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Nanofluid turbulent forced convection through a solar flat plate collector with Al2O3 nanoparticles

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A numerical approach has been offered in this investigation regarding the turbulent three-dimensional flow due to utilizing twisted tape insets. Solar heat flux was employed to augment the temperature of nanomaterial. Streamline and velocity as well as turbulent intensity are shown in contours. In addition, the simulations with FVM accomplish to capture the behavior of thermal performance with variation of Reynolds number, diameter ratio and number of revolution. Selecting lower diameter ratio results in the thicker thermal boundary layer. Thermal performance is directly proportional to both geometric variables.

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Abbreviations

D * :

Diameter ratio

u :

Velocity

q″:

Heat flux

Pi :

Pitch length

Nu :

Nusselt number

N :

Revolution

K :

Turbulent kinetic energy

I :

Turbulence intensity

CFD:

Computational fluid dynamics

\(\varepsilon\) :

Dissipation rate

\(\varGamma_{t}\) :

Turbulent thermal diffusivity

\(\sigma_{\varepsilon }\) :

Turbulent Prandtl number for \(\varepsilon\)

k :

Kinetic energy

b :

Bulk

tt :

Twisted tape

P :

Plain tube

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This article was supported by the National Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. U1610109), Taishan Scholar and ARC DECRA (No. DE190100931). In addition, the authors acknowledge the funding support of Babol Noshirvani University of Technology through Grant Program No. BNUT/390051/98.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran

    Seyyed Ali Farshad, M. Sheikholeslami & Seyed Hossein Hosseini

  2. Renewable Energy Systems and Nanofluid Applications in Heat Transfer Laboratory, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran

    Seyyed Ali Farshad, M. Sheikholeslami & Seyed Hossein Hosseini

  3. Applied Science Department, College of Technological Studies, Public Authority of Applied Education and Training, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

    Ahmad Shafee

  4. School of Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266110, China

    Zhixiong Li

  5. School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Zhixiong Li

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Farshad, S.A., Sheikholeslami, M., Hosseini, S.H. et al. Nanofluid turbulent forced convection through a solar flat plate collector with Al2O3 nanoparticles. Microsyst Technol 25, 4237–4247 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-019-04430-2

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