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THERMAL-HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS OF FERROFLUID LAMINAR FLOW IN TUBE UNDER NON-UNIFORM MAGNETIC FIELD CREATED BY A PERIODIC CURRENT-CARRYING WIRE
Abderraouf Dahmania,∗
, José Muñoz-Cámarab, Juan Pedro Solanob, Samir Laouedja
a Laboratory of Materials and Reactive Systems, University Djillali Liabes, Sidi Bel Abbes, 22000, Algeria.
b Dep. Ingeniería Térmica y de Fluidos, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena Campus Muralla del Mar, Cartagena, 30202, Spain.
∗ Corresponding author. Email: da.abderraouf@gmail.com
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2022, 18, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.18.42
Abstract
In this paper, a steady and laminar flow of ferrofluid (
Fe3O4/Water) in a uniformly heated tube under the effect of non-uniform magnetic field
arranged periodically along the tube is numerically analyzed using the finite volume method. The analysis sheds light on the flow pattern, Nusselt
number, friction factor and the Performance Evaluation Criterion, at laminar flow regime (10
2 ≤
Re ≤ 10
3
) and for various magnetic numbers
(
Mn = 0, 2.83 · 10
4
, 6.37 · 10
4
and 1.13 · 10
5
). The obtained results show that the magnetic field generated by periodic arrangement of the wire
pitches, forces the flow to behave periodically as a result of the counter-rotating vortices and its periodic fluctuations due the Kelvin body force
distribution. As a consequence, the Nusselt number increased by up to 8 % comparing to the cases without magnetic field. Also, a noticeable low
increment for the friction factor is noticed (0.5 %).
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Dahmani, A., Solano, J. P., Laouedj, S. (2022). THERMAL-HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS OF FERROFLUID LAMINAR FLOW IN TUBE UNDER NON-UNIFORM MAGNETIC FIELD CREATED BY A PERIODIC CURRENT-CARRYING WIRE.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 18(1), 1–8.