Abstract
The mechanisms of heat transfer enhancement are used in many industrial applications. Several techniques have been promoted to enhance heat transfer rate and to decrease the size and cost of equipment especially the heat exchangers. In this paper, heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop for Al2O3/water nanofluid flow inside circumferential ribbed tubes with different rib dimensions have been experimentally and numerically studies. The nanoparticle size was set equal to 13nm and the volume fractions from 0% to 3% were considered. The ribbed copper tubes tested in this investigation with inner diameter of 14.9mm have the ranges: circumferential depth from 0.5mm to 1.0mm and axial pitch distance from 5mm to 15mm. The inlet temperature of turbulent nanofluid was 25°C and the constant wall heat flux was 5,000W/m2. Comparison of numerical data of ribbed tubes with plain tube shown that the heat transfer coefficient from 92% to 621% and friction factor from 25% to 241% compared to those obtained in smooth tube depending on the circumferential geometric parameters, mass velocity and thermal conductivity of the working fluid.
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