Convective Flow and Heat Transfer from Wavy Surfaces: Viscous Fluids, Porous Media, and Nanofluids - Hardcover

Shenoy, Aroon; Sheremet, Mikhail; Pop, Ioan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498760902 ISBN 13: 9781498760904

Publisher: CRC Press, 2016

Synopsis

"Convective Flow and Heat Transfer fromWavy Surfaces: Viscous Fluids, Porous Media, and Nanofluids" book addresses the wavy irregular surfaces in heat transfer devices. Wavy geometries are used in many engineering systems as a means ofenhancing the transport performance. Therefore, knowledge about convective flowand heat transfer from wavy surfaces becomes important in this context. Solar collectors, condensers in refrigerators, cavity wall insulating systems, grainstorage containers, industrial heat radiators, for example, are a few of many applications where wavy surfaces are encountered to transfer small or large scale heat. The focus on the area of convective flow and heat transfer from wavy surfaces in complex enclosures like square, trapezoidal and rectangular has been intensifying over the years due to the increasing interest of researchers from applied mathematics, mechanical and chemical engineering as well as from biomechanics and engineering mechanics. The present monograph has been written with the idea of fulfilling a definite need to have a comprehensive treatise on the subject of convective flowand heat transfer from wavy surfaces and in cavities having wavy walls.

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About the Author

Dr. Aroon Shenoy is presentlyPresident of SAICO and functions as a Technical Consultant.  He has a very wide gamut of experience thatcovers working in Universities, Research Institutions and Industry. Dr.Shenoy's excellent writing skills and deep knowledge on research areas likepolymer rheology, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and heat transfer attracted theattention of publishers to extend number of invitations to write specializedbooks.

From the Back Cover

The book provides a means to understand complex flow and heat transfer from surfaces with defined unevenness. Wavy surfaces are widespread components of different devices such as solar collectors, heat exchangers, electronics, and machinery. Situations involving convective flows and heat transfer from wavy surfaces are encountered in many practical
situations such as the design of building components for energy consideration, control of pollutant spread in groundwater, geothermal energy technology, compact heat exchangers, solar power collectors, food industries, and have wide potential applications in many engineering areas including the chemical, petroleum, polymer, food processing, pharmaceutical andbiochemical engineering. It is well known that low thermal conductivity of conventional heat transfer fluids (water, oils) is the main limitation for achieving thermal systems efficiency. Convective heat transfer enhancement using solid nanoparticles of metal or metal oxide having high thermal conductivity dispersed in conventional heat transfer fluids, known as nanofluids, has attracted a lot of attention recently and has been studied extensively. The effect of surface undulations on convective flow and heat transfer in nanofluids has been tackled in this book as well. The book demonstrates the method to set up the appropriate governing equations, simplifying them in order to make them amenable for mathematical manipulations, and then solving them using established mathematical techniques for clear fluids, porous mediaand nanofluids. This book has a definite utility value to the experts in fluid mechanics, heat transfer theory, applied mathematicians, as well as for mechanical and chemical engineers interested in the investigation of flow and heat transfer processes past wavy surfaces and their applications. The book can be used by graduate students and industry professionals.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498760902
• ISBN 13: 9781498760904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306