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Journal of Experimental and Theoretical NANOTECHNOLOGY

About the Journal :

Experimental and Theoretical NANOTECHNOLOGY (ETN) abbreviated as Exp. Theo. NANOTECHNOLOGY is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed and open access journal. It includes specialized research papers, short communications, reviews and selected conference papers in special issues on the characterization, synthesis, processing, structure and properties of different principles and applications of nanotechnology with focus on advantageous achievements and applications for the specialists in engineering, chemistry, physics, materials science and medicine. ETN covers and publishes all aspects of fundamental and applied researches of experimental and theoretical nanoscale technology dealing with materials synthesis, processing, nanofabrication, nanoprobes, spectroscopy, properties, biological systems, nanostructures, nanoelectronics, nano-optics, nano-mechanics, nanodevices, nanobiotechnology, nanomedicine, nanotoxicology within the scope of the journal. ETN aims to acquire the recent and outstanding researches for the benefit of the human being.



NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER AUGMENTATION IN CURVED CHANNEL USING HYBRID NANOFLUIDS


Convective heat transfer can be enhanced by changing flow geometry and/or by enhancing
thermal conductivity of the fluid. In this work, CFD modelling of horizontal straight and curved
channel with square cross section were presented to investigate the effect of hybrid nanofluids on
turbulent forced convective heat transfer. This study proposes simultaneous passive heat transfer
enhancement by combining the geometry effect using 0.1% graphene nanoplatelets-silver hybrid
nanofluids (GNP–Ag) inflow in straight and curved channel. The results showed that the average
Nusselt number is generally higher for curved channel with hybrid nanofluid when compared
with straight square channel. Moreover, for 0.1% of GNP–Ag hybrid nanofluid improvement is
22.61% and 34.78% for straight channel and 27.43% and 39.52 for curved channel at the
Reynolds number of 5,000 and 17,500, respectively.

Keywords: Heat transfer; turbulent flow; hybrid nanofluid; curved channel; straight channel.