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Numerical simulation of laminar forced convection heat transfer of Al 2 O 3 ewater nanouid in a pipe with return bend  Jongwook Choi a, * ,1 , Yuwen Zhang b a School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sunchon National University, Jeonnam 540-742, Korea b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA a r t i c l e i n f o  Article history: Received 23 April 2011 Received in revised form 27 December 2011 Accepted 30 December 2011 Available online 17 January 2012 Keywords: Correlation equation Finite element method Heat transfer enhanceme nt Nanouid Return bend a b s t r a c t Laminar forced convection heat transfer of the Al 2 O 3 ewater nanouid in a pipe with a return bend is analyzed by using a  nite element method. The results show that the average Nusselt number increases with increas ing Reyn olds number and Pran dtl number , and the increme nt of spec i c he at in th e nanouid contributes to the heat transfer enhancement. The average Nusselt number in the return bend appears higher than that in the inlet and outlet pipes due to the secondary  ows. However, the pressure drop in the pipe larg ely increases with the increment of nano parti cle volume concentr atio n. The empirical correlations for the average Nusselt numbers are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the Prandtl number.  2012 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Various industries in many countries have made great efforts to reduce the greenhouse emissions that cause global warming. To achieve this, the active endeavor to increase the energy ef ciency has been made in industrial settings. The methods to improve the ef ciency of heat exchangers can also be one of these many efforts. In this connection, many researchers have been interested in the geometry of the heat exchanger to get higher thermal ef ciency [1e3]. Meanwhi le, oth er resea rch gr oup s hav e bee n try ing to enhance the heat transfer in pipe systems by using nano uids. The concept of the nanouids started from the fact that the thermal cond ucti vity of the  uid conta ining susp ende d nanop artic les is imp ro ved more tha n tha t of the conventiona l hea t tra nsf er uid [4]. Before the nanoparticles appeared, the researches on the uid and heat transfer problems had been carried out with millimeter- or micrometer -sized particles  [ 5e7]. These particles were not put to practical use because they may have brought about poor suspen- sio n sta bili ty, cha nne l clo ggin g, system abr asi on and so on. However, the  uids inclu ding nanometer -size d parti cles do not have those serious problems and the measured thermal conduc- tivity of the nanouid is anomalously greater than the theoretical prediction [8]. The nanouid technology has been studied and developed by many research groups worldwide [9,10]. Effects of particle volume concentration, particle material, particle size, particle shape, base uid material, temperature, additive, and acidity on heat transfer enhanc ement were inv est igat ed exper imenta lly by mul tip le rese arch groups . Altho ugh the heat trans fer data were parti ally inc onc lus ive or conicti ng, the heat transf er enha ncement appeared in the range of 15e40% [11]. Straight pipes have been mainly utilized in the experimental or numer ical stud ies on the conv ecti ve heat tran sfer enhanceme nt using nanouids. Pak and Cho [12] experimentally investigated the turbulent friction and the heat transfer behaviors of the nanouids such as  gAl 2 O 3 ewater and TiO 2 ewater in a circular tube at the Reyn olds numbers of 10 4 e10 5 . The measured viscosities at the vol ume conce ntr ati on of 10% wer e appro ximately 200 times gr eater for the  gAl 2 O 3 ewat er and 3 times gr ea te r for th e TiO 2 ewater than for the pure water. Also, the Nusselt number of the nanouids increa sed with the augmentat ion of the volume concentration as well as the Reyno lds number . However , the res ults showed that the convective heat transfer coef cient of the nano- uids was smaller than that of the pure water under the condition of same average velocity. * Correspondin g author . Tel.: þ82 61 750 3826; fax: þ82 61 750 3820. E-ma il addre sses :  [email protected]  (J. Cho i),  [email protected] (Y. Zhang). 1 Presently visiting professor at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engi- neering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. Tel.:  þ1 573 268 3961; fax:þ1 573 884 5090. Contents lists available at  SciVerse ScienceDirect International Journal of Thermal Sciences journal homepage:  www.elsevier.com/locate/ijts 1290-0729/$  e see front matter   2012 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2011.12.017 International Journal of Thermal Sciences 55 (2012) 90 e102

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Numerical simulation of laminar forced convection heat transfer of Al2O3ewater

nano1047298uid in a pipe with return bend

Jongwook Choi a1 Yuwen Zhang b

a School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Sunchon National University Jeonnam 540-742 Koreab Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of Missouri Columbia MO 65211 USA

a r t i c l e i n f o

Article history

Received 23 April 2011

Received in revised form

27 December 2011

Accepted 30 December 2011

Available online 17 January 2012

Keywords

Correlation equation

Finite element method

Heat transfer enhancement

Nano1047298uid

Return bend

a b s t r a c t

Laminar forced convection heat transfer of the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in a pipe with a return bend is

analyzed by using a 1047297nite element method The results show that the average Nusselt number increases

with increasing Reynolds number and Prandtl number and the increment of speci1047297c heat in the

nano1047298uid contributes to the heat transfer enhancement The average Nusselt number in the return bend

appears higher than that in the inlet and outlet pipes due to the secondary 1047298ows However the pressure

drop in the pipe largely increases with the increment of nanoparticle volume concentration The

empirical correlations for the average Nusselt numbers are obtained as functions of the Dean number

and the Prandtl number

2012 Elsevier Masson SAS All rights reserved

1 Introduction

Various industries in many countries have made great efforts to

reduce the greenhouse emissions that cause global warming To

achieve this the active endeavor to increase the energy ef 1047297ciency

has been made in industrial settings The methods to improve the

ef 1047297ciency of heat exchangers can also be one of these many efforts

In this connection many researchers have been interested in the

geometry of the heat exchanger to get higher thermal ef 1047297ciency

[1e3] Meanwhile other research groups have been trying to

enhance the heat transfer in pipe systems by using nano1047298uids The

concept of the nano1047298uids started from the fact that the thermal

conductivity of the 1047298uid containing suspended nanoparticles is

improved more than that of the conventional heat transfer1047298uid [4]

Before the nanoparticles appeared the researches on the 1047298uid andheat transfer problems had been carried out with millimeter- or

micrometer-sized particles [5e7] These particles were not put to

practical use because they may have brought about poor suspen-

sion stability channel clogging system abrasion and so on

However the 1047298uids including nanometer-sized particles do not

have those serious problems and the measured thermal conduc-

tivity of the nano1047298uid is anomalously greater than the theoretical

prediction [8]

The nano1047298uid technology has been studied and developed by

many research groups worldwide [910] Effects of particle volume

concentration particle material particle size particle shape base

1047298uid material temperature additive and acidity on heat transfer

enhancement were investigated experimentally by multiple

research groups Although the heat transfer data were partially

inconclusive or con1047298icting the heat transfer enhancement

appeared in the range of 15e40 [11]

Straight pipes have been mainly utilized in the experimental or

numerical studies on the convective heat transfer enhancement

using nano1047298uids Pak and Cho [12] experimentally investigated theturbulent friction and the heat transfer behaviors of the nano1047298uids

such as gAl2O3ewater and TiO2ewater in a circular tube at the

Reynolds numbers of 104e105 The measured viscosities at the

volume concentration of 10 were approximately 200 times

greater for the gAl2O3ewater and 3 times greater for the

TiO2ewater than for the pure water Also the Nusselt number of

the nano1047298uids increased with the augmentation of the volume

concentration as well as the Reynolds number However the results

showed that the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient of the nano-

1047298uids was smaller than that of the pure water under the condition

of same average velocity

Corresponding author Tel thorn82 61 750 3826 fax thorn82 61 750 3820

E-mail addresses choijw99scnuackr (J Choi) zhangyumissouriedu

(Y Zhang)1 Presently visiting professor at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engi-

neering University of Missouri Columbia MO 65211 USA Tel thorn1 573 268 3961

faxthorn1 573 884 5090

Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e w w w e l s e v i e r c om l o c a t e i j t s

1290-0729$ e see front matter 2012 Elsevier Masson SAS All rights reserved

doi101016jijthermalsci201112017

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Xuan and Li [13] measured the convective heat transfer coef 1047297-

cient and the friction factor of the Cuewater nano1047298uid in the

turbulent 1047298ow with the Reynolds numbers of 10000e25000 The

nano1047298uid had the larger convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient than

the base 1047298uid at the same Reynolds number However the friction

factor of the nano1047298uid was almost same as that of the pure water

because of the lowvolume fractionsof 03e20 Wen and Ding [14]

reported an experimental work on the convective heat transfer of

the gAl2O3ewater nano1047298uid 1047298owing through a copper tube in the

laminar 1047298ow regime with the Reynolds numbers of 500e2100 The

nanoparticles enhanced the convective heat transfer with the

increment of the Reynolds number and the particle volume

concentration They also concluded that the enhancement of the

convective heat transfer could not be solely attributed to the

improvement of the effective thermal conductivity

Maiumlga et al [15] numerically studied the turbulent 1047298ow of

gAl2O3ewater and gAl2O3eethylene glycol nano1047298uids inside the

single uniformly heated tube at the Reynolds numbers of 10000

and 50000 It showed that the gAl2O3eethylene glycol nano1047298uid

offered a better heat transfer enhancement than the gAl2O3ewater

nano1047298uid However the wall shear stress in the gAl2O3eethylene

glycol was higher than that in the gAl2O3ewater Also Maiumlga

et al [16] continued to perform the numerical simulations for thelaminar 1047298ow with the gAl2O3ewater nano1047298uid at the Reynolds

numbers of 250 500 and 1000 and with the gAl2O3eethylene

glycol at the Reynolds numbers of 631 631 and 631 respec-

tively The tendencies of the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient

and the wall shear stress were similar to the previous results

Ding et al [17] experimentally studied the heat transfer

behavior of the CNT(carbon nanotubes)-water nano1047298uid 1047298owing

through a horizontal tube at the Reynolds numbers of 800e1200

Over 350 of the maximum heat transfer enhancement was ob-

tained in the weight concentration of 05 at the Reynolds number

of 800 It was proposed that the observed large enhancement

could be caused by the particle re-arrangement reduction of

thermal boundary layer thickness very high aspect ratio of CNT as

well as the thermal conductivity Chun et al [18] gained theconvective heat transfer coef 1047297cient of nano1047298uids made of several

alumina nanoparticles and transformer oil at the Reynolds

numbers of 100e450 One of the possible reasons for the heat

transfer enhancement was explained to be the high concentration

of the nanoparticles in the thermal boundary layer He et al [19]

carried out an experimental and numerical study on the 1047298ow

and heat transfer behaviors of the TNT(titanate nanotubes)-water

nano1047298uid at the Reynolds number of 1700 and the CNT-water

nano1047298uid at the Reynolds number of 800 The convective heat

transfer of the nano1047298uids was simulated in a single-phase 1047298ow

mode with considering the nano1047298uids as both Newtonian and

non-Newtonian 1047298uids It was suggested that the non-Newtonian

characteristics of the nano1047298uids in1047298uence on the overall heat

transfer enhancementSommers and Yerkes [20] studied the convective heat transfer

and the system-level effect of the Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid at the

Reynolds numbers of 500e3000 The change of viscosity was found

to be nonlinear and increased sharply with particles loading The

heat transfer performance data were generally commensurate with

the baseline data However it concluded that the use of the

Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid for the heat transfer enhancement was

dif 1047297cult to be justi1047297ed because the nano-abrasion may have been

occurred in the loop if the nano1047298uid was used for a long period of

time Alammar and Hu [21] performed the numerical analysis to

examine the laminar 1047298ow and the heat transfer characteristics of

eight single-phase nano1047298uids It was found that the oxide-based

nano1047298uids offered the least heat transfer enhancement when

compared with the elements-based nano1047298

uids

As mentioned above the heat transfer characteristics of nano-

1047298uids have been investigated mainly in a straight pipe with rela-

tively high Reynolds numbers However most of heat exchange

systems consist of straight pipes and return bends Therefore it is

necessary to study the heat transfer enhancement in the pipes

including the return bend In this context there have been limited

works relevant to only a single curved tube with nano1047298uids

Akbarinia and Behzadmehr [22] investigated the effects of buoy-

ancy force centrifugal force and nanoparticle volume concentra-

tion on Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid 1047298ows in a horizontal curved tube

only at the Reynolds numbers of 300 600 and 900 and the Grashof

numbers of 8000 300000 and 640000 The buoyancy force was

mainly focused in this investigation with regard to the centrifugal

force The results showed that the buoyancy force had a negative

effect on the Nusselt number Akbarinia [23] continued to analyze

the nano1047298uid 1047298ow and the heat transfer behavior along the curved

pipe at the Grashof numbers of 1000e146600 Akbarinia and Laur

[24] reported the results of the laminar mixed convective heat

transfer in a circular curved tube by using the two phase mixture

model and the control volumetechnique at the Reynolds numberof

648 and the Grashof number of 5740

The objective of the present study is to analyze the hydrody-

namic and thermal characteristics of the Al2O3e

water nano1047298uid inthe pipes including a return bend with relatively low Reynolds

numbers which are similar to the pipe shape in a heat exchanger

system The reasonwhy the numerical investigation is conducted at

relatively low Reynolds is that the effects of the heat transfer in the

return bend advance more noticeably in this range than those in the

inlet pipe and the outlet pipe The FEM (1047297nite element method) has

been used in solving the governing equations for the 1047298uid and

thermal 1047298ows To 1047297gure out the heat transfer behaviors of the

nano1047298uid the average Nusselt numbers will be calculated with the

nanoparticle volume concentrations of 00 25 50 75 and 100

and the Reynolds numbers of 10 25 50 75 and 100 The velocity

and temperature distributions will be obtained to understand the

role of the return bend and the pressure drop will be considered to

realize the effect of the nano1047298uid viscosity In addition the corre-lations which can be applied to the heat transfer analysis of the heat

exchanger system will be provided in the inlet pipe the return

bend and the outlet pipe respectively

2 Numerical analysis

21 Governing equations

The nano1047298uid consists of Al2O3 and water and the nanoparticles

(Al2O3) are assumed to be well dispersed within the base 1047298uid

(water) Furthermore the nano1047298uid can be regarded and analyzed

as a single-phase 1047298uid because the nanoparticles are ultra1047297ne and

they can be 1047298uidized easily [25] Also the motions of the nano-

particles can be neglected and the thermal equilibrium state can beassumed to be predominant [1622] Therefore the following

general conservation equations can be used to compute the 1047298ow

and thermal 1047297elds with the effective physical properties of the

nano1047298uid

vuk

v xkfrac14 0 (1)

vu j

vt thorn uk

vu j

v xkfrac14

v p

v x jthorn

1

Re

v2u j

v x2i

(2)

vT

vt thorn uk

vT

v xkfrac14

1

Pe

v2T

v x2 j

(3)

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The dimensionless conservation equations are presented in

equations (1)e(3) which are continuity momentum and energy

equations respectively These equations written in the Cartesian

tensor form are for the 3-dimensional incompressible laminar 1047298ow

The viscous dissipation and the gravity terms are not considered

because these terms make little effects on the heat transfer analysis

in the pipe at relatively low Reynolds number

22 Finite element method

The FEM to solve the governing equations can be classi1047297ed into

the mixed interpolation methods the penalty methods and the

segregated velocityepressure solution methods [26] The segre-

gated scheme adopted in the present study requires much less

execution time and storage than the other two methods particu-

larly for the three-dimensional con1047297gurations Also the pressure is

computed only once in the stage of the pressure correction without

iterative calculations

Unlike the basic FVM (Finite Volume Method) the FEM can be

easily applied to the arbitrary shapes with multi-blocks because it

includes the concepts of the coordinate transformation for each

element in the local coordinate system On the other hand the FEMcode used in the present study has a limitation that the stability

requirement is needed due to the explicit scheme Therefore the

time step should be decided taking the Courant number and the

diffusion number into consideration

The numerical algorithm by FEM is shown in Fig 1 The velocity

and the pressure are obtained from the continuity and momentum

equations through the four stages of the solution procedures The

segregated approaches consist of convective approximation

viscous prediction pressure correction and velocity correction

[27e29] The temperature is acquired from the energy equation

through the two stages the convective approximation and the

diffusive prediction [30] When the temperature is calculated the

velocity is also required in the energy equation

221 Continuity and momentum equations

In the stage of the convective approximation the 1047297rst term and

the second convective term on the left-hand side are considered in

the momentum equation (2) After the Taylor series expansion the

Galerkin method and the Greenrsquos theorem are applied to these

terms the discretized equation comes out as shown in equation (4)

Here the 1047297rst term on the left-hand side is approximated by

a diagonal form and the integrations are calculated by the Gaussian

quadrature

Z U

N juc j dU frac14Z U

N juo j dU Dt Z U

N juo j

vuo j

v xkdU

thornethDt THORN2

2

Z G

N juoi u

ok

vuo j

v xinkdG (4)

In the stage of the viscous prediction the 1047297rst term on the left-

hand side and the second viscous term on the right-hand side are

used in the momentum equation (2) The discretized equation is

obtained by using the Galerkin method and the Green rsquos theorem

expressed in equation (5)

Z U

N juv

j dU frac14

Z U

N juc

j dU Dt

Re

Z U

vN jv xi

vuo j

v xidU thorn

Dt

Re

Z G

N jvuo

j

v xinidG (5)

In the stage of the pressurecorrection the continuity equation is

employed to compute the pressure values At 1047297rst only the two

terms which are composed of the 1047297rst term on the left-hand side

and the 1047297rst pressure term on the right-hand side in the

momentum equation (2) are considered When the gradient of the

two terms is taken and then the continuity equation is substituted

to this equation the pressure equation is obtained The Galerkin

method and the Greenrsquos theorem are also applied to the pressure

equation The discretized equation is

Z U

vN jv x j

v pn

v x jdU frac14

1

Dt

Z U

N jvuv

j

v x jdU thorn

Z G

N jv pn

v x jn jdG (6)

On the other hand the velocity values computed in the viscousprediction stage do not generally satisfy the continuity equation

Therefore the two terms of the momentum equation used in the

pressure correction stage are again taken into account in the stage

Fig 1 Flowchart of numerical algorithm

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of the velocity correction When the Galerkin method is applied to

this equation the discretized equation is obtained asZ U

N jun

j dU frac14

Z U

N juv

j dU Dt

Z U

N jv pn

v x jdU (7)

222 Energy equation

In the stage of the convective approximation the two terms of the energy equation (3) the 1047297rst term and second convective term

on the left-hand side are used to calculate the temperature The

discretized equation obtained by the Taylor series expansion the

Galerkin method and the Greenrsquos theorem isZ U

NT c dU frac14

Z U

NT odU Dt

Z U

Nunk

vT o

v xkdU

thornethDt THORN2

2

Z G

Nuni u

nk

vT o

v xinkdG (8)

In the stage of the diffusive prediction the 1047297rst term on the left-

hand side and the thermal diffusive term on the right-hand side of

the energy equation (3) are considered to calculate the 1047297

naltemperature values When the Taylor series expansion the Galerkin

method and the Greenrsquos theorem are also applied to this equation

the discretized equation is obtained asZ U

NT ndU frac14

Z U

NT c dU Dt

Pe

Z U

vN

v x j

vT o

v x jdU thorn

Dt

Pe

Z G

N vT o

v x jn jdG (9)

23 Validation of FEM code

Before the above 1047297nite element method is applied to the

hydrodynamic and thermal analyses in the pipes including a return

bend the numerical analysis is carried out for a straight pipe in

order to validate the FEM code because it has analytic solutions [31]

at steady state Furthermore at unsteady state the results by the

FEM code are compared with those by the CFX commercial soft-

ware [32] based on FVM Another reason why the straight pipe in

the validation is employed is that the straight pipe and the pipe

with the return bend have the same con1047297guration and boundary

conditions in the computational space Fig 2 (a) and (b) show the

geometric shapes of the straight pipe and the pipe with the return

bend respectively These geometric shapes are different in the

physical space However they have the same shape which is ob-

tained by conducting the coordinate transformations in order to

solve the governing equations in the computational space as

shown in Fig 2 (c) In addition the same types of boundary

conditions are used for the two geometric shapes In other words

these calculations are carried out with the same con1047297guration and

boundary conditions in the computational space Only the Jacobian

of transformation is different which is interpreted as the ratio of

the volumes in the physical space to that in the computational

space Therefore the validations by the FEM code in the straight

pipe are still available for the pipe with the return bend

231 Calculation conditions

The straight pipe which has the dimensionless diameter of 1and the dimensionless length of 10 is considered in the numerical

analysis The grids of the straight pipe consist of the nodal points of

5226 and the elements of 4875 for the FEM and the nodal points of

292800 and the elements of 301701 for the CFX respectively The

1047297ne meshes are used in the CFX for more accurate comparison

which are approximately 60 times as much element as in the FEM

The boundary conditions for the straight pipe are represented in

Table 1 The dimensionless velocity in the axial direction (w) and

the dimensionless temperature (T ) are set up to 1 and 0 each at the

inlet and the dimensionless pressure ( p) is given 0 at the outlet

The dimensionless velocities (u v w) of 0 and the uniform heat 1047298ux

(qw) of 05 (Wm2) are granted at the wall boundary The numerical

Fig 2 Geometric shapes in physical and computational spaces

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The effective physical properties of the nano1047298uid are obtained as

functions of nanoparticle volume concentration (f) [22]

reff frac14 eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs (12)

meff frac14

123f2 thorn 73f thorn 1m f (13)

