ANALYSIS OF NANOFLUID IN DOUBLE PIPE

HEAT EXCHANGER
In past decade’s years, many researchers had discovered that nanofluids
have a brilliant efficiency in the heat transfer process. They believe that
application of nanofluids in the heat transfer equipment would bring a
better enhancement in comparison with the conventional cooling fluids.

One of the advanced techniques among the heat exchanger process is

suspension of nanoparticle in the base fluids such as water, oil etc. In the
present work Al2O3 nanoparticle is suspended in water. The present work
has been carried out on double pipe heat exchanger for water to water
and nanofluid to water heat transfer investigation with counter flow
arrangement . The computational fluid dynamic code is used to simulate
different concentrations of nanofluid (0.2% to 2.0%) in ANSYS FLUENT 15
software. Various correlations are used to find the properties of
nanofluids and the value of these properties are given as input to the
software.Effect of nanoparticles concentration on Reynolds number, wall
shear stress,Nusselt number and heat transfer coefficient will be
analysed.