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Mechanical Engineering

Vol. 36 No. 01 (2021): Proceedings of Faculty of Technical Sciences

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF IONIC-NANOFLUID LIQUID FLOW TROUGH A HORIZONTAL PIPE OF CIRCULAR CROSS SECTION

  • Nikola Drobac
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24867/11AM06Drobac
Submitted
December 22, 2020
Published
2020-12-22

Abstract

The subject of this research was laminar flow of ionic-nanofluid through a horizontal tube with circular cross-section. The aim of this research was investigating of forced convection and hydraulic characteristics in a straight pipe section using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Verification of numerical simulation data is exe­cuted in two ways: with water flow through a pipe, and comparation between a pressure drop results from simu­lation and the pressure drop obtained from the Darcy - Weisbach equation. Shash's equation was used for cal­culation of Nusselt's number and it was compared with Nusselt number calculated from CFD simulations results for the purpose of numerical simulation result verifica­tion. To check weather using of examined ionic nanofluid is meaningful in heat transfer systems, a few criteria was used. Results of numerical simulations was successfully verified, and it was found that examined fluid meets the criteria for mass concentrations of 0.5 % and 1 % nanoparticles and inlet temperature of fluid T=335 K.

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