Author(s)

Md. Ebrahim Khalil Bhuiyan, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan, Iqbal Mahmud

Department of Textile Engineering, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Fluid containing nanometer-sized particles (i.e. nanoparticles) is known as nanofluid. Three different nanofluids flowing in a pipe with heat source at the inlet and sink in the walls are studied. The base fluid is water. 20 nm size nanoparticle Al2O3 is mixed with base fluid with volume concentrations of 0.1%, 0.2% and 0.5%. Simulation is done using ANSYS Workbench 17.1. The result shows correlation between concentration of nanoparticle and temperature gradient at the outlet of the pipe.

Nanofluid, Nanoparticle, Al2O3, CFD, ANSYS

Bhuiyan, M. , Khan, M. and Mahmud, I. (2017) Water Based Nanofluids: A Computational Study on Temperature Distribution in a Pipe Flow. Advances in Nanoparticles, 6, 141-147. doi: 10.4236/anp.2017.64012.