Performance characteristics of a microchannel heat sink using TiO2/water nanofluid and different thermophysical models

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Author list: Nitiapiruk P., Mahian O., Dalkilic A.S., Wongwises S.

Publisher: Elsevier

Publication year: 2013

Journal: International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer (0735-1933)

Volume number: 47

Start page: 98

End page: 104

Number of pages: 7

ISSN: 0735-1933

eISSN: 1879-0178

URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84883214911&doi=10.1016%2fj.icheatmasstransfer.2013.07.001&partnerID=40&md5=b9535fa5853343a1e1bc9cfe6926732f

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

In this paper, the performance of a microchannel heat sink using TiO2/water nanofluid is experimentally investigated. The dimensions of the microchannel are 500μm width, 800μm height, and 40mm length, where the number of flowing channels is 40.The effects of uncertainties in thermophysical properties on the Nusselt number and friction factor are investigated by using three different sets of thermophysical models, which are based on experimental and theoretical relations. It is concluded that the use of the model which is based on experimental data is very important to estimate the friction factor, while the use of different models to calculate of thermal conductivity has no considerable effect on the prediction of Nusselt number. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

Keywords

Microchannel, Performance characteristics, Thermophysical properties