Research Article
Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Rectangular Heated Pipe for Turbulent Nanofluid
Table 1
Thermophysical properties of the base fluid and the nanoparticles used in this study [
4,
30,
31].
| Property | Pure water | Al2O3 | CuO | SiO2 | ZnO |
| Density, (kg/m³) | 998.2 | 3970 | 6500 | 2200 | 5600 | Specific heat, Cp (J/kg·K) | 4182 | 765 | 535.6 | 703 | 495.2 | Thermal conductivity, (W/m·K) | 0.6 | 40 | 20 | 1.2 | 13 | Dynamic viscosity, (Ns/m²) | 0.001003 | — | — | — | — |
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