C p

eff frac14

eth1 fTHORN

rc p

f thorn f

rc p

s

eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs

(14)

keff frac14

0Bks thorn ethn 1THORNk f ethn 1THORNf

k f ks

ks thorn ethn 1THORNk f thorn f

k f ks

1CAk f (15)

The equation (13) of the effective viscosity was obtained by

performing a least-square curve 1047297tting of experimental data

available for the mixtures and presentedin the literature [15] Also

the equation (15) of the effective thermal conductivity was intro-

duced by Hamilton and Crosser [34] and was shown to be appro-

priate for the nano1047298uids in the literature [35] Here the

concentration of 0 means the pure water in which the nano-

particles are not included within The values of effective properties

used in this work are tabulated in Table 4

32 Results and discussions

The numerical analysis for the hydrodynamic and thermal 1047298ows

of nano1047298uid in the pipes with the return bend has been performed

with different concentrations and Reynolds numbers In total the

25 cases have been simulated in the conditions of the concentra-tions of 00 25 50 75 and 100 and the Reynolds numbers

of 10 25 50 75 and 100 respectively Forbetter understanding the

thermal and 1047298uid 1047298ows in the return bend the dimensionless

velocity and temperature distributions at the concentration of 0

are shown in Fig 7 and Fig 8 when the Reynolds numbers are 10

and 100 respectively The velocity pro1047297les at the Reynolds number

of 10 keep nearly parabolic shapes in the entire pipes However at

the Reynolds number of 100 the dimensionless velocity in the

outer region of the return bend appears higher than that in the

inner region This 1047298ow can affect the heat transfer characteristics in

the return bend and in the outlet pipe Also the heat transfer is

expected to be improved between the inside and the outside of the

pipe because the cold 1047298ow in the core of the inlet pipe shifts to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Fig 8The dimensionless velocity pro1047297les for the minus x-direction at

the cross section (AeA) are represented in Fig 9 The position of the

maximum velocity is moved towards the outer region of the return

bend as the Reynolds number increases The dimensionless

temperature at the wall of the return bend is higher than that at the

center as shown in Fig 10 because the heat 1047298ux is uniformly

supplied at the wall boundary However as the Reynolds number

increases the dimensionless temperature declines gradually in the

outer region of the return bend due to the cold 1047298ow from the inlet

pipe

The secondary 1047298ow occurs only in the return bend because of

the centrifugal force which acts in the vertical direction of the main

1047298ow as shown in Fig 11 In other words the two rotating 1047298ows at

the top and the bottomof the return bend occur due tothe different

centrifugal forces between in the inner region and in the outer

regions of the return bend Therefore the secondary 1047298ow can be

de1047297ned as the rotating 1047298ow in the circumferential direction It can

be seen in detail that the cold 1047298ow moves to the outer region with

the increase of the Reynolds number The dimensionless temper-

ature distribution at the Reynolds number of 10 is different from

Fig 5 Schematic representation for cross section of pipes with return bend

Fig 6 Boundary conditions for pipes with return bend

Table 3

Physical properties of water and Al2O3

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c heat

(JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Shape

factor (n)

Water 9980 10020E-03 41820 05984 e

Al2O3 39600 e 7530 460 3

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the distributions at the other Reynolds numbers More heat is

supplied into the outer region because the curved length in the

outer region is relatively longer than the length in the inner region

Thus the dimensionless temperature in the outer region at the

Reynolds number of 10 appears higher than that in the inner

region However at the otherReynolds numbers the dimensionless

temperature in the outer region is lower than that in the inner

region because the intensity of the secondary 1047298ow increased

gradually The velocity ratios of the secondary1047298owto the main1047298ow

rise with the increase of the Reynolds number as represented inFig 12

To investigate the role of the return bend the entire pipes are

divided into three parts the inlet pipe the return bend and the

outlet pipe The average Nusselt numbers at the concentration of 0

are obtained with the increase of the Reynolds number as shown in

Fig 13 Although the slopes appear different the average Nusselt

numbers rise in all parts because the inlet velocity increases with

increasing Reynolds number At the Reynolds numbers of 10 and

25 the average Nusselt numbers of the inlet pipe are relatively

higher than those of the return bend and the outlet pipe However

at the Reynolds numbers of 50 75 and 100 the average Nusselt

numbers of the return bend are larger than those of the inlet and

outlet pipes because the cold 1047298ow in the inlet pipe moves to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Figs 7 and 8 In otherwords the heat transfer in the return bend improves with the

increase of the Reynolds number due to the secondary 1047298ow On the

other hand the pressure drops are compared in each of three parts

as shown in Fig14 The pressure drops in the return bend are lower

than those in the inlet and outlet pipes because the pressure drop

depends mainly on the pipe length Here the length ratio of the

return bend to the straight pipe is about 047 The effect of the

secondary1047298ow is relatively small on the pressure loss The pressure

drops in the inlet pipe are higher than those in the outlet pipe It is

because the back pressure at the end of the inlet pipe is larger than

that at the end of the outlet pipe due to the return bend As a result

the return bend plays a major role in enhancing the heat transfer

without the large pressure loss

Fig15 shows the average Nusselt numbers at different Reynolds

numbers of 10 25 50 75 and 100 and concentrations of 00 25

50 75 and 100 respectively The average Nusselt numbers

increase with the rise of the Reynolds number and the concentra-

tion In general the heat transfer of the nano1047298uid is improved with

the augmentation of the concentration because the thermal

conductivity of the nano1047298uid grows with the concentration as

shown in Table 4 In addition the increment of the concentration is

accompanied by the rise of the inlet velocity at the same Reynolds

number as expressed in Table 5 Therefore these conditions cause

the increase of the average Nusselt number It is noted that the

results at the concentrations of 75 and 100 might not be correct

in reality because the stable nano1047298uid could not be found for suchhigh volume concentrations

For the entire pipes the increasing rates of the average Nusselt

number with the effect of the Reynolds number and the concen-

tration are illustrated in Fig16 These increments mean the ratios of

the average Nusselt numbers at the nano1047298uids to the average

Nusselt number at the pure water of the concentration of 00 Of

course the average Nusselt numbers continue to increase at the

entire pipes with increasing Reynolds number as shown in Fig 13

Also at the inlet pipe the increasing rates continue to be on the rise

with increasing Reynolds number as represented in Fig 17

However the slope of the average Nusselt numbers between the

Reynolds numbers of 25 and 50 is steeper than the slopes at the

other Reynolds numbers as shown in Fig 13 because the average

Nusselt number increases noticeably in the return bend at theReynolds number of 50 Although the average Nusselt numbers

have high values in the return bend at the Reynolds numbers of 75

and 100 they have relatively low values in the inlet and outlet

Table 4

Variations of effective physical properties with concentration

Concentration

()

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c

heat (JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Increasing

rates of

conductivity

()

00 9980 10020E-03 41820 059840 1000

25 10721 12619E-03 38653 064264 1074

50 11461 16758E-03 35896 068911 115275 12202 22439E-03 33473 073799 1233

100 12942 29659E-03 31328 078947 1319

Fig 7 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14

10

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pipes Therefore the increasing rate of the average Nusselt number

at the Reynolds of 50 is higher than the increasing rates at the other

Reynolds numbers Those rates decrease gradually at the Reynolds

numbers of 75 and 100 As a result it is noted that the increasing

rate of the average Nusselt number is affected by the return bend

On the other hand the highest increment approximately 112

appears at the Reynolds number of 50 and the concentration of

100 However this value does not reach up to the increasing rate

1152 for the thermal conductivity of the nano1047298uid as represented

in Table 4

The pressure drop between inlet and outlet of the pipe is

depicted in Fig 18 Here the dimensional pressure is used becausethe dimensionless pressure has the same value at the same Rey-

nolds number The pressure drop increases dramatically with the

increment of the Reynolds number The increasing rate of the

pressure drop at the concentration of 100 with respect to the

concentration of 00 appears nearly 6 times higher at all the

Reynolds numbers This value is considerably high in comparison

with the increasing rate of the heat transfer Consequently the high

pressure drop for the nano1047298uid should be given careful consider-

ation in designing heat exchangers although the nano1047298uid does not

have the characteristics such as poor suspension stability channel

clogging system abrasion and so on

In order to exclude the in1047298uence of the increasing inlet velocity

caused by the concentration the numerical analysis has been

conducted at the same volumetric 1047298ow rate in the pipe That is the

average Nusselt numbers are obtained in the condition of the samedimensionless inlet velocity at the concentrations of 00 and 100

as expressed in Fig 19 The results show that the average Nusselt

numbers at the concentration of 00 are higher than those at the

d

- u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

02

04

06

08

10

12

14

16

18

20

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 9 Dimensionless velocity pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

d

T

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 10 Dimensionless temperature pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

Fig 8 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14 100

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concentration of 100 This means that the increment of the inlet

velocity can improve the heat transfer in the pipe without using the

nano1047298uids Meanwhile the speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid decreases

with the increase of the concentration as shown in Table 4 For the

purpose of investigating the effect of the speci1047297c heat the addi-

tional numerical calculation is carried out with the increasing

speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid To achieve this the speci1047297c heat

31328 (JkgK) of the nano1047298uid at the concentration of 100 is

increased up to 41820 (JkgK) which is the value of the speci1047297c

heat at the concentration of 00 The results show that the average

Nusselt numbers increase with the speci1047297c heat as represented

with the symbol gt in Fig 19 It means that the speci1047297c heat can

play an important role in the heat transfer enhancement of the

nano1047298uid The pressure drop with respect to the dimensionless

inlet velocity is illustrated in Fig 20 The pressure drop at the

concentration of 100 is larger than that at the concentration of

00 because of the kinematic viscosity of the nano1047298uid

In the meantime the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient is

generally required when the temperature distribution is calculated

to design heat exchangers If the average Nusselt number is offered

Fig 11 Distributions of secondary 1047298ow and dimensionless temperature at cross section (AeA) of return bend

Re

V e l o c i t y r a t i o

s

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

010

012

014

016

018

020

022

024

026

Fig 12 Velocity ratios of secondary 1047298

ow to main 1047298

ow in return bend

Re

N u

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

Inlet pipe

Return bend

Outlet pipe

Entire pipes

Fig 13 Comparisons of average Nusselt numbers in various parts

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Nut frac14 18330 De02675 Pr 01900 ethentire pipesTHORN (19)

Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

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Xuan and Li [13] measured the convective heat transfer coef 1047297-

cient and the friction factor of the Cuewater nano1047298uid in the

turbulent 1047298ow with the Reynolds numbers of 10000e25000 The

nano1047298uid had the larger convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient than

the base 1047298uid at the same Reynolds number However the friction

factor of the nano1047298uid was almost same as that of the pure water

because of the lowvolume fractionsof 03e20 Wen and Ding [14]

reported an experimental work on the convective heat transfer of

the gAl2O3ewater nano1047298uid 1047298owing through a copper tube in the

laminar 1047298ow regime with the Reynolds numbers of 500e2100 The

nanoparticles enhanced the convective heat transfer with the

increment of the Reynolds number and the particle volume

concentration They also concluded that the enhancement of the

convective heat transfer could not be solely attributed to the

improvement of the effective thermal conductivity

Maiumlga et al [15] numerically studied the turbulent 1047298ow of

gAl2O3ewater and gAl2O3eethylene glycol nano1047298uids inside the

single uniformly heated tube at the Reynolds numbers of 10000

and 50000 It showed that the gAl2O3eethylene glycol nano1047298uid

offered a better heat transfer enhancement than the gAl2O3ewater

nano1047298uid However the wall shear stress in the gAl2O3eethylene

glycol was higher than that in the gAl2O3ewater Also Maiumlga

et al [16] continued to perform the numerical simulations for thelaminar 1047298ow with the gAl2O3ewater nano1047298uid at the Reynolds

numbers of 250 500 and 1000 and with the gAl2O3eethylene

glycol at the Reynolds numbers of 631 631 and 631 respec-

tively The tendencies of the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient

and the wall shear stress were similar to the previous results

Ding et al [17] experimentally studied the heat transfer

behavior of the CNT(carbon nanotubes)-water nano1047298uid 1047298owing

through a horizontal tube at the Reynolds numbers of 800e1200

Over 350 of the maximum heat transfer enhancement was ob-

tained in the weight concentration of 05 at the Reynolds number

of 800 It was proposed that the observed large enhancement

could be caused by the particle re-arrangement reduction of

thermal boundary layer thickness very high aspect ratio of CNT as

well as the thermal conductivity Chun et al [18] gained theconvective heat transfer coef 1047297cient of nano1047298uids made of several

alumina nanoparticles and transformer oil at the Reynolds

numbers of 100e450 One of the possible reasons for the heat

transfer enhancement was explained to be the high concentration

of the nanoparticles in the thermal boundary layer He et al [19]

carried out an experimental and numerical study on the 1047298ow

and heat transfer behaviors of the TNT(titanate nanotubes)-water

nano1047298uid at the Reynolds number of 1700 and the CNT-water

nano1047298uid at the Reynolds number of 800 The convective heat

transfer of the nano1047298uids was simulated in a single-phase 1047298ow

mode with considering the nano1047298uids as both Newtonian and

non-Newtonian 1047298uids It was suggested that the non-Newtonian

characteristics of the nano1047298uids in1047298uence on the overall heat

transfer enhancementSommers and Yerkes [20] studied the convective heat transfer

and the system-level effect of the Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid at the

Reynolds numbers of 500e3000 The change of viscosity was found

to be nonlinear and increased sharply with particles loading The

heat transfer performance data were generally commensurate with

the baseline data However it concluded that the use of the

Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid for the heat transfer enhancement was

dif 1047297cult to be justi1047297ed because the nano-abrasion may have been

occurred in the loop if the nano1047298uid was used for a long period of

time Alammar and Hu [21] performed the numerical analysis to

examine the laminar 1047298ow and the heat transfer characteristics of

eight single-phase nano1047298uids It was found that the oxide-based

nano1047298uids offered the least heat transfer enhancement when

compared with the elements-based nano1047298

uids

As mentioned above the heat transfer characteristics of nano-

1047298uids have been investigated mainly in a straight pipe with rela-

tively high Reynolds numbers However most of heat exchange

systems consist of straight pipes and return bends Therefore it is

necessary to study the heat transfer enhancement in the pipes

including the return bend In this context there have been limited

works relevant to only a single curved tube with nano1047298uids

Akbarinia and Behzadmehr [22] investigated the effects of buoy-

ancy force centrifugal force and nanoparticle volume concentra-

tion on Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid 1047298ows in a horizontal curved tube

only at the Reynolds numbers of 300 600 and 900 and the Grashof

numbers of 8000 300000 and 640000 The buoyancy force was

mainly focused in this investigation with regard to the centrifugal

force The results showed that the buoyancy force had a negative

effect on the Nusselt number Akbarinia [23] continued to analyze

the nano1047298uid 1047298ow and the heat transfer behavior along the curved

pipe at the Grashof numbers of 1000e146600 Akbarinia and Laur

[24] reported the results of the laminar mixed convective heat

transfer in a circular curved tube by using the two phase mixture

model and the control volumetechnique at the Reynolds numberof

648 and the Grashof number of 5740

The objective of the present study is to analyze the hydrody-

namic and thermal characteristics of the Al2O3e

water nano1047298uid inthe pipes including a return bend with relatively low Reynolds

numbers which are similar to the pipe shape in a heat exchanger

system The reasonwhy the numerical investigation is conducted at

relatively low Reynolds is that the effects of the heat transfer in the

return bend advance more noticeably in this range than those in the

inlet pipe and the outlet pipe The FEM (1047297nite element method) has

been used in solving the governing equations for the 1047298uid and

thermal 1047298ows To 1047297gure out the heat transfer behaviors of the

nano1047298uid the average Nusselt numbers will be calculated with the

nanoparticle volume concentrations of 00 25 50 75 and 100

and the Reynolds numbers of 10 25 50 75 and 100 The velocity

and temperature distributions will be obtained to understand the

role of the return bend and the pressure drop will be considered to

realize the effect of the nano1047298uid viscosity In addition the corre-lations which can be applied to the heat transfer analysis of the heat

exchanger system will be provided in the inlet pipe the return

bend and the outlet pipe respectively

2 Numerical analysis

21 Governing equations

The nano1047298uid consists of Al2O3 and water and the nanoparticles

(Al2O3) are assumed to be well dispersed within the base 1047298uid

(water) Furthermore the nano1047298uid can be regarded and analyzed

as a single-phase 1047298uid because the nanoparticles are ultra1047297ne and

they can be 1047298uidized easily [25] Also the motions of the nano-

particles can be neglected and the thermal equilibrium state can beassumed to be predominant [1622] Therefore the following

general conservation equations can be used to compute the 1047298ow

and thermal 1047297elds with the effective physical properties of the

nano1047298uid

vuk

v xkfrac14 0 (1)

vu j

vt thorn uk

vu j

v xkfrac14

v p

v x jthorn

1

Re

v2u j

v x2i

(2)

vT

vt thorn uk

vT

v xkfrac14

1

Pe

v2T

v x2 j

(3)

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The dimensionless conservation equations are presented in

equations (1)e(3) which are continuity momentum and energy

equations respectively These equations written in the Cartesian

tensor form are for the 3-dimensional incompressible laminar 1047298ow

The viscous dissipation and the gravity terms are not considered

because these terms make little effects on the heat transfer analysis

in the pipe at relatively low Reynolds number

22 Finite element method

The FEM to solve the governing equations can be classi1047297ed into

the mixed interpolation methods the penalty methods and the

segregated velocityepressure solution methods [26] The segre-

gated scheme adopted in the present study requires much less

execution time and storage than the other two methods particu-

larly for the three-dimensional con1047297gurations Also the pressure is

computed only once in the stage of the pressure correction without

iterative calculations

Unlike the basic FVM (Finite Volume Method) the FEM can be

easily applied to the arbitrary shapes with multi-blocks because it

includes the concepts of the coordinate transformation for each

element in the local coordinate system On the other hand the FEMcode used in the present study has a limitation that the stability

requirement is needed due to the explicit scheme Therefore the

time step should be decided taking the Courant number and the

diffusion number into consideration

The numerical algorithm by FEM is shown in Fig 1 The velocity

and the pressure are obtained from the continuity and momentum

equations through the four stages of the solution procedures The

segregated approaches consist of convective approximation

viscous prediction pressure correction and velocity correction

[27e29] The temperature is acquired from the energy equation

through the two stages the convective approximation and the

diffusive prediction [30] When the temperature is calculated the

velocity is also required in the energy equation

221 Continuity and momentum equations

In the stage of the convective approximation the 1047297rst term and

the second convective term on the left-hand side are considered in

the momentum equation (2) After the Taylor series expansion the

Galerkin method and the Greenrsquos theorem are applied to these

terms the discretized equation comes out as shown in equation (4)

Here the 1047297rst term on the left-hand side is approximated by

a diagonal form and the integrations are calculated by the Gaussian

quadrature

Z U

N juc j dU frac14Z U

N juo j dU Dt Z U

N juo j

vuo j

v xkdU

thornethDt THORN2

2

Z G

N juoi u

ok

vuo j

v xinkdG (4)

In the stage of the viscous prediction the 1047297rst term on the left-

hand side and the second viscous term on the right-hand side are

used in the momentum equation (2) The discretized equation is

obtained by using the Galerkin method and the Green rsquos theorem

expressed in equation (5)

Z U

N juv

j dU frac14

Z U

N juc

j dU Dt

Re

Z U

vN jv xi

vuo j

v xidU thorn

Dt

Re

Z G

N jvuo

j

v xinidG (5)

