Design characteristics of corrugated trapezoidal plate heat exchangers using nanofluids

• Main Authors: Abed, Azher M., Alghoul, Mohamad Ahmed, Sopian, Kamaruzzaman, Mohammed, Hussein A., Majdi, Hasan Sh., Al-Shamani, Ali Najah
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/58234/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cep.2014.11.005
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

In this paper, fully developed turbulent flow and heat transfer behavior in trapezoidal channels using nanofluids are numerically studied. This study evaluates the effects of four different types of nanoparticles, Al2O3, CuO, SiO2 and ZnO, with different volume fractions (0-4%) and diameters (20-80n...