The Force Convection Heat Transfer of a Nanofluid over a Flat Plate: using the Buongiorno’s model: the Thermophysical Properties as a Function of Nanoparticles

A drift-flux model is utilized to theoretically analyze the boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid over a flat plate. The concentration of nanoparticles at the plate is obtained using the solution of the governing equations. Assuming a fixed magnitude of free stream velocity, the results show that the heat transfer may enhance up to 22% or decrease about -7% by using nanofluids compared to the pure base fluid.