| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 128, 2019
XII International Conference on Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer (ICCHMT 2019)
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| Article Number | 04011 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Heat Exchangers | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201912804011 | |
| Published online | 08 November 2019 | |
Determination Of Heat Transfer Characteristics Employing Modified Maximum Slope Method For Porous Media Heat Exchanger Using Al2O3–Water Nanofluids
1
Micro/Nanofluidics Research Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Collegeof Engineering Trivandrum,
Kerala
India
2
Advanced Thermo Fluid Research Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Trivandrum,
Kerala,
India
3
Micro/Nanofluidics Research Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Trivandrum,
Kerala,
India
* Corresponding author: anjanrn@gmail.com
It has been well documented in many literature that porous media and nanofluid can augment heat transfer in many engineering system. However the combined usage of these two media has not been given much attention in literature. The objective of the present work is to experimentally investigate porous media heat exchanger using Al2O3/water nanofluids. The heat transfer characteristics is determined using transient testing method wherein, only one fluid stream flows steadily throughthe test core, then a transient perturbation in the inlet fluid temperature is induced and the outletfluid temperature variation is measured continuously. The measured data is evaluated using the maximum slope method to obtain the heat transfer characteristics. The results show an increase in Nusselt number values with the use of nanofluids in porous media heat exchanger compared to water
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