Research Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: September | Volume: 8 | Issue: 9 | Pages: 507-517
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210964
Flow and Heat Transfer of the Cu-Water Nanofluid in a Corrugated Channel
Rahima Benchabi1, Ahsene Lanani2
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Freres Mentouri, Constantine 1, 25000
2Department of Mathematics, University of Freres Mentouri, Constantine 1, 25000
Corresponding Author: Rahima Benchabi
ABSTRACT
This paper is devoted to study the influence of the Cu-water nanofluid on a two-dimensional laminar and incompressible flow and heat transfer in a corrugated triangular-based channel filled with homogeneous mixture of water and metallic nanoparticles. The equations governing the problem were solved using the finite volume method. ANSYS 15.0 FLUENT software was used to perform the numerical simulations. These numerical simulations were carried out for different values of the Reynolds number ranging from 100 to 1000 and for metallic nanoparticles of diameter with volume fractions of and. The effect of the Reynolds number, the nature of the nanofluid on the flow field and the heat transfer were studied. Note that the obtained results are in good agreement with the results existing in the literature.
Keywords: Cu-water nanofluid, Fluent, forced convection, Reynolds number, volume fraction.
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