In the stage of the pressurecorrection the continuity equation is

employed to compute the pressure values At 1047297rst only the two

terms which are composed of the 1047297rst term on the left-hand side

and the 1047297rst pressure term on the right-hand side in the

momentum equation (2) are considered When the gradient of the

two terms is taken and then the continuity equation is substituted

to this equation the pressure equation is obtained The Galerkin

method and the Greenrsquos theorem are also applied to the pressure

equation The discretized equation is

Z U

vN jv x j

v pn

v x jdU frac14

1

Dt

Z U

N jvuv

j

v x jdU thorn

Z G

N jv pn

v x jn jdG (6)

On the other hand the velocity values computed in the viscousprediction stage do not generally satisfy the continuity equation

Therefore the two terms of the momentum equation used in the

pressure correction stage are again taken into account in the stage

Fig 1 Flowchart of numerical algorithm

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of the velocity correction When the Galerkin method is applied to

this equation the discretized equation is obtained asZ U

N jun

j dU frac14

Z U

N juv

j dU Dt

Z U

N jv pn

v x jdU (7)

222 Energy equation

In the stage of the convective approximation the two terms of the energy equation (3) the 1047297rst term and second convective term

on the left-hand side are used to calculate the temperature The

discretized equation obtained by the Taylor series expansion the

Galerkin method and the Greenrsquos theorem isZ U

NT c dU frac14

Z U

NT odU Dt

Z U

Nunk

vT o

v xkdU

thornethDt THORN2

2

Z G

Nuni u

nk

vT o

v xinkdG (8)

In the stage of the diffusive prediction the 1047297rst term on the left-

hand side and the thermal diffusive term on the right-hand side of

the energy equation (3) are considered to calculate the 1047297

naltemperature values When the Taylor series expansion the Galerkin

method and the Greenrsquos theorem are also applied to this equation

the discretized equation is obtained asZ U

NT ndU frac14

Z U

NT c dU Dt

Pe

Z U

vN

v x j

vT o

v x jdU thorn

Dt

Pe

Z G

N vT o

v x jn jdG (9)

23 Validation of FEM code

Before the above 1047297nite element method is applied to the

hydrodynamic and thermal analyses in the pipes including a return

bend the numerical analysis is carried out for a straight pipe in

order to validate the FEM code because it has analytic solutions [31]

at steady state Furthermore at unsteady state the results by the

FEM code are compared with those by the CFX commercial soft-

ware [32] based on FVM Another reason why the straight pipe in

the validation is employed is that the straight pipe and the pipe

with the return bend have the same con1047297guration and boundary

conditions in the computational space Fig 2 (a) and (b) show the

geometric shapes of the straight pipe and the pipe with the return

bend respectively These geometric shapes are different in the

physical space However they have the same shape which is ob-

tained by conducting the coordinate transformations in order to

solve the governing equations in the computational space as

shown in Fig 2 (c) In addition the same types of boundary

conditions are used for the two geometric shapes In other words

these calculations are carried out with the same con1047297guration and

boundary conditions in the computational space Only the Jacobian

of transformation is different which is interpreted as the ratio of

the volumes in the physical space to that in the computational

space Therefore the validations by the FEM code in the straight

pipe are still available for the pipe with the return bend

231 Calculation conditions

The straight pipe which has the dimensionless diameter of 1and the dimensionless length of 10 is considered in the numerical

analysis The grids of the straight pipe consist of the nodal points of

5226 and the elements of 4875 for the FEM and the nodal points of

292800 and the elements of 301701 for the CFX respectively The

1047297ne meshes are used in the CFX for more accurate comparison

which are approximately 60 times as much element as in the FEM

The boundary conditions for the straight pipe are represented in

Table 1 The dimensionless velocity in the axial direction (w) and

the dimensionless temperature (T ) are set up to 1 and 0 each at the

inlet and the dimensionless pressure ( p) is given 0 at the outlet

The dimensionless velocities (u v w) of 0 and the uniform heat 1047298ux

(qw) of 05 (Wm2) are granted at the wall boundary The numerical

Fig 2 Geometric shapes in physical and computational spaces

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The effective physical properties of the nano1047298uid are obtained as

functions of nanoparticle volume concentration (f) [22]

reff frac14 eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs (12)

meff frac14

123f2 thorn 73f thorn 1m f (13)

C p

eff frac14

eth1 fTHORN

rc p

f thorn f

rc p

s

eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs

(14)

keff frac14

0Bks thorn ethn 1THORNk f ethn 1THORNf

k f ks

ks thorn ethn 1THORNk f thorn f

k f ks

1CAk f (15)

The equation (13) of the effective viscosity was obtained by

performing a least-square curve 1047297tting of experimental data

available for the mixtures and presentedin the literature [15] Also

the equation (15) of the effective thermal conductivity was intro-

duced by Hamilton and Crosser [34] and was shown to be appro-

priate for the nano1047298uids in the literature [35] Here the

concentration of 0 means the pure water in which the nano-

particles are not included within The values of effective properties

used in this work are tabulated in Table 4

32 Results and discussions

The numerical analysis for the hydrodynamic and thermal 1047298ows

of nano1047298uid in the pipes with the return bend has been performed

with different concentrations and Reynolds numbers In total the

25 cases have been simulated in the conditions of the concentra-tions of 00 25 50 75 and 100 and the Reynolds numbers

of 10 25 50 75 and 100 respectively Forbetter understanding the

thermal and 1047298uid 1047298ows in the return bend the dimensionless

velocity and temperature distributions at the concentration of 0

are shown in Fig 7 and Fig 8 when the Reynolds numbers are 10

and 100 respectively The velocity pro1047297les at the Reynolds number

of 10 keep nearly parabolic shapes in the entire pipes However at

the Reynolds number of 100 the dimensionless velocity in the

outer region of the return bend appears higher than that in the

inner region This 1047298ow can affect the heat transfer characteristics in

the return bend and in the outlet pipe Also the heat transfer is

expected to be improved between the inside and the outside of the

pipe because the cold 1047298ow in the core of the inlet pipe shifts to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Fig 8The dimensionless velocity pro1047297les for the minus x-direction at

the cross section (AeA) are represented in Fig 9 The position of the

maximum velocity is moved towards the outer region of the return

bend as the Reynolds number increases The dimensionless

temperature at the wall of the return bend is higher than that at the

center as shown in Fig 10 because the heat 1047298ux is uniformly

supplied at the wall boundary However as the Reynolds number

increases the dimensionless temperature declines gradually in the

outer region of the return bend due to the cold 1047298ow from the inlet

pipe

The secondary 1047298ow occurs only in the return bend because of

the centrifugal force which acts in the vertical direction of the main

1047298ow as shown in Fig 11 In other words the two rotating 1047298ows at

the top and the bottomof the return bend occur due tothe different

centrifugal forces between in the inner region and in the outer

regions of the return bend Therefore the secondary 1047298ow can be

de1047297ned as the rotating 1047298ow in the circumferential direction It can

be seen in detail that the cold 1047298ow moves to the outer region with

the increase of the Reynolds number The dimensionless temper-

ature distribution at the Reynolds number of 10 is different from

Fig 5 Schematic representation for cross section of pipes with return bend

Fig 6 Boundary conditions for pipes with return bend

Table 3

Physical properties of water and Al2O3

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c heat

(JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Shape

factor (n)

Water 9980 10020E-03 41820 05984 e

Al2O3 39600 e 7530 460 3

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the distributions at the other Reynolds numbers More heat is

supplied into the outer region because the curved length in the

outer region is relatively longer than the length in the inner region

Thus the dimensionless temperature in the outer region at the

Reynolds number of 10 appears higher than that in the inner

region However at the otherReynolds numbers the dimensionless

temperature in the outer region is lower than that in the inner

region because the intensity of the secondary 1047298ow increased

gradually The velocity ratios of the secondary1047298owto the main1047298ow

rise with the increase of the Reynolds number as represented inFig 12

To investigate the role of the return bend the entire pipes are

divided into three parts the inlet pipe the return bend and the

outlet pipe The average Nusselt numbers at the concentration of 0

are obtained with the increase of the Reynolds number as shown in

Fig 13 Although the slopes appear different the average Nusselt

numbers rise in all parts because the inlet velocity increases with

increasing Reynolds number At the Reynolds numbers of 10 and

25 the average Nusselt numbers of the inlet pipe are relatively

higher than those of the return bend and the outlet pipe However

at the Reynolds numbers of 50 75 and 100 the average Nusselt

numbers of the return bend are larger than those of the inlet and

outlet pipes because the cold 1047298ow in the inlet pipe moves to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Figs 7 and 8 In otherwords the heat transfer in the return bend improves with the

increase of the Reynolds number due to the secondary 1047298ow On the

other hand the pressure drops are compared in each of three parts

as shown in Fig14 The pressure drops in the return bend are lower

than those in the inlet and outlet pipes because the pressure drop

depends mainly on the pipe length Here the length ratio of the

return bend to the straight pipe is about 047 The effect of the

secondary1047298ow is relatively small on the pressure loss The pressure

drops in the inlet pipe are higher than those in the outlet pipe It is

because the back pressure at the end of the inlet pipe is larger than

that at the end of the outlet pipe due to the return bend As a result

the return bend plays a major role in enhancing the heat transfer

without the large pressure loss

Fig15 shows the average Nusselt numbers at different Reynolds

numbers of 10 25 50 75 and 100 and concentrations of 00 25

50 75 and 100 respectively The average Nusselt numbers

increase with the rise of the Reynolds number and the concentra-

tion In general the heat transfer of the nano1047298uid is improved with

the augmentation of the concentration because the thermal

conductivity of the nano1047298uid grows with the concentration as

shown in Table 4 In addition the increment of the concentration is

accompanied by the rise of the inlet velocity at the same Reynolds

number as expressed in Table 5 Therefore these conditions cause

the increase of the average Nusselt number It is noted that the

results at the concentrations of 75 and 100 might not be correct

in reality because the stable nano1047298uid could not be found for suchhigh volume concentrations

For the entire pipes the increasing rates of the average Nusselt

number with the effect of the Reynolds number and the concen-

tration are illustrated in Fig16 These increments mean the ratios of

the average Nusselt numbers at the nano1047298uids to the average

Nusselt number at the pure water of the concentration of 00 Of

course the average Nusselt numbers continue to increase at the

entire pipes with increasing Reynolds number as shown in Fig 13

Also at the inlet pipe the increasing rates continue to be on the rise

with increasing Reynolds number as represented in Fig 17

However the slope of the average Nusselt numbers between the

Reynolds numbers of 25 and 50 is steeper than the slopes at the

other Reynolds numbers as shown in Fig 13 because the average

Nusselt number increases noticeably in the return bend at theReynolds number of 50 Although the average Nusselt numbers

have high values in the return bend at the Reynolds numbers of 75

and 100 they have relatively low values in the inlet and outlet

Table 4

Variations of effective physical properties with concentration

Concentration

()

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c

heat (JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Increasing

rates of

conductivity

()

00 9980 10020E-03 41820 059840 1000

25 10721 12619E-03 38653 064264 1074

50 11461 16758E-03 35896 068911 115275 12202 22439E-03 33473 073799 1233

100 12942 29659E-03 31328 078947 1319

Fig 7 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14

10

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pipes Therefore the increasing rate of the average Nusselt number

at the Reynolds of 50 is higher than the increasing rates at the other

Reynolds numbers Those rates decrease gradually at the Reynolds

numbers of 75 and 100 As a result it is noted that the increasing

rate of the average Nusselt number is affected by the return bend

On the other hand the highest increment approximately 112

appears at the Reynolds number of 50 and the concentration of

100 However this value does not reach up to the increasing rate

1152 for the thermal conductivity of the nano1047298uid as represented

in Table 4

The pressure drop between inlet and outlet of the pipe is

depicted in Fig 18 Here the dimensional pressure is used becausethe dimensionless pressure has the same value at the same Rey-

nolds number The pressure drop increases dramatically with the

increment of the Reynolds number The increasing rate of the

pressure drop at the concentration of 100 with respect to the

concentration of 00 appears nearly 6 times higher at all the

Reynolds numbers This value is considerably high in comparison

with the increasing rate of the heat transfer Consequently the high

pressure drop for the nano1047298uid should be given careful consider-

ation in designing heat exchangers although the nano1047298uid does not

have the characteristics such as poor suspension stability channel

clogging system abrasion and so on

In order to exclude the in1047298uence of the increasing inlet velocity

caused by the concentration the numerical analysis has been

conducted at the same volumetric 1047298ow rate in the pipe That is the

average Nusselt numbers are obtained in the condition of the samedimensionless inlet velocity at the concentrations of 00 and 100

as expressed in Fig 19 The results show that the average Nusselt

numbers at the concentration of 00 are higher than those at the

d

- u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

02

04

06

08

10

12

14

16

18

20

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 9 Dimensionless velocity pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

d

T

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 10 Dimensionless temperature pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

Fig 8 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14 100

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concentration of 100 This means that the increment of the inlet

velocity can improve the heat transfer in the pipe without using the

nano1047298uids Meanwhile the speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid decreases

with the increase of the concentration as shown in Table 4 For the

purpose of investigating the effect of the speci1047297c heat the addi-

tional numerical calculation is carried out with the increasing

speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid To achieve this the speci1047297c heat

31328 (JkgK) of the nano1047298uid at the concentration of 100 is

increased up to 41820 (JkgK) which is the value of the speci1047297c

heat at the concentration of 00 The results show that the average

Nusselt numbers increase with the speci1047297c heat as represented

with the symbol gt in Fig 19 It means that the speci1047297c heat can

play an important role in the heat transfer enhancement of the

nano1047298uid The pressure drop with respect to the dimensionless

inlet velocity is illustrated in Fig 20 The pressure drop at the

concentration of 100 is larger than that at the concentration of

00 because of the kinematic viscosity of the nano1047298uid

In the meantime the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient is

generally required when the temperature distribution is calculated

to design heat exchangers If the average Nusselt number is offered

Fig 11 Distributions of secondary 1047298ow and dimensionless temperature at cross section (AeA) of return bend

Re

V e l o c i t y r a t i o

s

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

010

012

014

016

018

020

022

024

026

Fig 12 Velocity ratios of secondary 1047298

ow to main 1047298

ow in return bend

Re

N u

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

Inlet pipe

Return bend

Outlet pipe

Entire pipes

Fig 13 Comparisons of average Nusselt numbers in various parts

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Nut frac14 18330 De02675 Pr 01900 ethentire pipesTHORN (19)

Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

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I Engineering Education System Austin Texas USA 1993

[34] RL Hamilton OK Crosser Thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two-component system IampEC Fundamentals 1 (1962) 187e191

[35] Y Xuan W Roetzel Conceptions for heat transfer correlations of nano-1047298uids International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 43 (19) (2000)3701e3707

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The dimensionless conservation equations are presented in

equations (1)e(3) which are continuity momentum and energy

equations respectively These equations written in the Cartesian

tensor form are for the 3-dimensional incompressible laminar 1047298ow

The viscous dissipation and the gravity terms are not considered

because these terms make little effects on the heat transfer analysis

in the pipe at relatively low Reynolds number

22 Finite element method

The FEM to solve the governing equations can be classi1047297ed into

the mixed interpolation methods the penalty methods and the

segregated velocityepressure solution methods [26] The segre-

gated scheme adopted in the present study requires much less

execution time and storage than the other two methods particu-

larly for the three-dimensional con1047297gurations Also the pressure is

computed only once in the stage of the pressure correction without

iterative calculations

Unlike the basic FVM (Finite Volume Method) the FEM can be

easily applied to the arbitrary shapes with multi-blocks because it

includes the concepts of the coordinate transformation for each

element in the local coordinate system On the other hand the FEMcode used in the present study has a limitation that the stability

requirement is needed due to the explicit scheme Therefore the

time step should be decided taking the Courant number and the

diffusion number into consideration

The numerical algorithm by FEM is shown in Fig 1 The velocity

and the pressure are obtained from the continuity and momentum

equations through the four stages of the solution procedures The

segregated approaches consist of convective approximation

viscous prediction pressure correction and velocity correction

[27e29] The temperature is acquired from the energy equation

through the two stages the convective approximation and the

diffusive prediction [30] When the temperature is calculated the

velocity is also required in the energy equation

221 Continuity and momentum equations

In the stage of the convective approximation the 1047297rst term and

the second convective term on the left-hand side are considered in

the momentum equation (2) After the Taylor series expansion the

Galerkin method and the Greenrsquos theorem are applied to these

terms the discretized equation comes out as shown in equation (4)

Here the 1047297rst term on the left-hand side is approximated by

a diagonal form and the integrations are calculated by the Gaussian

quadrature

Z U

N juc j dU frac14Z U

N juo j dU Dt Z U

N juo j

vuo j

v xkdU

thornethDt THORN2

2

Z G

N juoi u

ok

vuo j

v xinkdG (4)

In the stage of the viscous prediction the 1047297rst term on the left-

hand side and the second viscous term on the right-hand side are

used in the momentum equation (2) The discretized equation is

obtained by using the Galerkin method and the Green rsquos theorem

expressed in equation (5)

Z U

N juv

j dU frac14

Z U

N juc

j dU Dt

Re

Z U

vN jv xi

vuo j

v xidU thorn

Dt

Re

Z G

N jvuo

j

v xinidG (5)

In the stage of the pressurecorrection the continuity equation is

employed to compute the pressure values At 1047297rst only the two

terms which are composed of the 1047297rst term on the left-hand side

and the 1047297rst pressure term on the right-hand side in the

momentum equation (2) are considered When the gradient of the

two terms is taken and then the continuity equation is substituted

to this equation the pressure equation is obtained The Galerkin

method and the Greenrsquos theorem are also applied to the pressure

equation The discretized equation is

Z U

vN jv x j

v pn

v x jdU frac14

1

Dt

Z U

N jvuv

j

v x jdU thorn

Z G

N jv pn

v x jn jdG (6)

On the other hand the velocity values computed in the viscousprediction stage do not generally satisfy the continuity equation

Therefore the two terms of the momentum equation used in the

pressure correction stage are again taken into account in the stage

Fig 1 Flowchart of numerical algorithm

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of the velocity correction When the Galerkin method is applied to

this equation the discretized equation is obtained asZ U

N jun

j dU frac14

Z U

N juv

j dU Dt

Z U

N jv pn

v x jdU (7)

222 Energy equation

In the stage of the convective approximation the two terms of the energy equation (3) the 1047297rst term and second convective term

on the left-hand side are used to calculate the temperature The

discretized equation obtained by the Taylor series expansion the

Galerkin method and the Greenrsquos theorem isZ U

NT c dU frac14

Z U

NT odU Dt

Z U

Nunk

vT o

v xkdU

thornethDt THORN2

2

Z G

Nuni u

nk

vT o

v xinkdG (8)

In the stage of the diffusive prediction the 1047297rst term on the left-

hand side and the thermal diffusive term on the right-hand side of

the energy equation (3) are considered to calculate the 1047297

naltemperature values When the Taylor series expansion the Galerkin

method and the Greenrsquos theorem are also applied to this equation

the discretized equation is obtained asZ U

NT ndU frac14

Z U

NT c dU Dt

Pe

Z U

vN

v x j

vT o

v x jdU thorn

Dt

Pe

Z G

N vT o

v x jn jdG (9)

23 Validation of FEM code

Before the above 1047297nite element method is applied to the

hydrodynamic and thermal analyses in the pipes including a return

bend the numerical analysis is carried out for a straight pipe in

order to validate the FEM code because it has analytic solutions [31]

at steady state Furthermore at unsteady state the results by the

FEM code are compared with those by the CFX commercial soft-

ware [32] based on FVM Another reason why the straight pipe in

the validation is employed is that the straight pipe and the pipe

with the return bend have the same con1047297guration and boundary

conditions in the computational space Fig 2 (a) and (b) show the

geometric shapes of the straight pipe and the pipe with the return

bend respectively These geometric shapes are different in the

physical space However they have the same shape which is ob-

tained by conducting the coordinate transformations in order to

solve the governing equations in the computational space as

shown in Fig 2 (c) In addition the same types of boundary

conditions are used for the two geometric shapes In other words

these calculations are carried out with the same con1047297guration and

boundary conditions in the computational space Only the Jacobian

of transformation is different which is interpreted as the ratio of

the volumes in the physical space to that in the computational

space Therefore the validations by the FEM code in the straight

pipe are still available for the pipe with the return bend

231 Calculation conditions

The straight pipe which has the dimensionless diameter of 1and the dimensionless length of 10 is considered in the numerical

analysis The grids of the straight pipe consist of the nodal points of

5226 and the elements of 4875 for the FEM and the nodal points of

292800 and the elements of 301701 for the CFX respectively The

1047297ne meshes are used in the CFX for more accurate comparison

which are approximately 60 times as much element as in the FEM

The boundary conditions for the straight pipe are represented in

Table 1 The dimensionless velocity in the axial direction (w) and

the dimensionless temperature (T ) are set up to 1 and 0 each at the

inlet and the dimensionless pressure ( p) is given 0 at the outlet

The dimensionless velocities (u v w) of 0 and the uniform heat 1047298ux

(qw) of 05 (Wm2) are granted at the wall boundary The numerical

Fig 2 Geometric shapes in physical and computational spaces

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The effective physical properties of the nano1047298uid are obtained as

functions of nanoparticle volume concentration (f) [22]

reff frac14 eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs (12)

meff frac14

123f2 thorn 73f thorn 1m f (13)

