A review on the applications of nanofluids in solar energy systems

A Kasaeian, AT Eshghi, M Sameti - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
The negative impact of human activities on the environment receives tremendous attention,
especially on the increased global temperature. To combat climate change, clean and …

Numerical study of convective heat transfer of nanofluids: a review

SM Vanaki, P Ganesan, HA Mohammed - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2016 - Elsevier
The recent development of nanotechnology led to the concept of using suspended
nanoparticles in heat transfer fluids to improve the heat transfer coefficient of the base fluids …

Numerical simulation of natural convection heat transfer inside a┴ shaped cavity filled by a MWCNT-Fe3O4/water hybrid nanofluids using LBM

M Izadi, R Mohebbi, D Karimi, MA Sheremet - Chemical Engineering and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural convection of multi-wall carbon nanotubes-Iron Oxide nanoparticles/water hybrid
nanofluid (MWCNT-Fe 3 O 4/water hybrid nanofluid) inside a┴ shaped enclosure has been …

A comprehensive review on mixed convection of nanofluids in various shapes of enclosures

S Izadi, T Armaghani, R Ghasemiasl, AJ Chamkha… - Powder Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper aims to review all the published studies about mixed convection of nanofluids in
enclosures. The papers are categorized into four main classes, namely square (and …

Numerical study of MHD boundary layer flow of a Maxwell fluid past a stretching sheet in the presence of nanoparticles

S Nadeem, RU Haq, ZH Khan - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical …, 2014 - Elsevier
In the present article, two dimensional boundary-layer flows and the heat transfer of a
Maxwell fluid past a stretching sheet are studied numerically. The effects of …

Energy transfer in mixed convection MHD flow of nanofluid containing different shapes of nanoparticles in a channel filled with saturated porous medium

G Aaiza, I Khan, S Shafie - Nanoscale research letters, 2015 - Springer
Energy transfer in mixed convection unsteady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of an
incompressible nanofluid inside a channel filled with saturated porous medium is …

Heat source location and natural convection in a C-shaped enclosure saturated by a nanofluid

R Mohebbi, M Izadi, AJ Chamkha - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, the effect of the presence of a heat source and its location on natural convection
in a C-shaped enclosure saturated by a nanofluid is investigated numerically using the …

Numerical simulation of natural convection heat transfer of a nanofluid in an L-shaped enclosure with a heating obstacle

R Mohebbi, MM Rashidi - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
The natural convection heat transfer in an L-shaped enclosure being filled with Al 2 O
3/water nanofluid and having an internal heating obstacle is presented in this paper by LBM …

Experimental investigation on cavity flow natural convection of Al2O3–water nanofluids

H Ghodsinezhad, M Sharifpur, JP Meyer - International Communications in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Thermo-physical properties of nanofluids have attracted the attention of researchers more
than the heat transfer characteristic of nanofluids. On the other hand, contradictory results …

MHD natural convection and entropy generation in a trapezoidal enclosure using Cu–water nanofluid

AH Mahmoudi, I Pop, M Shahi, F Talebi - Computers & Fluids, 2013 - Elsevier
The present work investigates the entropy generation and enhancement of heat transfer in
natural convection flow and heat transfer using Copper (Cu)–water nanofluid in the …