TY - JOUR
TI - Investigating the effect of Brownian motion models on heat transfer and entropy generation in nanofluid forced convection
AU - Pourmohamadian H
AU - Sheikhzadeh Ghanbarali
AU - Aghaei Alireza
AU - Ehteram Hamidreza
AU - Adibi M
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2019
VL - 23
IS - 2
SP - 485
EP - 496
PT - Article
AB - this study the influence of Brownian motion models on fluid flow, heat  transfer and entropy generation in nanofluid forced convection with variable  properties has been numerically inspected in a enclosure with central heat  source. The governing equations were solved by finite volume method and  SIMPLER algorithm. The numerical study was carried out for Reynolds numbers  between 10 and 1000 and nanoparticles volume fraction between 0 and .04. The  numerical results show that for all investigated models the average Nusselt  number increases by nanoparticle volume fraction increment in all Reynolds  number. The overall entropy generation behavior is similar to average Nusselt  number variation for all inspected models. Among all analyzed models the  estimation of Maxwell-Brinkman and Das-Vajjha [30] Models are mainly closed  to each other.