Abstract
Abstract Experimental and numerical studies were presented to reveal the flow and heat transfer characteristics of nanofluid laminar flow over the microscale backward-facing step (MBFS). The duct inlet and the step height were 400 μm and 600 μm respectively. All the walls considered adiabatic except the downstream wall is heated by uniform heat flux. The experiment is conducted at the Reynolds number range from 280 to 470. The distilled water is considered as a base fluid with two types of nanoparticles SiO 2 and Al 2 O 3 immersed in the base fluid. The particle diameter is 30 nm and the range of nanoparticles volume fraction in the base fluid varied from 0 to 0.01. The measurement results revealed that the water–SiO 2 nanofluid has the highest Nusselt number. It is found also that the Nusselt number increase with increases volume fraction. The water–SiO 2 nanofluid with higher volume fraction has the highest Nusselt number. The friction factor of water–Al 2 O 3 was higher than of water–SiO 2 mixture. The numerical results were in good agreement with the measurement results.
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