C p

eff frac14

eth1 fTHORN

rc p

f thorn f

rc p

s

eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs

(14)

keff frac14

0Bks thorn ethn 1THORNk f ethn 1THORNf

k f ks

ks thorn ethn 1THORNk f thorn f

k f ks

1CAk f (15)

The equation (13) of the effective viscosity was obtained by

performing a least-square curve 1047297tting of experimental data

available for the mixtures and presentedin the literature [15] Also

the equation (15) of the effective thermal conductivity was intro-

duced by Hamilton and Crosser [34] and was shown to be appro-

priate for the nano1047298uids in the literature [35] Here the

concentration of 0 means the pure water in which the nano-

particles are not included within The values of effective properties

used in this work are tabulated in Table 4

32 Results and discussions

The numerical analysis for the hydrodynamic and thermal 1047298ows

of nano1047298uid in the pipes with the return bend has been performed

with different concentrations and Reynolds numbers In total the

25 cases have been simulated in the conditions of the concentra-tions of 00 25 50 75 and 100 and the Reynolds numbers

of 10 25 50 75 and 100 respectively Forbetter understanding the

thermal and 1047298uid 1047298ows in the return bend the dimensionless

velocity and temperature distributions at the concentration of 0

are shown in Fig 7 and Fig 8 when the Reynolds numbers are 10

and 100 respectively The velocity pro1047297les at the Reynolds number

of 10 keep nearly parabolic shapes in the entire pipes However at

the Reynolds number of 100 the dimensionless velocity in the

outer region of the return bend appears higher than that in the

inner region This 1047298ow can affect the heat transfer characteristics in

the return bend and in the outlet pipe Also the heat transfer is

expected to be improved between the inside and the outside of the

pipe because the cold 1047298ow in the core of the inlet pipe shifts to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Fig 8The dimensionless velocity pro1047297les for the minus x-direction at

the cross section (AeA) are represented in Fig 9 The position of the

maximum velocity is moved towards the outer region of the return

bend as the Reynolds number increases The dimensionless

temperature at the wall of the return bend is higher than that at the

center as shown in Fig 10 because the heat 1047298ux is uniformly

supplied at the wall boundary However as the Reynolds number

increases the dimensionless temperature declines gradually in the

outer region of the return bend due to the cold 1047298ow from the inlet

pipe

The secondary 1047298ow occurs only in the return bend because of

the centrifugal force which acts in the vertical direction of the main

1047298ow as shown in Fig 11 In other words the two rotating 1047298ows at

the top and the bottomof the return bend occur due tothe different

centrifugal forces between in the inner region and in the outer

regions of the return bend Therefore the secondary 1047298ow can be

de1047297ned as the rotating 1047298ow in the circumferential direction It can

be seen in detail that the cold 1047298ow moves to the outer region with

the increase of the Reynolds number The dimensionless temper-

ature distribution at the Reynolds number of 10 is different from

Fig 5 Schematic representation for cross section of pipes with return bend

Fig 6 Boundary conditions for pipes with return bend

Table 3

Physical properties of water and Al2O3

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c heat

(JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Shape

factor (n)

Water 9980 10020E-03 41820 05984 e

Al2O3 39600 e 7530 460 3

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the distributions at the other Reynolds numbers More heat is

supplied into the outer region because the curved length in the

outer region is relatively longer than the length in the inner region

Thus the dimensionless temperature in the outer region at the

Reynolds number of 10 appears higher than that in the inner

region However at the otherReynolds numbers the dimensionless

temperature in the outer region is lower than that in the inner

region because the intensity of the secondary 1047298ow increased

gradually The velocity ratios of the secondary1047298owto the main1047298ow

rise with the increase of the Reynolds number as represented inFig 12

To investigate the role of the return bend the entire pipes are

divided into three parts the inlet pipe the return bend and the

outlet pipe The average Nusselt numbers at the concentration of 0

are obtained with the increase of the Reynolds number as shown in

Fig 13 Although the slopes appear different the average Nusselt

numbers rise in all parts because the inlet velocity increases with

increasing Reynolds number At the Reynolds numbers of 10 and

25 the average Nusselt numbers of the inlet pipe are relatively

higher than those of the return bend and the outlet pipe However

at the Reynolds numbers of 50 75 and 100 the average Nusselt

numbers of the return bend are larger than those of the inlet and

outlet pipes because the cold 1047298ow in the inlet pipe moves to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Figs 7 and 8 In otherwords the heat transfer in the return bend improves with the

increase of the Reynolds number due to the secondary 1047298ow On the

other hand the pressure drops are compared in each of three parts

as shown in Fig14 The pressure drops in the return bend are lower

than those in the inlet and outlet pipes because the pressure drop

depends mainly on the pipe length Here the length ratio of the

return bend to the straight pipe is about 047 The effect of the

secondary1047298ow is relatively small on the pressure loss The pressure

drops in the inlet pipe are higher than those in the outlet pipe It is

because the back pressure at the end of the inlet pipe is larger than

that at the end of the outlet pipe due to the return bend As a result

the return bend plays a major role in enhancing the heat transfer

without the large pressure loss

Fig15 shows the average Nusselt numbers at different Reynolds

numbers of 10 25 50 75 and 100 and concentrations of 00 25

50 75 and 100 respectively The average Nusselt numbers

increase with the rise of the Reynolds number and the concentra-

tion In general the heat transfer of the nano1047298uid is improved with

the augmentation of the concentration because the thermal

conductivity of the nano1047298uid grows with the concentration as

shown in Table 4 In addition the increment of the concentration is

accompanied by the rise of the inlet velocity at the same Reynolds

number as expressed in Table 5 Therefore these conditions cause

the increase of the average Nusselt number It is noted that the

results at the concentrations of 75 and 100 might not be correct

in reality because the stable nano1047298uid could not be found for suchhigh volume concentrations

For the entire pipes the increasing rates of the average Nusselt

number with the effect of the Reynolds number and the concen-

tration are illustrated in Fig16 These increments mean the ratios of

the average Nusselt numbers at the nano1047298uids to the average

Nusselt number at the pure water of the concentration of 00 Of

course the average Nusselt numbers continue to increase at the

entire pipes with increasing Reynolds number as shown in Fig 13

Also at the inlet pipe the increasing rates continue to be on the rise

with increasing Reynolds number as represented in Fig 17

However the slope of the average Nusselt numbers between the

Reynolds numbers of 25 and 50 is steeper than the slopes at the

other Reynolds numbers as shown in Fig 13 because the average

Nusselt number increases noticeably in the return bend at theReynolds number of 50 Although the average Nusselt numbers

have high values in the return bend at the Reynolds numbers of 75

and 100 they have relatively low values in the inlet and outlet

Table 4

Variations of effective physical properties with concentration

Concentration

()

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c

heat (JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Increasing

rates of

conductivity

()

00 9980 10020E-03 41820 059840 1000

25 10721 12619E-03 38653 064264 1074

50 11461 16758E-03 35896 068911 115275 12202 22439E-03 33473 073799 1233

100 12942 29659E-03 31328 078947 1319

Fig 7 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14

10

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pipes Therefore the increasing rate of the average Nusselt number

at the Reynolds of 50 is higher than the increasing rates at the other

Reynolds numbers Those rates decrease gradually at the Reynolds

numbers of 75 and 100 As a result it is noted that the increasing

rate of the average Nusselt number is affected by the return bend

On the other hand the highest increment approximately 112

appears at the Reynolds number of 50 and the concentration of

100 However this value does not reach up to the increasing rate

1152 for the thermal conductivity of the nano1047298uid as represented

in Table 4

The pressure drop between inlet and outlet of the pipe is

depicted in Fig 18 Here the dimensional pressure is used becausethe dimensionless pressure has the same value at the same Rey-

nolds number The pressure drop increases dramatically with the

increment of the Reynolds number The increasing rate of the

pressure drop at the concentration of 100 with respect to the

concentration of 00 appears nearly 6 times higher at all the

Reynolds numbers This value is considerably high in comparison

with the increasing rate of the heat transfer Consequently the high

pressure drop for the nano1047298uid should be given careful consider-

ation in designing heat exchangers although the nano1047298uid does not

have the characteristics such as poor suspension stability channel

clogging system abrasion and so on

In order to exclude the in1047298uence of the increasing inlet velocity

caused by the concentration the numerical analysis has been

conducted at the same volumetric 1047298ow rate in the pipe That is the

average Nusselt numbers are obtained in the condition of the samedimensionless inlet velocity at the concentrations of 00 and 100

as expressed in Fig 19 The results show that the average Nusselt

numbers at the concentration of 00 are higher than those at the

d

- u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

02

04

06

08

10

12

14

16

18

20

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 9 Dimensionless velocity pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

d

T

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 10 Dimensionless temperature pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

Fig 8 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14 100

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concentration of 100 This means that the increment of the inlet

velocity can improve the heat transfer in the pipe without using the

nano1047298uids Meanwhile the speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid decreases

with the increase of the concentration as shown in Table 4 For the

purpose of investigating the effect of the speci1047297c heat the addi-

tional numerical calculation is carried out with the increasing

speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid To achieve this the speci1047297c heat

31328 (JkgK) of the nano1047298uid at the concentration of 100 is

increased up to 41820 (JkgK) which is the value of the speci1047297c

heat at the concentration of 00 The results show that the average

Nusselt numbers increase with the speci1047297c heat as represented

with the symbol gt in Fig 19 It means that the speci1047297c heat can

play an important role in the heat transfer enhancement of the

nano1047298uid The pressure drop with respect to the dimensionless

inlet velocity is illustrated in Fig 20 The pressure drop at the

concentration of 100 is larger than that at the concentration of

00 because of the kinematic viscosity of the nano1047298uid

In the meantime the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient is

generally required when the temperature distribution is calculated

to design heat exchangers If the average Nusselt number is offered

Fig 11 Distributions of secondary 1047298ow and dimensionless temperature at cross section (AeA) of return bend

Re

V e l o c i t y r a t i o

s

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

010

012

014

016

018

020

022

024

026

Fig 12 Velocity ratios of secondary 1047298

ow to main 1047298

ow in return bend

Re

N u

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

Inlet pipe

Return bend

Outlet pipe

Entire pipes

Fig 13 Comparisons of average Nusselt numbers in various parts

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Nut frac14 18330 De02675 Pr 01900 ethentire pipesTHORN (19)

Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

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[15] SEB Maiumlga CT Nguyen N Galanis G Roy Heat transfer behaviours of nano1047298uids in a uniformly heated tube Superlattices and Microstructures 35(2004) 543e557

[16] SEB Maiumlga SJ Palm CT Nguyen G Roy N Galanis Heat transferenhancement by using nano1047298uids in forced convection 1047298ows International

Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 26 (2005) 530e546[17] Y Ding H Alias D Wen RA Williams Heat transfer of aqueous suspensions

of carbon nanotubes(CNT nano1047298uids) International Journal of Heat and MassTransfer 49 (2006) 240e250

[18] BH Chun HU Kang SH Kim Effect of alumina nanoparticles in the 1047298uid onheat transfer in double-pipe heat exchanger system Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 25 (5) (2008) 966e971

[19] Y He Y Men X Liu H Lu H Chen Y Ding Study on forced convective heattransfer of non-newtonian nano1047298uids Journal of Thermal Science 18 (1)(2009) 20e26

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[31] P Oosthuizen D Naylor Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer AnalysisWCBMcGraw-Hill New York USA 1999

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of the velocity correction When the Galerkin method is applied to

this equation the discretized equation is obtained asZ U

N jun

j dU frac14

Z U

N juv

j dU Dt

Z U

N jv pn

v x jdU (7)

222 Energy equation

In the stage of the convective approximation the two terms of the energy equation (3) the 1047297rst term and second convective term

on the left-hand side are used to calculate the temperature The

discretized equation obtained by the Taylor series expansion the

Galerkin method and the Greenrsquos theorem isZ U

NT c dU frac14

Z U

NT odU Dt

Z U

Nunk

vT o

v xkdU

thornethDt THORN2

2

Z G

Nuni u

nk

vT o

v xinkdG (8)

In the stage of the diffusive prediction the 1047297rst term on the left-

hand side and the thermal diffusive term on the right-hand side of

the energy equation (3) are considered to calculate the 1047297

naltemperature values When the Taylor series expansion the Galerkin

method and the Greenrsquos theorem are also applied to this equation

the discretized equation is obtained asZ U

NT ndU frac14

Z U

NT c dU Dt

Pe

Z U

vN

v x j

vT o

v x jdU thorn

Dt

Pe

Z G

N vT o

v x jn jdG (9)

23 Validation of FEM code

Before the above 1047297nite element method is applied to the

hydrodynamic and thermal analyses in the pipes including a return

bend the numerical analysis is carried out for a straight pipe in

order to validate the FEM code because it has analytic solutions [31]

at steady state Furthermore at unsteady state the results by the

FEM code are compared with those by the CFX commercial soft-

ware [32] based on FVM Another reason why the straight pipe in

the validation is employed is that the straight pipe and the pipe

with the return bend have the same con1047297guration and boundary

conditions in the computational space Fig 2 (a) and (b) show the

geometric shapes of the straight pipe and the pipe with the return

bend respectively These geometric shapes are different in the

physical space However they have the same shape which is ob-

tained by conducting the coordinate transformations in order to

solve the governing equations in the computational space as

shown in Fig 2 (c) In addition the same types of boundary

conditions are used for the two geometric shapes In other words

these calculations are carried out with the same con1047297guration and

boundary conditions in the computational space Only the Jacobian

of transformation is different which is interpreted as the ratio of

the volumes in the physical space to that in the computational

space Therefore the validations by the FEM code in the straight

pipe are still available for the pipe with the return bend

231 Calculation conditions

The straight pipe which has the dimensionless diameter of 1and the dimensionless length of 10 is considered in the numerical

analysis The grids of the straight pipe consist of the nodal points of

5226 and the elements of 4875 for the FEM and the nodal points of

292800 and the elements of 301701 for the CFX respectively The

1047297ne meshes are used in the CFX for more accurate comparison

which are approximately 60 times as much element as in the FEM

The boundary conditions for the straight pipe are represented in

Table 1 The dimensionless velocity in the axial direction (w) and

the dimensionless temperature (T ) are set up to 1 and 0 each at the

inlet and the dimensionless pressure ( p) is given 0 at the outlet

The dimensionless velocities (u v w) of 0 and the uniform heat 1047298ux

(qw) of 05 (Wm2) are granted at the wall boundary The numerical

Fig 2 Geometric shapes in physical and computational spaces

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The effective physical properties of the nano1047298uid are obtained as

functions of nanoparticle volume concentration (f) [22]

reff frac14 eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs (12)

meff frac14

123f2 thorn 73f thorn 1m f (13)

C p

eff frac14

eth1 fTHORN

rc p

f thorn f

rc p

s

eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs

(14)

keff frac14

0Bks thorn ethn 1THORNk f ethn 1THORNf

k f ks

ks thorn ethn 1THORNk f thorn f

k f ks

1CAk f (15)

The equation (13) of the effective viscosity was obtained by

performing a least-square curve 1047297tting of experimental data

available for the mixtures and presentedin the literature [15] Also

the equation (15) of the effective thermal conductivity was intro-

duced by Hamilton and Crosser [34] and was shown to be appro-

priate for the nano1047298uids in the literature [35] Here the

concentration of 0 means the pure water in which the nano-

particles are not included within The values of effective properties

used in this work are tabulated in Table 4

32 Results and discussions

The numerical analysis for the hydrodynamic and thermal 1047298ows

of nano1047298uid in the pipes with the return bend has been performed

with different concentrations and Reynolds numbers In total the

25 cases have been simulated in the conditions of the concentra-tions of 00 25 50 75 and 100 and the Reynolds numbers

of 10 25 50 75 and 100 respectively Forbetter understanding the

thermal and 1047298uid 1047298ows in the return bend the dimensionless

velocity and temperature distributions at the concentration of 0

are shown in Fig 7 and Fig 8 when the Reynolds numbers are 10

and 100 respectively The velocity pro1047297les at the Reynolds number

of 10 keep nearly parabolic shapes in the entire pipes However at

the Reynolds number of 100 the dimensionless velocity in the

outer region of the return bend appears higher than that in the

inner region This 1047298ow can affect the heat transfer characteristics in

the return bend and in the outlet pipe Also the heat transfer is

expected to be improved between the inside and the outside of the

pipe because the cold 1047298ow in the core of the inlet pipe shifts to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Fig 8The dimensionless velocity pro1047297les for the minus x-direction at

the cross section (AeA) are represented in Fig 9 The position of the

maximum velocity is moved towards the outer region of the return

bend as the Reynolds number increases The dimensionless

temperature at the wall of the return bend is higher than that at the

center as shown in Fig 10 because the heat 1047298ux is uniformly

supplied at the wall boundary However as the Reynolds number

increases the dimensionless temperature declines gradually in the

outer region of the return bend due to the cold 1047298ow from the inlet

pipe

The secondary 1047298ow occurs only in the return bend because of

the centrifugal force which acts in the vertical direction of the main

1047298ow as shown in Fig 11 In other words the two rotating 1047298ows at

the top and the bottomof the return bend occur due tothe different

centrifugal forces between in the inner region and in the outer

regions of the return bend Therefore the secondary 1047298ow can be

de1047297ned as the rotating 1047298ow in the circumferential direction It can

be seen in detail that the cold 1047298ow moves to the outer region with

the increase of the Reynolds number The dimensionless temper-

ature distribution at the Reynolds number of 10 is different from

Fig 5 Schematic representation for cross section of pipes with return bend

Fig 6 Boundary conditions for pipes with return bend

Table 3

Physical properties of water and Al2O3

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c heat

(JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Shape

factor (n)

Water 9980 10020E-03 41820 05984 e

Al2O3 39600 e 7530 460 3

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the distributions at the other Reynolds numbers More heat is

supplied into the outer region because the curved length in the

outer region is relatively longer than the length in the inner region

Thus the dimensionless temperature in the outer region at the

Reynolds number of 10 appears higher than that in the inner

region However at the otherReynolds numbers the dimensionless

temperature in the outer region is lower than that in the inner

region because the intensity of the secondary 1047298ow increased

gradually The velocity ratios of the secondary1047298owto the main1047298ow

rise with the increase of the Reynolds number as represented inFig 12

To investigate the role of the return bend the entire pipes are

divided into three parts the inlet pipe the return bend and the

outlet pipe The average Nusselt numbers at the concentration of 0

are obtained with the increase of the Reynolds number as shown in

Fig 13 Although the slopes appear different the average Nusselt

numbers rise in all parts because the inlet velocity increases with

increasing Reynolds number At the Reynolds numbers of 10 and

25 the average Nusselt numbers of the inlet pipe are relatively

higher than those of the return bend and the outlet pipe However

at the Reynolds numbers of 50 75 and 100 the average Nusselt

numbers of the return bend are larger than those of the inlet and

outlet pipes because the cold 1047298ow in the inlet pipe moves to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Figs 7 and 8 In otherwords the heat transfer in the return bend improves with the

increase of the Reynolds number due to the secondary 1047298ow On the

other hand the pressure drops are compared in each of three parts

as shown in Fig14 The pressure drops in the return bend are lower

than those in the inlet and outlet pipes because the pressure drop

depends mainly on the pipe length Here the length ratio of the

return bend to the straight pipe is about 047 The effect of the

secondary1047298ow is relatively small on the pressure loss The pressure

drops in the inlet pipe are higher than those in the outlet pipe It is

because the back pressure at the end of the inlet pipe is larger than

that at the end of the outlet pipe due to the return bend As a result

the return bend plays a major role in enhancing the heat transfer

without the large pressure loss

Fig15 shows the average Nusselt numbers at different Reynolds

numbers of 10 25 50 75 and 100 and concentrations of 00 25

50 75 and 100 respectively The average Nusselt numbers

increase with the rise of the Reynolds number and the concentra-

tion In general the heat transfer of the nano1047298uid is improved with

the augmentation of the concentration because the thermal

conductivity of the nano1047298uid grows with the concentration as

shown in Table 4 In addition the increment of the concentration is

accompanied by the rise of the inlet velocity at the same Reynolds

number as expressed in Table 5 Therefore these conditions cause

the increase of the average Nusselt number It is noted that the

results at the concentrations of 75 and 100 might not be correct

in reality because the stable nano1047298uid could not be found for suchhigh volume concentrations

