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Rasool Maroofiazar

Rasool Maroofiazar

Academic rank: Associate Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Research

Title
Experimental Study on the Effect of Magnetic Field on Critical Heat Flux of Ferrofluid Flow Boiling in a Vertical Tube
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Subcooled Flow Boiling, Vertical tube, Magnetic Field, Ferrofluid, Critical Heat Flux
Year
2019
Journal Iranian Journal of Mechanical Engineering Transactions of the ISME
DOI
Researchers ، Habib Aminfar ، Mousa Mohammadpourfard ، Rasool Maroofiazar

Abstract

In the present work, the critical heat flux measurements were performed for the subcooled flow boiling of pure water and magnetic nanofluids (i.e., water + 0.01 and 0.1 vol.% Fe3O4) in a vertical tube. The effect of applying an external magnetic field on the CHF variation was studied experimentally as well. The obtained results indicated that the subcooled flow boiling CHF in the vertical tube is increased by using the nanofluid as the working fluid, especially in lower volume concentration of nanoparticles. The nanoparticles deposition on the tube inner surface and consequently improvement of the surface characteristics such as nucleation site density, wettability and re-wetting properties could be mentioned as the main reasons of this incident. Moreover, it was seen that applying the magnetic field leads to the additional enhancement in the CHF of ferrofluids. It could be clarified as the attraction of the nanoparticles into the magnets and increasing the surface wettability resulted in the CHF enhancement.