Study on shear-induced thermal conductivity for heat transfer enhancement with non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluids

摘要

Shear-induced viscosity and thermal conductivity measurements were performed for viscoelastic fluids. This research was also designed to investigate the extent to which the thermal conductivity of viscoelastic fluids is affected by fluid motion under conditions in which it is known that the viscous properties undergo significant changes, and then the effect of the shear-induced thermal conductivity measured on the convective heat transfer enhancement for a heat exchanger system. It was also found experimentally that the thermal conductivity increased with shear rate for two polyacrylamide solutions of 1000 and 2000 wppm with order of 23%-43% and 17%-21%, respectively, depending on temperature (20-50 °C). The increase in the thermal conductivity with a shear rate was greater for lower concentration polyacrylamide solutions than for higher concentration ones, with a difference of 8%-22% depending on temperature range (20-50 °C). The convective heat transfer enhancement with the shear-induced thermal conductivity in the infinite rectangular duct was of the order of 41%-74% and 41%-52% over the entire temperature range (20-50 °C) of the two polyacrylamide solutions of 1000 and 2000 wppm, respectively.