For the entire pipes the increasing rates of the average Nusselt

number with the effect of the Reynolds number and the concen-

tration are illustrated in Fig16 These increments mean the ratios of

the average Nusselt numbers at the nano1047298uids to the average

Nusselt number at the pure water of the concentration of 00 Of

course the average Nusselt numbers continue to increase at the

entire pipes with increasing Reynolds number as shown in Fig 13

Also at the inlet pipe the increasing rates continue to be on the rise

with increasing Reynolds number as represented in Fig 17

However the slope of the average Nusselt numbers between the

Reynolds numbers of 25 and 50 is steeper than the slopes at the

other Reynolds numbers as shown in Fig 13 because the average

Nusselt number increases noticeably in the return bend at theReynolds number of 50 Although the average Nusselt numbers

have high values in the return bend at the Reynolds numbers of 75

and 100 they have relatively low values in the inlet and outlet

Table 4

Variations of effective physical properties with concentration

Concentration

()

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c

heat (JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Increasing

rates of

conductivity

()

00 9980 10020E-03 41820 059840 1000

25 10721 12619E-03 38653 064264 1074

50 11461 16758E-03 35896 068911 115275 12202 22439E-03 33473 073799 1233

100 12942 29659E-03 31328 078947 1319

Fig 7 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14

10

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pipes Therefore the increasing rate of the average Nusselt number

at the Reynolds of 50 is higher than the increasing rates at the other

Reynolds numbers Those rates decrease gradually at the Reynolds

numbers of 75 and 100 As a result it is noted that the increasing

rate of the average Nusselt number is affected by the return bend

On the other hand the highest increment approximately 112

appears at the Reynolds number of 50 and the concentration of

100 However this value does not reach up to the increasing rate

1152 for the thermal conductivity of the nano1047298uid as represented

in Table 4

The pressure drop between inlet and outlet of the pipe is

depicted in Fig 18 Here the dimensional pressure is used becausethe dimensionless pressure has the same value at the same Rey-

nolds number The pressure drop increases dramatically with the

increment of the Reynolds number The increasing rate of the

pressure drop at the concentration of 100 with respect to the

concentration of 00 appears nearly 6 times higher at all the

Reynolds numbers This value is considerably high in comparison

with the increasing rate of the heat transfer Consequently the high

pressure drop for the nano1047298uid should be given careful consider-

ation in designing heat exchangers although the nano1047298uid does not

have the characteristics such as poor suspension stability channel

clogging system abrasion and so on

In order to exclude the in1047298uence of the increasing inlet velocity

caused by the concentration the numerical analysis has been

conducted at the same volumetric 1047298ow rate in the pipe That is the

average Nusselt numbers are obtained in the condition of the samedimensionless inlet velocity at the concentrations of 00 and 100

as expressed in Fig 19 The results show that the average Nusselt

numbers at the concentration of 00 are higher than those at the

d

- u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

02

04

06

08

10

12

14

16

18

20

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 9 Dimensionless velocity pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

d

T

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 10 Dimensionless temperature pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

Fig 8 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14 100

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concentration of 100 This means that the increment of the inlet

velocity can improve the heat transfer in the pipe without using the

nano1047298uids Meanwhile the speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid decreases

with the increase of the concentration as shown in Table 4 For the

purpose of investigating the effect of the speci1047297c heat the addi-

tional numerical calculation is carried out with the increasing

speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid To achieve this the speci1047297c heat

31328 (JkgK) of the nano1047298uid at the concentration of 100 is

increased up to 41820 (JkgK) which is the value of the speci1047297c

heat at the concentration of 00 The results show that the average

Nusselt numbers increase with the speci1047297c heat as represented

with the symbol gt in Fig 19 It means that the speci1047297c heat can

play an important role in the heat transfer enhancement of the

nano1047298uid The pressure drop with respect to the dimensionless

inlet velocity is illustrated in Fig 20 The pressure drop at the

concentration of 100 is larger than that at the concentration of

00 because of the kinematic viscosity of the nano1047298uid

In the meantime the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient is

generally required when the temperature distribution is calculated

to design heat exchangers If the average Nusselt number is offered

Fig 11 Distributions of secondary 1047298ow and dimensionless temperature at cross section (AeA) of return bend

Re

V e l o c i t y r a t i o

s

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

010

012

014

016

018

020

022

024

026

Fig 12 Velocity ratios of secondary 1047298

ow to main 1047298

ow in return bend

Re

N u

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

Inlet pipe

Return bend

Outlet pipe

Entire pipes

Fig 13 Comparisons of average Nusselt numbers in various parts

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Nut frac14 18330 De02675 Pr 01900 ethentire pipesTHORN (19)

Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

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[19] Y He Y Men X Liu H Lu H Chen Y Ding Study on forced convective heattransfer of non-newtonian nano1047298uids Journal of Thermal Science 18 (1)(2009) 20e26

[20] AD Sommers KL Yerkes Experimental investigation into the convectiveheat transfer and system-level effects of Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid Journal of Nanoparticle Research 12 (2010) 1003e1014

[21] K Alammar L Hu Laminar 1047298ow and heat transfer characteristics of nano-particle colloidal dispersions in water Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 541e546

[22] A Akbarinia A Behzadmehr Numerical study of laminar mixed convection of a nano1047298uid in horizontal curved tubes Applied Thermal Engineering 27(2007) 1327e1337

[23] A Akbarinia Impacts of nano1047298uid 1047298ow on skin friction factor and Nusseltnumber in curved tubes with constant mass 1047298ow International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 29 (2008) 229e241

[24] A Akbarinia R Laur Investigating the diameter of solid particles effects ona laminar nano1047298uid 1047298ow in a curved tube using a two phase approachInternational Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 30 (2009) 706e714

[25] Y Xuan Q Li Heat transfer enhancement of nano1047298uids International Journalof Heat and Fluid Flow 21 (2000) 58e64

[26] JE Akin Finite Elements for Analysis and Design Academic Press San DiegoUSA 1994

[27] B Ramaswamy Finite element solution for advection and natural convection1047298ows Computers amp Fluids 16 (4) (1988) 349e388

[28] B Ramaswamy Ef 1047297cient 1047297nite element method f or two-dimensional 1047298uid1047298ow and heat transfer problems Numerical Heat Transfer Part B 17 (1990)123e154

[29] B Ramaswamy TC Jue JE Akin Semi-implicit and explicit 1047297nite elementschemes for coupled 1047298uidthermal problems International Journal forNumerical Methods in Engineering 34 (1992) 675e696

[30] KS Cha JW Choi CG Park Finite element analysis of 1047298uid 1047298ows withmoving boundary Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology 16 (5)(2002) 683e695

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[31] P Oosthuizen D Naylor Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer AnalysisWCBMcGraw-Hill New York USA 1999

[32] ANSYS CFX Userrsquos Guide(ANSYS CFX Release 121) ANSYS Inc PA USA 2009[33] KA Hoffmann ST Chiang Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers Vol

I Engineering Education System Austin Texas USA 1993

[34] RL Hamilton OK Crosser Thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two-component system IampEC Fundamentals 1 (1962) 187e191

[35] Y Xuan W Roetzel Conceptions for heat transfer correlations of nano-1047298uids International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 43 (19) (2000)3701e3707

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The effective physical properties of the nano1047298uid are obtained as

functions of nanoparticle volume concentration (f) [22]

reff frac14 eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs (12)

meff frac14

123f2 thorn 73f thorn 1m f (13)

C p

eff frac14

eth1 fTHORN

rc p

f thorn f

rc p

s

eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs

(14)

keff frac14

0Bks thorn ethn 1THORNk f ethn 1THORNf

k f ks

ks thorn ethn 1THORNk f thorn f

k f ks

1CAk f (15)

The equation (13) of the effective viscosity was obtained by

performing a least-square curve 1047297tting of experimental data

available for the mixtures and presentedin the literature [15] Also

the equation (15) of the effective thermal conductivity was intro-

duced by Hamilton and Crosser [34] and was shown to be appro-

priate for the nano1047298uids in the literature [35] Here the

concentration of 0 means the pure water in which the nano-

particles are not included within The values of effective properties

used in this work are tabulated in Table 4

32 Results and discussions

The numerical analysis for the hydrodynamic and thermal 1047298ows

of nano1047298uid in the pipes with the return bend has been performed

with different concentrations and Reynolds numbers In total the

25 cases have been simulated in the conditions of the concentra-tions of 00 25 50 75 and 100 and the Reynolds numbers

of 10 25 50 75 and 100 respectively Forbetter understanding the

thermal and 1047298uid 1047298ows in the return bend the dimensionless

velocity and temperature distributions at the concentration of 0

are shown in Fig 7 and Fig 8 when the Reynolds numbers are 10

and 100 respectively The velocity pro1047297les at the Reynolds number

of 10 keep nearly parabolic shapes in the entire pipes However at

the Reynolds number of 100 the dimensionless velocity in the

outer region of the return bend appears higher than that in the

inner region This 1047298ow can affect the heat transfer characteristics in

the return bend and in the outlet pipe Also the heat transfer is

expected to be improved between the inside and the outside of the

pipe because the cold 1047298ow in the core of the inlet pipe shifts to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Fig 8The dimensionless velocity pro1047297les for the minus x-direction at

the cross section (AeA) are represented in Fig 9 The position of the

maximum velocity is moved towards the outer region of the return

bend as the Reynolds number increases The dimensionless

temperature at the wall of the return bend is higher than that at the

center as shown in Fig 10 because the heat 1047298ux is uniformly

supplied at the wall boundary However as the Reynolds number

increases the dimensionless temperature declines gradually in the

outer region of the return bend due to the cold 1047298ow from the inlet

pipe

The secondary 1047298ow occurs only in the return bend because of

the centrifugal force which acts in the vertical direction of the main

1047298ow as shown in Fig 11 In other words the two rotating 1047298ows at

the top and the bottomof the return bend occur due tothe different

centrifugal forces between in the inner region and in the outer

regions of the return bend Therefore the secondary 1047298ow can be

de1047297ned as the rotating 1047298ow in the circumferential direction It can

be seen in detail that the cold 1047298ow moves to the outer region with

the increase of the Reynolds number The dimensionless temper-

ature distribution at the Reynolds number of 10 is different from

Fig 5 Schematic representation for cross section of pipes with return bend

Fig 6 Boundary conditions for pipes with return bend

Table 3

Physical properties of water and Al2O3

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c heat

(JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Shape

factor (n)

Water 9980 10020E-03 41820 05984 e

Al2O3 39600 e 7530 460 3

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the distributions at the other Reynolds numbers More heat is

supplied into the outer region because the curved length in the

outer region is relatively longer than the length in the inner region

Thus the dimensionless temperature in the outer region at the

Reynolds number of 10 appears higher than that in the inner

region However at the otherReynolds numbers the dimensionless

temperature in the outer region is lower than that in the inner

region because the intensity of the secondary 1047298ow increased

gradually The velocity ratios of the secondary1047298owto the main1047298ow

rise with the increase of the Reynolds number as represented inFig 12

To investigate the role of the return bend the entire pipes are

divided into three parts the inlet pipe the return bend and the

outlet pipe The average Nusselt numbers at the concentration of 0

are obtained with the increase of the Reynolds number as shown in

Fig 13 Although the slopes appear different the average Nusselt

numbers rise in all parts because the inlet velocity increases with

increasing Reynolds number At the Reynolds numbers of 10 and

25 the average Nusselt numbers of the inlet pipe are relatively

higher than those of the return bend and the outlet pipe However

at the Reynolds numbers of 50 75 and 100 the average Nusselt

numbers of the return bend are larger than those of the inlet and

outlet pipes because the cold 1047298ow in the inlet pipe moves to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Figs 7 and 8 In otherwords the heat transfer in the return bend improves with the

increase of the Reynolds number due to the secondary 1047298ow On the

other hand the pressure drops are compared in each of three parts

as shown in Fig14 The pressure drops in the return bend are lower

than those in the inlet and outlet pipes because the pressure drop

depends mainly on the pipe length Here the length ratio of the

return bend to the straight pipe is about 047 The effect of the

secondary1047298ow is relatively small on the pressure loss The pressure

drops in the inlet pipe are higher than those in the outlet pipe It is

because the back pressure at the end of the inlet pipe is larger than

that at the end of the outlet pipe due to the return bend As a result

the return bend plays a major role in enhancing the heat transfer

without the large pressure loss

Fig15 shows the average Nusselt numbers at different Reynolds

numbers of 10 25 50 75 and 100 and concentrations of 00 25

50 75 and 100 respectively The average Nusselt numbers

increase with the rise of the Reynolds number and the concentra-

tion In general the heat transfer of the nano1047298uid is improved with

the augmentation of the concentration because the thermal

conductivity of the nano1047298uid grows with the concentration as

shown in Table 4 In addition the increment of the concentration is

accompanied by the rise of the inlet velocity at the same Reynolds

number as expressed in Table 5 Therefore these conditions cause

the increase of the average Nusselt number It is noted that the

results at the concentrations of 75 and 100 might not be correct

in reality because the stable nano1047298uid could not be found for suchhigh volume concentrations

For the entire pipes the increasing rates of the average Nusselt

number with the effect of the Reynolds number and the concen-

tration are illustrated in Fig16 These increments mean the ratios of

the average Nusselt numbers at the nano1047298uids to the average

Nusselt number at the pure water of the concentration of 00 Of

course the average Nusselt numbers continue to increase at the

entire pipes with increasing Reynolds number as shown in Fig 13

Also at the inlet pipe the increasing rates continue to be on the rise

with increasing Reynolds number as represented in Fig 17

However the slope of the average Nusselt numbers between the

Reynolds numbers of 25 and 50 is steeper than the slopes at the

other Reynolds numbers as shown in Fig 13 because the average

Nusselt number increases noticeably in the return bend at theReynolds number of 50 Although the average Nusselt numbers

have high values in the return bend at the Reynolds numbers of 75

and 100 they have relatively low values in the inlet and outlet

Table 4

Variations of effective physical properties with concentration

Concentration

()

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c

heat (JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Increasing

rates of

conductivity

()

00 9980 10020E-03 41820 059840 1000

25 10721 12619E-03 38653 064264 1074

50 11461 16758E-03 35896 068911 115275 12202 22439E-03 33473 073799 1233

100 12942 29659E-03 31328 078947 1319

Fig 7 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14

10

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pipes Therefore the increasing rate of the average Nusselt number

at the Reynolds of 50 is higher than the increasing rates at the other

Reynolds numbers Those rates decrease gradually at the Reynolds

numbers of 75 and 100 As a result it is noted that the increasing

rate of the average Nusselt number is affected by the return bend

On the other hand the highest increment approximately 112

appears at the Reynolds number of 50 and the concentration of

100 However this value does not reach up to the increasing rate

1152 for the thermal conductivity of the nano1047298uid as represented

in Table 4

The pressure drop between inlet and outlet of the pipe is

depicted in Fig 18 Here the dimensional pressure is used becausethe dimensionless pressure has the same value at the same Rey-

nolds number The pressure drop increases dramatically with the

increment of the Reynolds number The increasing rate of the

pressure drop at the concentration of 100 with respect to the

concentration of 00 appears nearly 6 times higher at all the

Reynolds numbers This value is considerably high in comparison

with the increasing rate of the heat transfer Consequently the high

pressure drop for the nano1047298uid should be given careful consider-

ation in designing heat exchangers although the nano1047298uid does not

have the characteristics such as poor suspension stability channel

clogging system abrasion and so on

In order to exclude the in1047298uence of the increasing inlet velocity

caused by the concentration the numerical analysis has been

conducted at the same volumetric 1047298ow rate in the pipe That is the

average Nusselt numbers are obtained in the condition of the samedimensionless inlet velocity at the concentrations of 00 and 100

as expressed in Fig 19 The results show that the average Nusselt

numbers at the concentration of 00 are higher than those at the

d

- u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

02

04

06

08

10

12

14

16

18

20

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 9 Dimensionless velocity pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

d

T

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 10 Dimensionless temperature pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

Fig 8 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14 100

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concentration of 100 This means that the increment of the inlet

velocity can improve the heat transfer in the pipe without using the

nano1047298uids Meanwhile the speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid decreases

with the increase of the concentration as shown in Table 4 For the

purpose of investigating the effect of the speci1047297c heat the addi-

tional numerical calculation is carried out with the increasing

speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid To achieve this the speci1047297c heat

31328 (JkgK) of the nano1047298uid at the concentration of 100 is

increased up to 41820 (JkgK) which is the value of the speci1047297c

heat at the concentration of 00 The results show that the average

Nusselt numbers increase with the speci1047297c heat as represented

with the symbol gt in Fig 19 It means that the speci1047297c heat can

play an important role in the heat transfer enhancement of the

nano1047298uid The pressure drop with respect to the dimensionless

inlet velocity is illustrated in Fig 20 The pressure drop at the

concentration of 100 is larger than that at the concentration of

00 because of the kinematic viscosity of the nano1047298uid

In the meantime the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient is

generally required when the temperature distribution is calculated

to design heat exchangers If the average Nusselt number is offered

Fig 11 Distributions of secondary 1047298ow and dimensionless temperature at cross section (AeA) of return bend

Re

V e l o c i t y r a t i o

s

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

010

012

014

016

018

020

022

024

026

Fig 12 Velocity ratios of secondary 1047298

ow to main 1047298

ow in return bend

Re

N u

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

Inlet pipe

Return bend

Outlet pipe

Entire pipes

Fig 13 Comparisons of average Nusselt numbers in various parts

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Nut frac14 18330 De02675 Pr 01900 ethentire pipesTHORN (19)

Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

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[24] A Akbarinia R Laur Investigating the diameter of solid particles effects ona laminar nano1047298uid 1047298ow in a curved tube using a two phase approachInternational Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 30 (2009) 706e714

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The effective physical properties of the nano1047298uid are obtained as

functions of nanoparticle volume concentration (f) [22]

reff frac14 eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs (12)

meff frac14

123f2 thorn 73f thorn 1m f (13)

C p

eff frac14

eth1 fTHORN

rc p

f thorn f

rc p

s

eth1 fTHORNr f thorn frs

(14)

keff frac14

0Bks thorn ethn 1THORNk f ethn 1THORNf

k f ks

ks thorn ethn 1THORNk f thorn f

k f ks

1CAk f (15)

The equation (13) of the effective viscosity was obtained by

performing a least-square curve 1047297tting of experimental data

available for the mixtures and presentedin the literature [15] Also

the equation (15) of the effective thermal conductivity was intro-

duced by Hamilton and Crosser [34] and was shown to be appro-

priate for the nano1047298uids in the literature [35] Here the

concentration of 0 means the pure water in which the nano-

particles are not included within The values of effective properties

used in this work are tabulated in Table 4

32 Results and discussions

The numerical analysis for the hydrodynamic and thermal 1047298ows

of nano1047298uid in the pipes with the return bend has been performed

with different concentrations and Reynolds numbers In total the

25 cases have been simulated in the conditions of the concentra-tions of 00 25 50 75 and 100 and the Reynolds numbers

of 10 25 50 75 and 100 respectively Forbetter understanding the

thermal and 1047298uid 1047298ows in the return bend the dimensionless

velocity and temperature distributions at the concentration of 0

are shown in Fig 7 and Fig 8 when the Reynolds numbers are 10

and 100 respectively The velocity pro1047297les at the Reynolds number

of 10 keep nearly parabolic shapes in the entire pipes However at

the Reynolds number of 100 the dimensionless velocity in the

outer region of the return bend appears higher than that in the

inner region This 1047298ow can affect the heat transfer characteristics in

the return bend and in the outlet pipe Also the heat transfer is

expected to be improved between the inside and the outside of the

pipe because the cold 1047298ow in the core of the inlet pipe shifts to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Fig 8The dimensionless velocity pro1047297les for the minus x-direction at

the cross section (AeA) are represented in Fig 9 The position of the

maximum velocity is moved towards the outer region of the return

bend as the Reynolds number increases The dimensionless

temperature at the wall of the return bend is higher than that at the

center as shown in Fig 10 because the heat 1047298ux is uniformly

supplied at the wall boundary However as the Reynolds number

increases the dimensionless temperature declines gradually in the

outer region of the return bend due to the cold 1047298ow from the inlet

pipe

The secondary 1047298ow occurs only in the return bend because of

the centrifugal force which acts in the vertical direction of the main

1047298ow as shown in Fig 11 In other words the two rotating 1047298ows at

the top and the bottomof the return bend occur due tothe different

centrifugal forces between in the inner region and in the outer

regions of the return bend Therefore the secondary 1047298ow can be

de1047297ned as the rotating 1047298ow in the circumferential direction It can

be seen in detail that the cold 1047298ow moves to the outer region with

the increase of the Reynolds number The dimensionless temper-

ature distribution at the Reynolds number of 10 is different from

Fig 5 Schematic representation for cross section of pipes with return bend

Fig 6 Boundary conditions for pipes with return bend

Table 3

Physical properties of water and Al2O3

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c heat

(JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Shape

factor (n)

