distilled water to form stable suspension of CuO/water nanofluid containing 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3% volume concentration of nanoparticles. It is found that the experimental Nusselt numbers for 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3% volume concentration of CuO nanoparticles are about 6, 9.9 and 12.6%, respectively higher than those obtained with distilled water in plain tube. However, the experimental Nusselt numbers for 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3% volume concentration of CuO nanoparticles are about 3.4, 6.8 and 12%, respectively higher than those obtained with distilled water in dimpled tube. The friction factor of CuO/water nanofluid is also increased due to the inclusion of nanoparticles and found to increase with nanoparticle volume concentration. The experimental results show that there exists a difference in the enhancement levels of Nusselt numbers obtained with nanofluids in plain tube and dimpled tube. Hence it is proposed that the mechanism of heat transfer enhancement obtained with nanofluids is due to particle migration from the core of fluid flow to tube wall.

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Abbreviations

A :

Cross sectional area of test section, m

c p :

Specific heat, J/kgK

d :

Tube diameter, m

f :

Friction factor

h :

Heat transfer coefficient, W/m2 K

I :

Current, A

k :

Thermal conductivity, W/m K

L :

Length of the test section, m

\( \dot{m} \) :

Mass flow rate, kg/s

Nu :

Nusselt number

P :

Perimeter, m

p:

Pitch, mm

Δp :

Pressure drop, Pa

Pr :

Prandtl number

q ′′ :

Actual heat flux, W/m2

Q t :

Total heat, W

Q loss :

Heat loss, W

Re :

Reynolds number

T f :

Fluid temperature, K

T w :

Wall temperature, K

v :

Velocity, m/s

V :

Voltage, V

x:

Axial distance, m

\( \phi \) :

Volume concentration

ρ :

Density, kg/m3

μ :

Viscosity, kg/ms

in :

inlet

nf :

nanofluid

out :

outlet

s :

solid phase

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Suresh, S., Chandrasekar, M. & Selvakumar, P. Experimental studies on heat transfer and friction factor characteristics of CuO/water nanofluid under laminar flow in a helically dimpled tube. Heat Mass Transfer 48, 683–694 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-011-0917-2

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