A Computational Fluid Dynamic Study of Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Using (CuO, Al2O3, TiO2)-Water Nanofluids

Abstract

The Nusselt number for a Shell and tube Heat Exchanger with segmental baffles for different nanofluids, for different mass flow rate are discussed in the present paper. A shell and tube heat exchanger with 7 tubes and 4 segmental baffles modelling is done using SOLIDWORKS and simulation is done by the Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) software; ANSYS-FLUENT. By using Fluent, computational fluid dynamics software the heat transfer coefficient and various heat characteristics of Al2O3–H2O, TiO2–H2O and CuO–H2O for 1% volume of concentration nanofluids are estimated in the Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger considering the turbulent flow.