Title

Heat transfer through convection in a quasi-one-dimensional magnetic fluid

Authors

Authors

J. Huang;W. L. Luo

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Therm. Anal. Calorim.

Keywords

Magnetic fluids; Convection; Convective heat transfer; Magnetic field; effect on heat transfer; Magnetic field enhanced/inhibited heat; transfer; Magnetic field effect on natural convection; FERROFLUIDS; Chemistry, Analytical; Chemistry, Physical

Abstract

A magnetic fluid consists of magnetic nanoparticles suspended in nonmagnetic solvent. The buoyancy-induced natural convection is observed in a quasi-one-dimensional magnetic fluid in a horizontal temperature gradient. The local temperatures across the sample were measured by eight thermal sensors in the sample cell in both zero field and as a function of applied field, which is perpendicular to the gravity. In applied magnetic field and field gradient, it was found that when the field gradient is anti-parallel to the temperature gradient the temperature difference across the whole sample, a dagger T, increases with increasing field and field gradient, indicating the slowing down of the convective heat transfer. Delta T decreases for field gradient parallel to the temperature gradient, suggesting the speeding up the heat transfer process. We will discuss the possible mechanism for these phenomena. The potential applications in controlling heat transfer in fluids with applied fields will be discussed.

Journal Title

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

Volume

113

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

449

Last Page

452

WOS Identifier

WOS:000321784900004

ISSN

1388-6150

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