Water 9980 10020E-03 41820 05984 e

Al2O3 39600 e 7530 460 3

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the distributions at the other Reynolds numbers More heat is

supplied into the outer region because the curved length in the

outer region is relatively longer than the length in the inner region

Thus the dimensionless temperature in the outer region at the

Reynolds number of 10 appears higher than that in the inner

region However at the otherReynolds numbers the dimensionless

temperature in the outer region is lower than that in the inner

region because the intensity of the secondary 1047298ow increased

gradually The velocity ratios of the secondary1047298owto the main1047298ow

rise with the increase of the Reynolds number as represented inFig 12

To investigate the role of the return bend the entire pipes are

divided into three parts the inlet pipe the return bend and the

outlet pipe The average Nusselt numbers at the concentration of 0

are obtained with the increase of the Reynolds number as shown in

Fig 13 Although the slopes appear different the average Nusselt

numbers rise in all parts because the inlet velocity increases with

increasing Reynolds number At the Reynolds numbers of 10 and

25 the average Nusselt numbers of the inlet pipe are relatively

higher than those of the return bend and the outlet pipe However

at the Reynolds numbers of 50 75 and 100 the average Nusselt

numbers of the return bend are larger than those of the inlet and

outlet pipes because the cold 1047298ow in the inlet pipe moves to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Figs 7 and 8 In otherwords the heat transfer in the return bend improves with the

increase of the Reynolds number due to the secondary 1047298ow On the

other hand the pressure drops are compared in each of three parts

as shown in Fig14 The pressure drops in the return bend are lower

than those in the inlet and outlet pipes because the pressure drop

depends mainly on the pipe length Here the length ratio of the

return bend to the straight pipe is about 047 The effect of the

secondary1047298ow is relatively small on the pressure loss The pressure

drops in the inlet pipe are higher than those in the outlet pipe It is

because the back pressure at the end of the inlet pipe is larger than

that at the end of the outlet pipe due to the return bend As a result

the return bend plays a major role in enhancing the heat transfer

without the large pressure loss

Fig15 shows the average Nusselt numbers at different Reynolds

numbers of 10 25 50 75 and 100 and concentrations of 00 25

50 75 and 100 respectively The average Nusselt numbers

increase with the rise of the Reynolds number and the concentra-

tion In general the heat transfer of the nano1047298uid is improved with

the augmentation of the concentration because the thermal

conductivity of the nano1047298uid grows with the concentration as

shown in Table 4 In addition the increment of the concentration is

accompanied by the rise of the inlet velocity at the same Reynolds

number as expressed in Table 5 Therefore these conditions cause

the increase of the average Nusselt number It is noted that the

results at the concentrations of 75 and 100 might not be correct

in reality because the stable nano1047298uid could not be found for suchhigh volume concentrations

For the entire pipes the increasing rates of the average Nusselt

number with the effect of the Reynolds number and the concen-

tration are illustrated in Fig16 These increments mean the ratios of

the average Nusselt numbers at the nano1047298uids to the average

Nusselt number at the pure water of the concentration of 00 Of

course the average Nusselt numbers continue to increase at the

entire pipes with increasing Reynolds number as shown in Fig 13

Also at the inlet pipe the increasing rates continue to be on the rise

with increasing Reynolds number as represented in Fig 17

However the slope of the average Nusselt numbers between the

Reynolds numbers of 25 and 50 is steeper than the slopes at the

other Reynolds numbers as shown in Fig 13 because the average

Nusselt number increases noticeably in the return bend at theReynolds number of 50 Although the average Nusselt numbers

have high values in the return bend at the Reynolds numbers of 75

and 100 they have relatively low values in the inlet and outlet

Table 4

Variations of effective physical properties with concentration

Concentration

()

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c

heat (JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Increasing

rates of

conductivity

()

00 9980 10020E-03 41820 059840 1000

25 10721 12619E-03 38653 064264 1074

50 11461 16758E-03 35896 068911 115275 12202 22439E-03 33473 073799 1233

100 12942 29659E-03 31328 078947 1319

Fig 7 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14

10

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pipes Therefore the increasing rate of the average Nusselt number

at the Reynolds of 50 is higher than the increasing rates at the other

Reynolds numbers Those rates decrease gradually at the Reynolds

numbers of 75 and 100 As a result it is noted that the increasing

rate of the average Nusselt number is affected by the return bend

On the other hand the highest increment approximately 112

appears at the Reynolds number of 50 and the concentration of

100 However this value does not reach up to the increasing rate

1152 for the thermal conductivity of the nano1047298uid as represented

in Table 4

The pressure drop between inlet and outlet of the pipe is

depicted in Fig 18 Here the dimensional pressure is used becausethe dimensionless pressure has the same value at the same Rey-

nolds number The pressure drop increases dramatically with the

increment of the Reynolds number The increasing rate of the

pressure drop at the concentration of 100 with respect to the

concentration of 00 appears nearly 6 times higher at all the

Reynolds numbers This value is considerably high in comparison

with the increasing rate of the heat transfer Consequently the high

pressure drop for the nano1047298uid should be given careful consider-

ation in designing heat exchangers although the nano1047298uid does not

have the characteristics such as poor suspension stability channel

clogging system abrasion and so on

In order to exclude the in1047298uence of the increasing inlet velocity

caused by the concentration the numerical analysis has been

conducted at the same volumetric 1047298ow rate in the pipe That is the

average Nusselt numbers are obtained in the condition of the samedimensionless inlet velocity at the concentrations of 00 and 100

as expressed in Fig 19 The results show that the average Nusselt

numbers at the concentration of 00 are higher than those at the

d

- u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

02

04

06

08

10

12

14

16

18

20

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 9 Dimensionless velocity pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

d

T

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 10 Dimensionless temperature pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

Fig 8 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14 100

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concentration of 100 This means that the increment of the inlet

velocity can improve the heat transfer in the pipe without using the

nano1047298uids Meanwhile the speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid decreases

with the increase of the concentration as shown in Table 4 For the

purpose of investigating the effect of the speci1047297c heat the addi-

tional numerical calculation is carried out with the increasing

speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid To achieve this the speci1047297c heat

31328 (JkgK) of the nano1047298uid at the concentration of 100 is

increased up to 41820 (JkgK) which is the value of the speci1047297c

heat at the concentration of 00 The results show that the average

Nusselt numbers increase with the speci1047297c heat as represented

with the symbol gt in Fig 19 It means that the speci1047297c heat can

play an important role in the heat transfer enhancement of the

nano1047298uid The pressure drop with respect to the dimensionless

inlet velocity is illustrated in Fig 20 The pressure drop at the

concentration of 100 is larger than that at the concentration of

00 because of the kinematic viscosity of the nano1047298uid

In the meantime the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient is

generally required when the temperature distribution is calculated

to design heat exchangers If the average Nusselt number is offered

Fig 11 Distributions of secondary 1047298ow and dimensionless temperature at cross section (AeA) of return bend

Re

V e l o c i t y r a t i o

s

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

010

012

014

016

018

020

022

024

026

Fig 12 Velocity ratios of secondary 1047298

ow to main 1047298

ow in return bend

Re

N u

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

Inlet pipe

Return bend

Outlet pipe

Entire pipes

Fig 13 Comparisons of average Nusselt numbers in various parts

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Nut frac14 18330 De02675 Pr 01900 ethentire pipesTHORN (19)

Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

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the distributions at the other Reynolds numbers More heat is

supplied into the outer region because the curved length in the

outer region is relatively longer than the length in the inner region

Thus the dimensionless temperature in the outer region at the

Reynolds number of 10 appears higher than that in the inner

region However at the otherReynolds numbers the dimensionless

temperature in the outer region is lower than that in the inner

region because the intensity of the secondary 1047298ow increased

gradually The velocity ratios of the secondary1047298owto the main1047298ow

rise with the increase of the Reynolds number as represented inFig 12

To investigate the role of the return bend the entire pipes are

divided into three parts the inlet pipe the return bend and the

outlet pipe The average Nusselt numbers at the concentration of 0

are obtained with the increase of the Reynolds number as shown in

Fig 13 Although the slopes appear different the average Nusselt

numbers rise in all parts because the inlet velocity increases with

increasing Reynolds number At the Reynolds numbers of 10 and

25 the average Nusselt numbers of the inlet pipe are relatively

higher than those of the return bend and the outlet pipe However

at the Reynolds numbers of 50 75 and 100 the average Nusselt

numbers of the return bend are larger than those of the inlet and

outlet pipes because the cold 1047298ow in the inlet pipe moves to the

outer region of the return bend as shown in Figs 7 and 8 In otherwords the heat transfer in the return bend improves with the

increase of the Reynolds number due to the secondary 1047298ow On the

other hand the pressure drops are compared in each of three parts

as shown in Fig14 The pressure drops in the return bend are lower

than those in the inlet and outlet pipes because the pressure drop

depends mainly on the pipe length Here the length ratio of the

return bend to the straight pipe is about 047 The effect of the

secondary1047298ow is relatively small on the pressure loss The pressure

drops in the inlet pipe are higher than those in the outlet pipe It is

because the back pressure at the end of the inlet pipe is larger than

that at the end of the outlet pipe due to the return bend As a result

the return bend plays a major role in enhancing the heat transfer

without the large pressure loss

Fig15 shows the average Nusselt numbers at different Reynolds

numbers of 10 25 50 75 and 100 and concentrations of 00 25

50 75 and 100 respectively The average Nusselt numbers

increase with the rise of the Reynolds number and the concentra-

tion In general the heat transfer of the nano1047298uid is improved with

the augmentation of the concentration because the thermal

conductivity of the nano1047298uid grows with the concentration as

shown in Table 4 In addition the increment of the concentration is

accompanied by the rise of the inlet velocity at the same Reynolds

number as expressed in Table 5 Therefore these conditions cause

the increase of the average Nusselt number It is noted that the

results at the concentrations of 75 and 100 might not be correct

in reality because the stable nano1047298uid could not be found for suchhigh volume concentrations

For the entire pipes the increasing rates of the average Nusselt

number with the effect of the Reynolds number and the concen-

tration are illustrated in Fig16 These increments mean the ratios of

the average Nusselt numbers at the nano1047298uids to the average

Nusselt number at the pure water of the concentration of 00 Of

course the average Nusselt numbers continue to increase at the

entire pipes with increasing Reynolds number as shown in Fig 13

Also at the inlet pipe the increasing rates continue to be on the rise

with increasing Reynolds number as represented in Fig 17

However the slope of the average Nusselt numbers between the

Reynolds numbers of 25 and 50 is steeper than the slopes at the

other Reynolds numbers as shown in Fig 13 because the average

Nusselt number increases noticeably in the return bend at theReynolds number of 50 Although the average Nusselt numbers

have high values in the return bend at the Reynolds numbers of 75

and 100 they have relatively low values in the inlet and outlet

Table 4

Variations of effective physical properties with concentration

Concentration

()

Density

(kgm3)

Viscosity

(Nsm2)

Speci1047297c

heat (JkgK)

Conductivity

(WmK)

Increasing

rates of

conductivity

()

00 9980 10020E-03 41820 059840 1000

25 10721 12619E-03 38653 064264 1074

50 11461 16758E-03 35896 068911 115275 12202 22439E-03 33473 073799 1233

100 12942 29659E-03 31328 078947 1319

Fig 7 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14

10

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pipes Therefore the increasing rate of the average Nusselt number

at the Reynolds of 50 is higher than the increasing rates at the other

Reynolds numbers Those rates decrease gradually at the Reynolds

numbers of 75 and 100 As a result it is noted that the increasing

rate of the average Nusselt number is affected by the return bend

On the other hand the highest increment approximately 112

appears at the Reynolds number of 50 and the concentration of

100 However this value does not reach up to the increasing rate

1152 for the thermal conductivity of the nano1047298uid as represented

in Table 4

The pressure drop between inlet and outlet of the pipe is

depicted in Fig 18 Here the dimensional pressure is used becausethe dimensionless pressure has the same value at the same Rey-

nolds number The pressure drop increases dramatically with the

increment of the Reynolds number The increasing rate of the

pressure drop at the concentration of 100 with respect to the

concentration of 00 appears nearly 6 times higher at all the

Reynolds numbers This value is considerably high in comparison

with the increasing rate of the heat transfer Consequently the high

pressure drop for the nano1047298uid should be given careful consider-

ation in designing heat exchangers although the nano1047298uid does not

have the characteristics such as poor suspension stability channel

clogging system abrasion and so on

In order to exclude the in1047298uence of the increasing inlet velocity

caused by the concentration the numerical analysis has been

conducted at the same volumetric 1047298ow rate in the pipe That is the

average Nusselt numbers are obtained in the condition of the samedimensionless inlet velocity at the concentrations of 00 and 100

as expressed in Fig 19 The results show that the average Nusselt

numbers at the concentration of 00 are higher than those at the

d

- u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

02

04

06

08

10

12

14

16

18

20

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 9 Dimensionless velocity pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

d

T

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 10 Dimensionless temperature pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

Fig 8 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14 100

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concentration of 100 This means that the increment of the inlet

velocity can improve the heat transfer in the pipe without using the

nano1047298uids Meanwhile the speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid decreases

with the increase of the concentration as shown in Table 4 For the

purpose of investigating the effect of the speci1047297c heat the addi-

tional numerical calculation is carried out with the increasing

speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid To achieve this the speci1047297c heat

31328 (JkgK) of the nano1047298uid at the concentration of 100 is

increased up to 41820 (JkgK) which is the value of the speci1047297c

heat at the concentration of 00 The results show that the average

Nusselt numbers increase with the speci1047297c heat as represented

with the symbol gt in Fig 19 It means that the speci1047297c heat can

play an important role in the heat transfer enhancement of the

nano1047298uid The pressure drop with respect to the dimensionless

inlet velocity is illustrated in Fig 20 The pressure drop at the

concentration of 100 is larger than that at the concentration of

00 because of the kinematic viscosity of the nano1047298uid

In the meantime the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient is

generally required when the temperature distribution is calculated

to design heat exchangers If the average Nusselt number is offered

Fig 11 Distributions of secondary 1047298ow and dimensionless temperature at cross section (AeA) of return bend

Re

V e l o c i t y r a t i o

s

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

010

012

014

016

018

020

022

024

026

Fig 12 Velocity ratios of secondary 1047298

ow to main 1047298

ow in return bend

Re

N u

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

Inlet pipe

Return bend

Outlet pipe

Entire pipes

Fig 13 Comparisons of average Nusselt numbers in various parts

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Nut frac14 18330 De02675 Pr 01900 ethentire pipesTHORN (19)

Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

References

[1] A Bejan S Lorente Thermodynamic optimization of 1047298ow geometry inmechanical and civil engineering Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermody-namics 26 (2001) 305e354

[2] Z Li SC Mantell JH Davidson Mechanical analysis of streamlined tubes withnon-uniform wall thickness for heat exchangers The Journal of Strain Analysisfor Engineering Design 40 (3) (2005) 275e285

[3] H Naja1047297 B Naja1047297 Multi-objective optimization of a plate and frame heatexchanger via genetic algorithm Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 639e647

[4] S Lee SUS Choi Application of Metallic Nanoparticle Suspensions inAdvanced Cooling Systems Proceedings of International Mechanical Engi-neering Congress and Exhibition Atlanta Georgia USA 1996

[5] CW Sohn MM Chen Microconvective thermal conductivity in disperse two-phase mixtures as observed in a low velocity Couette 1047298ow experiment Journalof Heat Transfer 103 (1981) 47e51

[6] MC Roco CA Shook Modeling of slurry 1047298ow the effect of particle size TheCanadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 61 (4) (1983) 494e503

[7] K V Liu U S Choi K E Kasza Measurements of pressure drop and heattransfer in turbulent pipe 1047298ows of particulate slurries Argonne NationalLaboratory Report ANL-88e15 1988

[8] SUS Choi ZG Zhang W Yu FE Lockwood EA Grulke Anomalouslythermal conductivity enhancement in nanotube suspensions Applied PhysicsLetters 79 (14) (2001) 2252e2254

[9] XQ Wang AS Mujumdar Heat transfer characteristics of nano1047298uidsa review International Journal of Thermal Sciences 46 (2007) 1e9

[10] VI Terekhov SV Kalinina VV Lemanov The mechanism of heat transfer innano1047298uids state of the art(review) Part 1 Synthesis and properties of

nano1047298uids Thermophysics and Aeromechanics 17 (1) (2010) 1e

13[11] W Yu DM France JL Routbort SUS Choi Review and comparison of

nano1047298uid thermal conductivity and heat transfer enhancements HeatTransfer Engineering 29 (5) (2008) 432e460

[12] BC Pak YI Cho Hydrodynamic and heat transfer study of dispersed 1047298uidswith submicron metallic oxide particles Experimental Heat Transfer 11 (2)(1998) 151e170

[13] Y Xuan Q Li Investigation on convective heat transfer and 1047298ow features of nano1047298uids Journal of Heat Transfer 125 (2003) 151e155

[14] D Wen Y Ding Experimental investigation into convective heat transfer of nano1047298uids at the entrance region under laminar 1047298ow conditions Interna-tional Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 47 (2004) 5181e5188

[15] SEB Maiumlga CT Nguyen N Galanis G Roy Heat transfer behaviours of nano1047298uids in a uniformly heated tube Superlattices and Microstructures 35(2004) 543e557

[16] SEB Maiumlga SJ Palm CT Nguyen G Roy N Galanis Heat transferenhancement by using nano1047298uids in forced convection 1047298ows International

Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 26 (2005) 530e546[17] Y Ding H Alias D Wen RA Williams Heat transfer of aqueous suspensions

of carbon nanotubes(CNT nano1047298uids) International Journal of Heat and MassTransfer 49 (2006) 240e250

[18] BH Chun HU Kang SH Kim Effect of alumina nanoparticles in the 1047298uid onheat transfer in double-pipe heat exchanger system Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 25 (5) (2008) 966e971

[19] Y He Y Men X Liu H Lu H Chen Y Ding Study on forced convective heattransfer of non-newtonian nano1047298uids Journal of Thermal Science 18 (1)(2009) 20e26

[20] AD Sommers KL Yerkes Experimental investigation into the convectiveheat transfer and system-level effects of Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid Journal of Nanoparticle Research 12 (2010) 1003e1014

[21] K Alammar L Hu Laminar 1047298ow and heat transfer characteristics of nano-particle colloidal dispersions in water Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 541e546

[22] A Akbarinia A Behzadmehr Numerical study of laminar mixed convection of a nano1047298uid in horizontal curved tubes Applied Thermal Engineering 27(2007) 1327e1337

[23] A Akbarinia Impacts of nano1047298uid 1047298ow on skin friction factor and Nusseltnumber in curved tubes with constant mass 1047298ow International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 29 (2008) 229e241

[24] A Akbarinia R Laur Investigating the diameter of solid particles effects ona laminar nano1047298uid 1047298ow in a curved tube using a two phase approachInternational Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 30 (2009) 706e714

[25] Y Xuan Q Li Heat transfer enhancement of nano1047298uids International Journalof Heat and Fluid Flow 21 (2000) 58e64

[26] JE Akin Finite Elements for Analysis and Design Academic Press San DiegoUSA 1994

[27] B Ramaswamy Finite element solution for advection and natural convection1047298ows Computers amp Fluids 16 (4) (1988) 349e388

[28] B Ramaswamy Ef 1047297cient 1047297nite element method f or two-dimensional 1047298uid1047298ow and heat transfer problems Numerical Heat Transfer Part B 17 (1990)123e154

[29] B Ramaswamy TC Jue JE Akin Semi-implicit and explicit 1047297nite elementschemes for coupled 1047298uidthermal problems International Journal forNumerical Methods in Engineering 34 (1992) 675e696

[30] KS Cha JW Choi CG Park Finite element analysis of 1047298uid 1047298ows withmoving boundary Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology 16 (5)(2002) 683e695

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[31] P Oosthuizen D Naylor Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer AnalysisWCBMcGraw-Hill New York USA 1999

