Abstract
A theoretical analysis has been made to explore thermal entrance region heat transfer in nanofluids. The nu- merical model used in this paper is based on the Buongiorno model for convective heat transfer in nanofluids with modi- fications to fully account for the effects of nanoparticles volume fraction distributions on the continuity, momentum and energy equations. Numerical investigations have been conducted for developing laminar forced convection flows in a cir- cular tube subject to a uniform wall heat flux. From the results, it has been concluded that, for certain cases of alumina- water nanofluids and titania-water nanofluids, in most entrance region, anomalous heat transfer enhancement (that ex- ceeding the rate expected from the increase in thermal conductivity) is possible, whereas, close to the edge of the en- trance, no anomalous heat transfer enhancement is observed.
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