Comparative numerical study of single and two-phase models of nanofluid heat transfer in wavy channel.pdf

Appl. Math. Mech. -Engl. Ed., 35(7), 831–848 (2014) Applied Mathematics DOI 10.1007/s10483-014-1839-9 and Mechanics c Shanghai University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 (English Edition) Comparative numerical study of single and two-phase models of nanofluid heat transfer in wavy channel∗ 1 1 2 3 4 M. M. RASHIDI , A. HOSSEINI , I. POP , S. KUMAR , N. FREIDOONIMEHR (1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan 65178-38695, Iran; 2. Department of Mathematics, Babe¸cBolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 400084, Romania; 3. Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur 831014, Jharkhand, India; 4. Young Researchers Elite Club, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan 65181-15743, Iran) Abstract The main purpose of this study is to survey numerically comparison of two- phase and single phase of heat transfer and flow field of copper-water nanofluid in a wavy channel. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) prediction is used for heat transfer and flow prediction of the single phase and three different two-phase models (mixture, volume of fluid (VOF), and Eulerian). The heat transfer coefficient, temperature, and velocity distributions are investigated. The results show that the differences between t