[32] ANSYS CFX Userrsquos Guide(ANSYS CFX Release 121) ANSYS Inc PA USA 2009[33] KA Hoffmann ST Chiang Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers Vol

I Engineering Education System Austin Texas USA 1993

[34] RL Hamilton OK Crosser Thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two-component system IampEC Fundamentals 1 (1962) 187e191

[35] Y Xuan W Roetzel Conceptions for heat transfer correlations of nano-1047298uids International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 43 (19) (2000)3701e3707

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pipes Therefore the increasing rate of the average Nusselt number

at the Reynolds of 50 is higher than the increasing rates at the other

Reynolds numbers Those rates decrease gradually at the Reynolds

numbers of 75 and 100 As a result it is noted that the increasing

rate of the average Nusselt number is affected by the return bend

On the other hand the highest increment approximately 112

appears at the Reynolds number of 50 and the concentration of

100 However this value does not reach up to the increasing rate

1152 for the thermal conductivity of the nano1047298uid as represented

in Table 4

The pressure drop between inlet and outlet of the pipe is

depicted in Fig 18 Here the dimensional pressure is used becausethe dimensionless pressure has the same value at the same Rey-

nolds number The pressure drop increases dramatically with the

increment of the Reynolds number The increasing rate of the

pressure drop at the concentration of 100 with respect to the

concentration of 00 appears nearly 6 times higher at all the

Reynolds numbers This value is considerably high in comparison

with the increasing rate of the heat transfer Consequently the high

pressure drop for the nano1047298uid should be given careful consider-

ation in designing heat exchangers although the nano1047298uid does not

have the characteristics such as poor suspension stability channel

clogging system abrasion and so on

In order to exclude the in1047298uence of the increasing inlet velocity

caused by the concentration the numerical analysis has been

conducted at the same volumetric 1047298ow rate in the pipe That is the

average Nusselt numbers are obtained in the condition of the samedimensionless inlet velocity at the concentrations of 00 and 100

as expressed in Fig 19 The results show that the average Nusselt

numbers at the concentration of 00 are higher than those at the

d

- u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

02

04

06

08

10

12

14

16

18

20

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 9 Dimensionless velocity pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

d

T

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Re=10

Re=25

Re=50

Re=75

Re=100

Fig 10 Dimensionless temperature pro1047297

les at various Reynolds numbers

Fig 8 Distributions of dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature at Re frac14 100

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concentration of 100 This means that the increment of the inlet

velocity can improve the heat transfer in the pipe without using the

nano1047298uids Meanwhile the speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid decreases

with the increase of the concentration as shown in Table 4 For the

purpose of investigating the effect of the speci1047297c heat the addi-

tional numerical calculation is carried out with the increasing

speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid To achieve this the speci1047297c heat

31328 (JkgK) of the nano1047298uid at the concentration of 100 is

increased up to 41820 (JkgK) which is the value of the speci1047297c

heat at the concentration of 00 The results show that the average

Nusselt numbers increase with the speci1047297c heat as represented

with the symbol gt in Fig 19 It means that the speci1047297c heat can

play an important role in the heat transfer enhancement of the

nano1047298uid The pressure drop with respect to the dimensionless

inlet velocity is illustrated in Fig 20 The pressure drop at the

concentration of 100 is larger than that at the concentration of

00 because of the kinematic viscosity of the nano1047298uid

In the meantime the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient is

generally required when the temperature distribution is calculated

to design heat exchangers If the average Nusselt number is offered

Fig 11 Distributions of secondary 1047298ow and dimensionless temperature at cross section (AeA) of return bend

Re

V e l o c i t y r a t i o

s

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

010

012

014

016

018

020

022

024

026

Fig 12 Velocity ratios of secondary 1047298

ow to main 1047298

ow in return bend

Re

N u

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

Inlet pipe

Return bend

Outlet pipe

Entire pipes

Fig 13 Comparisons of average Nusselt numbers in various parts

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Nut frac14 18330 De02675 Pr 01900 ethentire pipesTHORN (19)

Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

References

[1] A Bejan S Lorente Thermodynamic optimization of 1047298ow geometry inmechanical and civil engineering Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermody-namics 26 (2001) 305e354

[2] Z Li SC Mantell JH Davidson Mechanical analysis of streamlined tubes withnon-uniform wall thickness for heat exchangers The Journal of Strain Analysisfor Engineering Design 40 (3) (2005) 275e285

[3] H Naja1047297 B Naja1047297 Multi-objective optimization of a plate and frame heatexchanger via genetic algorithm Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 639e647

[4] S Lee SUS Choi Application of Metallic Nanoparticle Suspensions inAdvanced Cooling Systems Proceedings of International Mechanical Engi-neering Congress and Exhibition Atlanta Georgia USA 1996

[5] CW Sohn MM Chen Microconvective thermal conductivity in disperse two-phase mixtures as observed in a low velocity Couette 1047298ow experiment Journalof Heat Transfer 103 (1981) 47e51

[6] MC Roco CA Shook Modeling of slurry 1047298ow the effect of particle size TheCanadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 61 (4) (1983) 494e503

[7] K V Liu U S Choi K E Kasza Measurements of pressure drop and heattransfer in turbulent pipe 1047298ows of particulate slurries Argonne NationalLaboratory Report ANL-88e15 1988

[8] SUS Choi ZG Zhang W Yu FE Lockwood EA Grulke Anomalouslythermal conductivity enhancement in nanotube suspensions Applied PhysicsLetters 79 (14) (2001) 2252e2254

[9] XQ Wang AS Mujumdar Heat transfer characteristics of nano1047298uidsa review International Journal of Thermal Sciences 46 (2007) 1e9

[10] VI Terekhov SV Kalinina VV Lemanov The mechanism of heat transfer innano1047298uids state of the art(review) Part 1 Synthesis and properties of

nano1047298uids Thermophysics and Aeromechanics 17 (1) (2010) 1e

13[11] W Yu DM France JL Routbort SUS Choi Review and comparison of

nano1047298uid thermal conductivity and heat transfer enhancements HeatTransfer Engineering 29 (5) (2008) 432e460

[12] BC Pak YI Cho Hydrodynamic and heat transfer study of dispersed 1047298uidswith submicron metallic oxide particles Experimental Heat Transfer 11 (2)(1998) 151e170

[13] Y Xuan Q Li Investigation on convective heat transfer and 1047298ow features of nano1047298uids Journal of Heat Transfer 125 (2003) 151e155

[14] D Wen Y Ding Experimental investigation into convective heat transfer of nano1047298uids at the entrance region under laminar 1047298ow conditions Interna-tional Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 47 (2004) 5181e5188

[15] SEB Maiumlga CT Nguyen N Galanis G Roy Heat transfer behaviours of nano1047298uids in a uniformly heated tube Superlattices and Microstructures 35(2004) 543e557

[16] SEB Maiumlga SJ Palm CT Nguyen G Roy N Galanis Heat transferenhancement by using nano1047298uids in forced convection 1047298ows International

Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 26 (2005) 530e546[17] Y Ding H Alias D Wen RA Williams Heat transfer of aqueous suspensions

of carbon nanotubes(CNT nano1047298uids) International Journal of Heat and MassTransfer 49 (2006) 240e250

[18] BH Chun HU Kang SH Kim Effect of alumina nanoparticles in the 1047298uid onheat transfer in double-pipe heat exchanger system Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 25 (5) (2008) 966e971

[19] Y He Y Men X Liu H Lu H Chen Y Ding Study on forced convective heattransfer of non-newtonian nano1047298uids Journal of Thermal Science 18 (1)(2009) 20e26

[20] AD Sommers KL Yerkes Experimental investigation into the convectiveheat transfer and system-level effects of Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid Journal of Nanoparticle Research 12 (2010) 1003e1014

[21] K Alammar L Hu Laminar 1047298ow and heat transfer characteristics of nano-particle colloidal dispersions in water Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 541e546

[22] A Akbarinia A Behzadmehr Numerical study of laminar mixed convection of a nano1047298uid in horizontal curved tubes Applied Thermal Engineering 27(2007) 1327e1337

[23] A Akbarinia Impacts of nano1047298uid 1047298ow on skin friction factor and Nusseltnumber in curved tubes with constant mass 1047298ow International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 29 (2008) 229e241

[24] A Akbarinia R Laur Investigating the diameter of solid particles effects ona laminar nano1047298uid 1047298ow in a curved tube using a two phase approachInternational Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 30 (2009) 706e714

[25] Y Xuan Q Li Heat transfer enhancement of nano1047298uids International Journalof Heat and Fluid Flow 21 (2000) 58e64

[26] JE Akin Finite Elements for Analysis and Design Academic Press San DiegoUSA 1994

[27] B Ramaswamy Finite element solution for advection and natural convection1047298ows Computers amp Fluids 16 (4) (1988) 349e388

[28] B Ramaswamy Ef 1047297cient 1047297nite element method f or two-dimensional 1047298uid1047298ow and heat transfer problems Numerical Heat Transfer Part B 17 (1990)123e154

[29] B Ramaswamy TC Jue JE Akin Semi-implicit and explicit 1047297nite elementschemes for coupled 1047298uidthermal problems International Journal forNumerical Methods in Engineering 34 (1992) 675e696

[30] KS Cha JW Choi CG Park Finite element analysis of 1047298uid 1047298ows withmoving boundary Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology 16 (5)(2002) 683e695

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[31] P Oosthuizen D Naylor Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer AnalysisWCBMcGraw-Hill New York USA 1999

[32] ANSYS CFX Userrsquos Guide(ANSYS CFX Release 121) ANSYS Inc PA USA 2009[33] KA Hoffmann ST Chiang Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers Vol

I Engineering Education System Austin Texas USA 1993

[34] RL Hamilton OK Crosser Thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two-component system IampEC Fundamentals 1 (1962) 187e191

[35] Y Xuan W Roetzel Conceptions for heat transfer correlations of nano-1047298uids International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 43 (19) (2000)3701e3707

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concentration of 100 This means that the increment of the inlet

velocity can improve the heat transfer in the pipe without using the

nano1047298uids Meanwhile the speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid decreases

with the increase of the concentration as shown in Table 4 For the

purpose of investigating the effect of the speci1047297c heat the addi-

tional numerical calculation is carried out with the increasing

speci1047297c heat of the nano1047298uid To achieve this the speci1047297c heat

31328 (JkgK) of the nano1047298uid at the concentration of 100 is

increased up to 41820 (JkgK) which is the value of the speci1047297c

heat at the concentration of 00 The results show that the average

Nusselt numbers increase with the speci1047297c heat as represented

with the symbol gt in Fig 19 It means that the speci1047297c heat can

play an important role in the heat transfer enhancement of the

nano1047298uid The pressure drop with respect to the dimensionless

inlet velocity is illustrated in Fig 20 The pressure drop at the

concentration of 100 is larger than that at the concentration of

00 because of the kinematic viscosity of the nano1047298uid

In the meantime the convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient is

generally required when the temperature distribution is calculated

to design heat exchangers If the average Nusselt number is offered

Fig 11 Distributions of secondary 1047298ow and dimensionless temperature at cross section (AeA) of return bend

Re

V e l o c i t y r a t i o

s

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

010

012

014

016

018

020

022

024

026

Fig 12 Velocity ratios of secondary 1047298

ow to main 1047298

ow in return bend

Re

N u

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

Inlet pipe

Return bend

Outlet pipe

Entire pipes

Fig 13 Comparisons of average Nusselt numbers in various parts

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Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

References

[1] A Bejan S Lorente Thermodynamic optimization of 1047298ow geometry inmechanical and civil engineering Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermody-namics 26 (2001) 305e354

[2] Z Li SC Mantell JH Davidson Mechanical analysis of streamlined tubes withnon-uniform wall thickness for heat exchangers The Journal of Strain Analysisfor Engineering Design 40 (3) (2005) 275e285

[3] H Naja1047297 B Naja1047297 Multi-objective optimization of a plate and frame heatexchanger via genetic algorithm Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 639e647

[4] S Lee SUS Choi Application of Metallic Nanoparticle Suspensions inAdvanced Cooling Systems Proceedings of International Mechanical Engi-neering Congress and Exhibition Atlanta Georgia USA 1996

[5] CW Sohn MM Chen Microconvective thermal conductivity in disperse two-phase mixtures as observed in a low velocity Couette 1047298ow experiment Journalof Heat Transfer 103 (1981) 47e51

[6] MC Roco CA Shook Modeling of slurry 1047298ow the effect of particle size TheCanadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 61 (4) (1983) 494e503

[7] K V Liu U S Choi K E Kasza Measurements of pressure drop and heattransfer in turbulent pipe 1047298ows of particulate slurries Argonne NationalLaboratory Report ANL-88e15 1988

[8] SUS Choi ZG Zhang W Yu FE Lockwood EA Grulke Anomalouslythermal conductivity enhancement in nanotube suspensions Applied PhysicsLetters 79 (14) (2001) 2252e2254

[9] XQ Wang AS Mujumdar Heat transfer characteristics of nano1047298uidsa review International Journal of Thermal Sciences 46 (2007) 1e9

[10] VI Terekhov SV Kalinina VV Lemanov The mechanism of heat transfer innano1047298uids state of the art(review) Part 1 Synthesis and properties of

nano1047298uids Thermophysics and Aeromechanics 17 (1) (2010) 1e

13[11] W Yu DM France JL Routbort SUS Choi Review and comparison of

nano1047298uid thermal conductivity and heat transfer enhancements HeatTransfer Engineering 29 (5) (2008) 432e460

[12] BC Pak YI Cho Hydrodynamic and heat transfer study of dispersed 1047298uidswith submicron metallic oxide particles Experimental Heat Transfer 11 (2)(1998) 151e170

[13] Y Xuan Q Li Investigation on convective heat transfer and 1047298ow features of nano1047298uids Journal of Heat Transfer 125 (2003) 151e155

[14] D Wen Y Ding Experimental investigation into convective heat transfer of nano1047298uids at the entrance region under laminar 1047298ow conditions Interna-tional Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 47 (2004) 5181e5188

[15] SEB Maiumlga CT Nguyen N Galanis G Roy Heat transfer behaviours of nano1047298uids in a uniformly heated tube Superlattices and Microstructures 35(2004) 543e557

[16] SEB Maiumlga SJ Palm CT Nguyen G Roy N Galanis Heat transferenhancement by using nano1047298uids in forced convection 1047298ows International

Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 26 (2005) 530e546[17] Y Ding H Alias D Wen RA Williams Heat transfer of aqueous suspensions

of carbon nanotubes(CNT nano1047298uids) International Journal of Heat and MassTransfer 49 (2006) 240e250

[18] BH Chun HU Kang SH Kim Effect of alumina nanoparticles in the 1047298uid onheat transfer in double-pipe heat exchanger system Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 25 (5) (2008) 966e971

[19] Y He Y Men X Liu H Lu H Chen Y Ding Study on forced convective heattransfer of non-newtonian nano1047298uids Journal of Thermal Science 18 (1)(2009) 20e26

[20] AD Sommers KL Yerkes Experimental investigation into the convectiveheat transfer and system-level effects of Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid Journal of Nanoparticle Research 12 (2010) 1003e1014

[21] K Alammar L Hu Laminar 1047298ow and heat transfer characteristics of nano-particle colloidal dispersions in water Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 541e546

[22] A Akbarinia A Behzadmehr Numerical study of laminar mixed convection of a nano1047298uid in horizontal curved tubes Applied Thermal Engineering 27(2007) 1327e1337

[23] A Akbarinia Impacts of nano1047298uid 1047298ow on skin friction factor and Nusseltnumber in curved tubes with constant mass 1047298ow International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 29 (2008) 229e241

[24] A Akbarinia R Laur Investigating the diameter of solid particles effects ona laminar nano1047298uid 1047298ow in a curved tube using a two phase approachInternational Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 30 (2009) 706e714

[25] Y Xuan Q Li Heat transfer enhancement of nano1047298uids International Journalof Heat and Fluid Flow 21 (2000) 58e64

[26] JE Akin Finite Elements for Analysis and Design Academic Press San DiegoUSA 1994

[27] B Ramaswamy Finite element solution for advection and natural convection1047298ows Computers amp Fluids 16 (4) (1988) 349e388

[28] B Ramaswamy Ef 1047297cient 1047297nite element method f or two-dimensional 1047298uid1047298ow and heat transfer problems Numerical Heat Transfer Part B 17 (1990)123e154

[29] B Ramaswamy TC Jue JE Akin Semi-implicit and explicit 1047297nite elementschemes for coupled 1047298uidthermal problems International Journal forNumerical Methods in Engineering 34 (1992) 675e696

[30] KS Cha JW Choi CG Park Finite element analysis of 1047298uid 1047298ows withmoving boundary Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology 16 (5)(2002) 683e695

J Choi Y Zhang International Journal of Thermal Sciences 55 (2012) 90e102 101

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[31] P Oosthuizen D Naylor Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer AnalysisWCBMcGraw-Hill New York USA 1999

[32] ANSYS CFX Userrsquos Guide(ANSYS CFX Release 121) ANSYS Inc PA USA 2009[33] KA Hoffmann ST Chiang Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers Vol

I Engineering Education System Austin Texas USA 1993

[34] RL Hamilton OK Crosser Thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two-component system IampEC Fundamentals 1 (1962) 187e191

[35] Y Xuan W Roetzel Conceptions for heat transfer correlations of nano-1047298uids International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 43 (19) (2000)3701e3707

J Choi Y Zhang International Journal of Thermal Sciences 55 (2012) 90e102102

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Nut frac14 18330 De02675 Pr 01900 ethentire pipesTHORN (19)

Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

References

[1] A Bejan S Lorente Thermodynamic optimization of 1047298ow geometry inmechanical and civil engineering Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermody-namics 26 (2001) 305e354

[2] Z Li SC Mantell JH Davidson Mechanical analysis of streamlined tubes withnon-uniform wall thickness for heat exchangers The Journal of Strain Analysisfor Engineering Design 40 (3) (2005) 275e285

[3] H Naja1047297 B Naja1047297 Multi-objective optimization of a plate and frame heatexchanger via genetic algorithm Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 639e647

[4] S Lee SUS Choi Application of Metallic Nanoparticle Suspensions inAdvanced Cooling Systems Proceedings of International Mechanical Engi-neering Congress and Exhibition Atlanta Georgia USA 1996

[5] CW Sohn MM Chen Microconvective thermal conductivity in disperse two-phase mixtures as observed in a low velocity Couette 1047298ow experiment Journalof Heat Transfer 103 (1981) 47e51

[6] MC Roco CA Shook Modeling of slurry 1047298ow the effect of particle size TheCanadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 61 (4) (1983) 494e503

[7] K V Liu U S Choi K E Kasza Measurements of pressure drop and heattransfer in turbulent pipe 1047298ows of particulate slurries Argonne NationalLaboratory Report ANL-88e15 1988

[8] SUS Choi ZG Zhang W Yu FE Lockwood EA Grulke Anomalouslythermal conductivity enhancement in nanotube suspensions Applied PhysicsLetters 79 (14) (2001) 2252e2254

[9] XQ Wang AS Mujumdar Heat transfer characteristics of nano1047298uidsa review International Journal of Thermal Sciences 46 (2007) 1e9

[10] VI Terekhov SV Kalinina VV Lemanov The mechanism of heat transfer innano1047298uids state of the art(review) Part 1 Synthesis and properties of

nano1047298uids Thermophysics and Aeromechanics 17 (1) (2010) 1e

13[11] W Yu DM France JL Routbort SUS Choi Review and comparison of

nano1047298uid thermal conductivity and heat transfer enhancements HeatTransfer Engineering 29 (5) (2008) 432e460

[12] BC Pak YI Cho Hydrodynamic and heat transfer study of dispersed 1047298uidswith submicron metallic oxide particles Experimental Heat Transfer 11 (2)(1998) 151e170

[13] Y Xuan Q Li Investigation on convective heat transfer and 1047298ow features of nano1047298uids Journal of Heat Transfer 125 (2003) 151e155

[14] D Wen Y Ding Experimental investigation into convective heat transfer of nano1047298uids at the entrance region under laminar 1047298ow conditions Interna-tional Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 47 (2004) 5181e5188

[15] SEB Maiumlga CT Nguyen N Galanis G Roy Heat transfer behaviours of nano1047298uids in a uniformly heated tube Superlattices and Microstructures 35(2004) 543e557

[16] SEB Maiumlga SJ Palm CT Nguyen G Roy N Galanis Heat transferenhancement by using nano1047298uids in forced convection 1047298ows International

Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 26 (2005) 530e546[17] Y Ding H Alias D Wen RA Williams Heat transfer of aqueous suspensions

of carbon nanotubes(CNT nano1047298uids) International Journal of Heat and MassTransfer 49 (2006) 240e250

