International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, ( ISI ), Volume (65), No (7), Year (2013-7) , Pages (514-532)

Title : ( A review of entropy generation in nanofluid flow )

Authors: Omid Mahian , Ali Kianifar , Clement Kleinstreuer , Moh’d A. Al-Nimr , Ioan Pop , Ahmet Z. Sahin , Somchai Wongwises ,

Access to full-text not allowed by authors

Citation: BibTeX | EndNote

Abstract

The development and use of nanofluids, i.e., dilute suspensions of nanoparticles in liquids, have found a wide range of applications in consumer products, nanomedicine, energy conversion, and microsystem cooling. Of special interest is the use of nanofluid flow for enhanced convection heat transfer to achieve rapid cooling of high heat-flux devices. However, for proper optimization of such thermal engineering systems in terms of design and operation, not only the heat transfer has to be maximized but the entropy generation has to be minimized as well. In this paper, theoretical and computational contributions on entropy generation due to flow and heat transfer of nanofluids in different geometries and flow regimes are reviewed. First, a variety of models used to calculate the thermophysical properties of nanofluids are presented. Then, the effects of thermal nanofluid flow on the rate of entropy generation for different applications are discussed. Finally, some suggestions for future work are presented. The aim of this review paper is to motivate the researchers to pay more attention to the entropy generation analysis of heat and fluid flow of nanofluids to improve the system performance.

Keywords

Nanofluid flow Thermophysical property Entropy generation
برای دانلود از شناسه و رمز عبور پرتال پویا استفاده کنید.

@article{paperid:1035298,
author = {Mahian, Omid and Kianifar, Ali and Clement Kleinstreuer and Moh’d A. Al-Nimr and Ioan Pop and Ahmet Z. Sahin and Somchai Wongwises},
title = {A review of entropy generation in nanofluid flow},
journal = {International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer},
year = {2013},
volume = {65},
number = {7},
month = {July},
issn = {0017-9310},
pages = {514--532},
numpages = {18},
keywords = {Nanofluid flow Thermophysical property Entropy generation},
}

[Download]

%0 Journal Article
%T A review of entropy generation in nanofluid flow
%A Mahian, Omid
%A Kianifar, Ali
%A Clement Kleinstreuer
%A Moh’d A. Al-Nimr
%A Ioan Pop
%A Ahmet Z. Sahin
%A Somchai Wongwises
%J International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
%@ 0017-9310
%D 2013

[Download]