Heat Transfer of Nanofluids in Converging and Diverging Microchannels by Mixture Model

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

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Today, the use of nanofluids in microchannels is widely used for cooling microelectronic components. In this study, the flow and heat transfer of nanofluid in a converging and diverging microchannel has been investigated. The governing equations are solved by the finite element method and two-phase mixture model in COMSOL Multiphysics software. The results of this simulation were obtained for Reynolds numbers (100-700) and different concentrations of nanoparticles (0-0.02) for diverging and converging microchannels with different slopes (0-0.05). Also, the effect of two different nanofluids water-copper and ethylene-glycol-copper has been considered. The nanoparticles diameter is 50 nm. The results show that for water-copper nanofluid with a volume fraction of 1% in a converging microchannel with a slope of 3% and Reynolds 100, it increases by about 1.6 times for a converging microchannel and 1.1 times for a diverging microchannel compared to a flat microchannel. In this case, the performance coefficient for convergent and divergent microchannel is 1.37 and 1.74, respectively. In the same conditions, for ethylene glycol-copper nanofluid, the Nusselt number for converging microchannel becomes 1.22 times compared to flat microchannel and 1.13 times for divergent microchannel.  

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Amirkabir Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Volume 55, Issue 5
August 2023
Pages 595-616

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