[18] BH Chun HU Kang SH Kim Effect of alumina nanoparticles in the 1047298uid onheat transfer in double-pipe heat exchanger system Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 25 (5) (2008) 966e971

[19] Y He Y Men X Liu H Lu H Chen Y Ding Study on forced convective heattransfer of non-newtonian nano1047298uids Journal of Thermal Science 18 (1)(2009) 20e26

[20] AD Sommers KL Yerkes Experimental investigation into the convectiveheat transfer and system-level effects of Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid Journal of Nanoparticle Research 12 (2010) 1003e1014

[21] K Alammar L Hu Laminar 1047298ow and heat transfer characteristics of nano-particle colloidal dispersions in water Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 541e546

[22] A Akbarinia A Behzadmehr Numerical study of laminar mixed convection of a nano1047298uid in horizontal curved tubes Applied Thermal Engineering 27(2007) 1327e1337

[23] A Akbarinia Impacts of nano1047298uid 1047298ow on skin friction factor and Nusseltnumber in curved tubes with constant mass 1047298ow International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 29 (2008) 229e241

[24] A Akbarinia R Laur Investigating the diameter of solid particles effects ona laminar nano1047298uid 1047298ow in a curved tube using a two phase approachInternational Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 30 (2009) 706e714

[25] Y Xuan Q Li Heat transfer enhancement of nano1047298uids International Journalof Heat and Fluid Flow 21 (2000) 58e64

[26] JE Akin Finite Elements for Analysis and Design Academic Press San DiegoUSA 1994

[27] B Ramaswamy Finite element solution for advection and natural convection1047298ows Computers amp Fluids 16 (4) (1988) 349e388

[28] B Ramaswamy Ef 1047297cient 1047297nite element method f or two-dimensional 1047298uid1047298ow and heat transfer problems Numerical Heat Transfer Part B 17 (1990)123e154

[29] B Ramaswamy TC Jue JE Akin Semi-implicit and explicit 1047297nite elementschemes for coupled 1047298uidthermal problems International Journal forNumerical Methods in Engineering 34 (1992) 675e696

[30] KS Cha JW Choi CG Park Finite element analysis of 1047298uid 1047298ows withmoving boundary Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology 16 (5)(2002) 683e695

J Choi Y Zhang International Journal of Thermal Sciences 55 (2012) 90e102 101

7172019 jurnal

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[31] P Oosthuizen D Naylor Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer AnalysisWCBMcGraw-Hill New York USA 1999

[32] ANSYS CFX Userrsquos Guide(ANSYS CFX Release 121) ANSYS Inc PA USA 2009[33] KA Hoffmann ST Chiang Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers Vol

I Engineering Education System Austin Texas USA 1993

[34] RL Hamilton OK Crosser Thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two-component system IampEC Fundamentals 1 (1962) 187e191

[35] Y Xuan W Roetzel Conceptions for heat transfer correlations of nano-1047298uids International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 43 (19) (2000)3701e3707

J Choi Y Zhang International Journal of Thermal Sciences 55 (2012) 90e102102

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Nut frac14 18330 De02675 Pr 01900 ethentire pipesTHORN (19)

Here the distinctions by concentrations are not necessary in the

above functions because the Nusselt number the Dean number

and the Prandtl number are decided by the concentration of the

nano1047298uid with the effective physical properties regardless of the

nano1047298uid The adjusted R squares at the con1047297dence level of 95 in

equations (16)e(19) which mean the coef 1047297cients of determination

are 0981 0952 0960 and 0968 respectively The standard

deviations are 0136 0509 0273 and 0246 These equations are

effective in the range of the Dean numbers of 6e

58 and the Prandtlnumbers of 7e12

4 Conclusions

The hydrodynamic and thermal analyses have been performed

on the Al2O3ewater nano1047298uid in the pipes with return bend The

results show that the average Nusselt numbers increase with

increasing Reynolds number and the nanoparticle volume

concentration Especially the heat transfer enhancement in the

return bend appears larger than that in the inlet and outlet pipes

due to the effect of the secondary 1047298ow However the concentration

increment of the nano1047298uid is accompanied by the high pressure

drop in the pipe Also the increasing rate of the average Nusselt

number is less than that of the thermal conductivity of the nano-

1047298uid with the augmentation of the concentrationUnder the same volumetric 1047298ow rate the average Nusselt

numbers of the pure water are greater than those of the nano1047298uid

with the concentration of 10 Also the increasing rate of the

pressure drop in the nano1047298uid appears larger than the rate in the

pure water Meanwhile the heat transfer characteristics of the

nano1047298uid are improved with the increase of the speci1047297c heat

The empirical correlation equations for the average Nusselt

number are obtained as functions of the Dean number and the

Prandtl number in the inlet pipe the return bend the outlet pipe

and the entire pipes respectively These equations will be expected

to be useful in the temperature analysis for designing heat

exchangers In the future study the hydrodynamic and thermal

analyses will be conducted with the consideration of the various

parameters of the nano1047298

uid and also the nanoparticles will besimulated from the viewpoint of the molecular dynamics without

using the effective physical properties

Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Research Foundation of

Engineering College Sunchon National University

Nomenclature

C p speci1047297c heat J(kgK)

d dimensionless diameter of pipe

d diameter of pipe m

De Dean number (frac14Re(d2R)

12

)

Re

P r e s s u r e d r o p ( P a )

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

25

50

75

100

Fig 18 Dependence of pressure drop on concentration at various Reynolds numbers

Dimensionless inlet velocity

N u

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

120

00(Cp=41820)

100(Cp=31328)100(Cp=41820)

Fig 19 Dependence of average Nusselt number on concentration and speci1047297c heat at

various dimensionless inlet velocities

Dimensionless inlet velocity

P r e s s u r e d r o p (

P a )

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

00

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

00

100

Fig 20 Comparison of pressure drops at concentrations of 00 and 100

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

References

[1] A Bejan S Lorente Thermodynamic optimization of 1047298ow geometry inmechanical and civil engineering Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermody-namics 26 (2001) 305e354

[2] Z Li SC Mantell JH Davidson Mechanical analysis of streamlined tubes withnon-uniform wall thickness for heat exchangers The Journal of Strain Analysisfor Engineering Design 40 (3) (2005) 275e285

[3] H Naja1047297 B Naja1047297 Multi-objective optimization of a plate and frame heatexchanger via genetic algorithm Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 639e647

[4] S Lee SUS Choi Application of Metallic Nanoparticle Suspensions inAdvanced Cooling Systems Proceedings of International Mechanical Engi-neering Congress and Exhibition Atlanta Georgia USA 1996

[5] CW Sohn MM Chen Microconvective thermal conductivity in disperse two-phase mixtures as observed in a low velocity Couette 1047298ow experiment Journalof Heat Transfer 103 (1981) 47e51

[6] MC Roco CA Shook Modeling of slurry 1047298ow the effect of particle size TheCanadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 61 (4) (1983) 494e503

[7] K V Liu U S Choi K E Kasza Measurements of pressure drop and heattransfer in turbulent pipe 1047298ows of particulate slurries Argonne NationalLaboratory Report ANL-88e15 1988

[8] SUS Choi ZG Zhang W Yu FE Lockwood EA Grulke Anomalouslythermal conductivity enhancement in nanotube suspensions Applied PhysicsLetters 79 (14) (2001) 2252e2254

[9] XQ Wang AS Mujumdar Heat transfer characteristics of nano1047298uidsa review International Journal of Thermal Sciences 46 (2007) 1e9

[10] VI Terekhov SV Kalinina VV Lemanov The mechanism of heat transfer innano1047298uids state of the art(review) Part 1 Synthesis and properties of

nano1047298uids Thermophysics and Aeromechanics 17 (1) (2010) 1e

13[11] W Yu DM France JL Routbort SUS Choi Review and comparison of

nano1047298uid thermal conductivity and heat transfer enhancements HeatTransfer Engineering 29 (5) (2008) 432e460

[12] BC Pak YI Cho Hydrodynamic and heat transfer study of dispersed 1047298uidswith submicron metallic oxide particles Experimental Heat Transfer 11 (2)(1998) 151e170

[13] Y Xuan Q Li Investigation on convective heat transfer and 1047298ow features of nano1047298uids Journal of Heat Transfer 125 (2003) 151e155

[14] D Wen Y Ding Experimental investigation into convective heat transfer of nano1047298uids at the entrance region under laminar 1047298ow conditions Interna-tional Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 47 (2004) 5181e5188

[15] SEB Maiumlga CT Nguyen N Galanis G Roy Heat transfer behaviours of nano1047298uids in a uniformly heated tube Superlattices and Microstructures 35(2004) 543e557

[16] SEB Maiumlga SJ Palm CT Nguyen G Roy N Galanis Heat transferenhancement by using nano1047298uids in forced convection 1047298ows International

Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 26 (2005) 530e546[17] Y Ding H Alias D Wen RA Williams Heat transfer of aqueous suspensions

of carbon nanotubes(CNT nano1047298uids) International Journal of Heat and MassTransfer 49 (2006) 240e250

[18] BH Chun HU Kang SH Kim Effect of alumina nanoparticles in the 1047298uid onheat transfer in double-pipe heat exchanger system Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 25 (5) (2008) 966e971

[19] Y He Y Men X Liu H Lu H Chen Y Ding Study on forced convective heattransfer of non-newtonian nano1047298uids Journal of Thermal Science 18 (1)(2009) 20e26

[20] AD Sommers KL Yerkes Experimental investigation into the convectiveheat transfer and system-level effects of Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid Journal of Nanoparticle Research 12 (2010) 1003e1014

[21] K Alammar L Hu Laminar 1047298ow and heat transfer characteristics of nano-particle colloidal dispersions in water Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 541e546

[22] A Akbarinia A Behzadmehr Numerical study of laminar mixed convection of a nano1047298uid in horizontal curved tubes Applied Thermal Engineering 27(2007) 1327e1337

[23] A Akbarinia Impacts of nano1047298uid 1047298ow on skin friction factor and Nusseltnumber in curved tubes with constant mass 1047298ow International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 29 (2008) 229e241

[24] A Akbarinia R Laur Investigating the diameter of solid particles effects ona laminar nano1047298uid 1047298ow in a curved tube using a two phase approachInternational Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 30 (2009) 706e714

[25] Y Xuan Q Li Heat transfer enhancement of nano1047298uids International Journalof Heat and Fluid Flow 21 (2000) 58e64

[26] JE Akin Finite Elements for Analysis and Design Academic Press San DiegoUSA 1994

[27] B Ramaswamy Finite element solution for advection and natural convection1047298ows Computers amp Fluids 16 (4) (1988) 349e388

[28] B Ramaswamy Ef 1047297cient 1047297nite element method f or two-dimensional 1047298uid1047298ow and heat transfer problems Numerical Heat Transfer Part B 17 (1990)123e154

[29] B Ramaswamy TC Jue JE Akin Semi-implicit and explicit 1047297nite elementschemes for coupled 1047298uidthermal problems International Journal forNumerical Methods in Engineering 34 (1992) 675e696

[30] KS Cha JW Choi CG Park Finite element analysis of 1047298uid 1047298ows withmoving boundary Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology 16 (5)(2002) 683e695

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[31] P Oosthuizen D Naylor Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer AnalysisWCBMcGraw-Hill New York USA 1999

[32] ANSYS CFX Userrsquos Guide(ANSYS CFX Release 121) ANSYS Inc PA USA 2009[33] KA Hoffmann ST Chiang Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers Vol

I Engineering Education System Austin Texas USA 1993

[34] RL Hamilton OK Crosser Thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two-component system IampEC Fundamentals 1 (1962) 187e191

[35] Y Xuan W Roetzel Conceptions for heat transfer correlations of nano-1047298uids International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 43 (19) (2000)3701e3707

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hm average convective heat transfer coef 1047297cient using mean

temperature W(m2 K)

k thermal conductivity W(mK)

l dimensionless length of inlet pipe or outlet pipe

n shape factor of nanoparticle (frac143 for spherical

nanoparticle)

nin jnk unit vectors in Cartesian tensor form (i jk frac14 1 2 3)

N interpolation function

N j interpolation functions in Cartesian tensor form

( j frac14 1 2 3)

Nu average Nusselt number eth frac14 hmd=kTHORN

p dimensionless pressure (frac14 prw)

p pressure Pa

Pe Peclet number (frac14RePr )

Pr Prandtl number (frac14C pmk)

qw heat 1047298ux at wall Wm2

r coordinate in radial direction m

r o radius of pipe m

R dimensionless curvature radius of the return bend

Re Reynolds number (frac14rwdm)

t dimensionless time (frac14t wd)

t time s

Dt dimensionless time stepT dimensionless temperature eth frac14 ethT T i THORN=ethT i 27315THORNTHORN

T temperature K

T i temperature at inlet K

T c temperature at center K

T w temperature at wall K

uvw dimensionless velocities in x y z directions (frac14velocityw)

uiu juk dimensionless velocities in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14velocitywi jk frac14 123)

w axial velocity ms

wc axial velocity at center ms

x y z dimensionless coordinates (frac14coordinated)

xi x j xk dimensionless coordinates in Cartesian tensor form

(frac14coordinatedi jk frac14 123)

Greek symbols

G boundary of the domain U

m dynamic viscosity (Ns)m2

xhz coordinates in computational space

r density kgm3

f nanoparticle volume concentration

U bounded domain

Superscripts

c refers to result from convective approximation step

n refers to result from pressure correction step and velocity

correction step

o refers to result from previous time step

v refers to result from viscous prediction step

Subscripts

b refers to return bend

eff refers to effective physical property

f refers to base 1047298uid (water)

i refers to inlet pipe

nf refers to nano1047298uid

o refers to outlet pipe

s refers to nanoparticle

t refers to entire pipes

References

[1] A Bejan S Lorente Thermodynamic optimization of 1047298ow geometry inmechanical and civil engineering Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermody-namics 26 (2001) 305e354

[2] Z Li SC Mantell JH Davidson Mechanical analysis of streamlined tubes withnon-uniform wall thickness for heat exchangers The Journal of Strain Analysisfor Engineering Design 40 (3) (2005) 275e285

[3] H Naja1047297 B Naja1047297 Multi-objective optimization of a plate and frame heatexchanger via genetic algorithm Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 639e647

[4] S Lee SUS Choi Application of Metallic Nanoparticle Suspensions inAdvanced Cooling Systems Proceedings of International Mechanical Engi-neering Congress and Exhibition Atlanta Georgia USA 1996

[5] CW Sohn MM Chen Microconvective thermal conductivity in disperse two-phase mixtures as observed in a low velocity Couette 1047298ow experiment Journalof Heat Transfer 103 (1981) 47e51

[6] MC Roco CA Shook Modeling of slurry 1047298ow the effect of particle size TheCanadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 61 (4) (1983) 494e503

[7] K V Liu U S Choi K E Kasza Measurements of pressure drop and heattransfer in turbulent pipe 1047298ows of particulate slurries Argonne NationalLaboratory Report ANL-88e15 1988

[8] SUS Choi ZG Zhang W Yu FE Lockwood EA Grulke Anomalouslythermal conductivity enhancement in nanotube suspensions Applied PhysicsLetters 79 (14) (2001) 2252e2254

[9] XQ Wang AS Mujumdar Heat transfer characteristics of nano1047298uidsa review International Journal of Thermal Sciences 46 (2007) 1e9

[10] VI Terekhov SV Kalinina VV Lemanov The mechanism of heat transfer innano1047298uids state of the art(review) Part 1 Synthesis and properties of

nano1047298uids Thermophysics and Aeromechanics 17 (1) (2010) 1e

13[11] W Yu DM France JL Routbort SUS Choi Review and comparison of

nano1047298uid thermal conductivity and heat transfer enhancements HeatTransfer Engineering 29 (5) (2008) 432e460

[12] BC Pak YI Cho Hydrodynamic and heat transfer study of dispersed 1047298uidswith submicron metallic oxide particles Experimental Heat Transfer 11 (2)(1998) 151e170

[13] Y Xuan Q Li Investigation on convective heat transfer and 1047298ow features of nano1047298uids Journal of Heat Transfer 125 (2003) 151e155

[14] D Wen Y Ding Experimental investigation into convective heat transfer of nano1047298uids at the entrance region under laminar 1047298ow conditions Interna-tional Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 47 (2004) 5181e5188

[15] SEB Maiumlga CT Nguyen N Galanis G Roy Heat transfer behaviours of nano1047298uids in a uniformly heated tube Superlattices and Microstructures 35(2004) 543e557

[16] SEB Maiumlga SJ Palm CT Nguyen G Roy N Galanis Heat transferenhancement by using nano1047298uids in forced convection 1047298ows International

Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 26 (2005) 530e546[17] Y Ding H Alias D Wen RA Williams Heat transfer of aqueous suspensions

of carbon nanotubes(CNT nano1047298uids) International Journal of Heat and MassTransfer 49 (2006) 240e250

[18] BH Chun HU Kang SH Kim Effect of alumina nanoparticles in the 1047298uid onheat transfer in double-pipe heat exchanger system Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 25 (5) (2008) 966e971

[19] Y He Y Men X Liu H Lu H Chen Y Ding Study on forced convective heattransfer of non-newtonian nano1047298uids Journal of Thermal Science 18 (1)(2009) 20e26

[20] AD Sommers KL Yerkes Experimental investigation into the convectiveheat transfer and system-level effects of Al2O3epropanol nano1047298uid Journal of Nanoparticle Research 12 (2010) 1003e1014

[21] K Alammar L Hu Laminar 1047298ow and heat transfer characteristics of nano-particle colloidal dispersions in water Heat Mass Transfer 46 (2010) 541e546

[22] A Akbarinia A Behzadmehr Numerical study of laminar mixed convection of a nano1047298uid in horizontal curved tubes Applied Thermal Engineering 27(2007) 1327e1337

[23] A Akbarinia Impacts of nano1047298uid 1047298ow on skin friction factor and Nusseltnumber in curved tubes with constant mass 1047298ow International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 29 (2008) 229e241

[24] A Akbarinia R Laur Investigating the diameter of solid particles effects ona laminar nano1047298uid 1047298ow in a curved tube using a two phase approachInternational Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 30 (2009) 706e714

[25] Y Xuan Q Li Heat transfer enhancement of nano1047298uids International Journalof Heat and Fluid Flow 21 (2000) 58e64

[26] JE Akin Finite Elements for Analysis and Design Academic Press San DiegoUSA 1994

[27] B Ramaswamy Finite element solution for advection and natural convection1047298ows Computers amp Fluids 16 (4) (1988) 349e388

[28] B Ramaswamy Ef 1047297cient 1047297nite element method f or two-dimensional 1047298uid1047298ow and heat transfer problems Numerical Heat Transfer Part B 17 (1990)123e154

[29] B Ramaswamy TC Jue JE Akin Semi-implicit and explicit 1047297nite elementschemes for coupled 1047298uidthermal problems International Journal forNumerical Methods in Engineering 34 (1992) 675e696

[30] KS Cha JW Choi CG Park Finite element analysis of 1047298uid 1047298ows withmoving boundary Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology 16 (5)(2002) 683e695

J Choi Y Zhang International Journal of Thermal Sciences 55 (2012) 90e102 101

7172019 jurnal

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulljurnal-56914057746af 1313

[31] P Oosthuizen D Naylor Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer AnalysisWCBMcGraw-Hill New York USA 1999

[32] ANSYS CFX Userrsquos Guide(ANSYS CFX Release 121) ANSYS Inc PA USA 2009[33] KA Hoffmann ST Chiang Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers Vol

I Engineering Education System Austin Texas USA 1993

[34] RL Hamilton OK Crosser Thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two-component system IampEC Fundamentals 1 (1962) 187e191

[35] Y Xuan W Roetzel Conceptions for heat transfer correlations of nano-1047298uids International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 43 (19) (2000)3701e3707

J Choi Y Zhang International Journal of Thermal Sciences 55 (2012) 90e102102

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[31] P Oosthuizen D Naylor Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer AnalysisWCBMcGraw-Hill New York USA 1999

[32] ANSYS CFX Userrsquos Guide(ANSYS CFX Release 121) ANSYS Inc PA USA 2009[33] KA Hoffmann ST Chiang Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers Vol

I Engineering Education System Austin Texas USA 1993

[34] RL Hamilton OK Crosser Thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two-component system IampEC Fundamentals 1 (1962) 187e191

[35] Y Xuan W Roetzel Conceptions for heat transfer correlations of nano-1047298uids International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 43 (19) (2000)3701e3707

J Choi Y Zhang International Journal of Thermal Sciences 55 (2012) 90e102102