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Browsing Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology by Supervisor "Sharifpur, Mohsen"
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Nanofluids show great potential for conventional heat transfer fluids that could benefit industries and save huge costs. Nanofluids are well known for enormously enhancing the thermal conductivity of a base fluid. However, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This Master of Engineering investigation focuses on the natural convection of nanofluids in rectangular cavities. The governing equations applied to analyse the heat transfer and fluid flow occurring within the cavity are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Nanofluids are a new class of heat transfer fluids that aim to improve the poor thermal efficiency of conventional heat transfer fluids. The dispersion of nanoparticles into traditional heat transfer fluids, such as water, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Glycerol has historically been used as an antifreeze fluid to facilitate heat transfer in the automotive and air conditioning and refrigeration industries. It has also been used as a lubricant in the processing of food and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Nanofluids, which are suspensions of nanoparticles in conventional heat transfer fluids, attracted research studies on different heat transfer applications, while they enhance thermal transport properties in comparison ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The growing demand for energy worldwide requires attention to the design and operating of heat exchangers and thermal devices to utilise and save thermal energy. There is a need to find new heat transport fluids with ...
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Experimental investigation of free-surface jet-impingement cooling by means of TiO2-water nanofluids (University of Pretoria, 2019)The exponential advancements in the field of electronics and power generation have resulted in increased pressure on the thermal management of these systems where the desire for enhanced heat transfer is prevalent. A ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The thermophysical properties of nanofluids have attracted the attention of researchers to a far greater extent than the heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids have. Contradictory results on the thermal-fluid behaviour ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The South African electricity mix is highly dependent on subcritical coal-fired power stations. The average thermal efficiency of these power plants is low. Traditional methods to increase the thermal efficiency of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Natural convection as a heat transfer mechanism plays a major role in the functioning of many heat transfer devices, such as heat exchangers, energy storage, thermal management and solar collectors. All of these have a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Please read abstract in the thesis.
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)In most previous studies that have been conducted on converting waste heat energy from exhaust gases into useful energy, the engine waste heat recovery system has been placed along the exhaust flow pipe where the temperature ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The main objective of this work is to establish an analytical model to evaluate the rate of corrosion in a horizontal pipe downstream of an orifice under flow-accelerated corrosion (FAC). FAC is a serious issue in nuclear ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)In this dissertation, mathematical research is performed to model nanofluid thermophysical properties in terms of multivariate probability density functions utilizing copulas from known verified and validated experimental ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Nanofluids are modern heat transfer fluids which can significantly increase the thermal performance of a thermal system. It enhances the thermal conductivity of working fluids due to adding solid nanoparticles to the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The use of nanofluids in buoyancy-driven heat transfer can be very useful in enhancing the performance of various heat transfer applications. In this thesis, natural convection by multiwalled- carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Choosing correct boundary conditions, flow field characteristics and employing right thermal fluid properties can affect the simulation of convection heat transfer using nanofluids. Nanofluids have shown higher heat ...
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