Numerical study of laminar water-Al2O3 nanofluids flow and transfer of
heat through a rectangular micro-channel in presence of trapezoidal
baffles
Abstract
Numerical simulations of laminar water-Al2O3 nanofluids flow phenomena
and thermal behavior (velocity, normalized temperature profiles,
poiseuille number, local and averageNusselt number and friction factor)
through a rectangular micro-channel with two baffles have been studied
with the variations of baffle height, volume fraction percentages and
Re, which has a significant issue in engineering applications. The
governing equations have been solved by SIMPLE algorithm and FLUENT
software has been used to visualize the simulation results which
demonstrate that variation. of volume fraction and baffle height
resulted in a significant change in normalized temperature and velocity
profiles along the center line.