Numerical Simulation of Al₂O₃-Water Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Tube with Angled Rings

Abstract:

A numerical investigation has been conducted to examine turbulent flow and heat transfer characteristics in a three-dimensional isothermal tube mounted with 60° angled rings (AR). The ARs with pitch spacing ratio, PR=1.0 and various blockage ratios (BR) ranging from 0.025-0.1 are introduced. The computations are based on a finite volume method and the SIMPLE algorithm has been implemented. The fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics are presented for Reynolds number (Re) ranging from 3000 to 12000. To generate a main counter-vortex pair flow in the tube, ARs at an attack angle of 60° are mounted repeatedly in the tube. Effect of different BRs at a single PR and nanofluid, Al₂O₃water, with volume fractions 1% and 5% on heat transfer and friction loss is investigated. It is apparent that two main vortex flows created by the ARs exist and help to induce impinging flows on the tube wall leading to drastic increase in heat transfer rate over the tube. The increment in the BR gives rise to the increase in the Nusselt number and friction factor. The computational results reveal that the maximum thermal enhancement factor for the AR with BR=0.025 is found to be 1.8 at Re =3000. The results show that nanofluid, Al₂O₃ water, can increase the thermal performance when increasing volume fraction to 5%.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 931-932)
• Pages: 1168-1172
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.931-932.1168
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Pongjet Promvonge*, Somchai Sripattanapipat, Withada Jedsadaratanachai
• Keywords: Angled Ring, Circular Tube, Heat Transfer, Nanofluid, Turbulent Flow

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