Heat transfer modes enhancement by using magnetic nanofluids

Ferrofluids, a mixture of nonmagnetic fluids with magnetic nano-sized particles, offer advantages such as adjustable thermal conductivity and ability to be controlled via an external magnetic field. Although referred to as not a matter of life and death, ferrofluids have various medical applications which might serve as one soon. An example for promising medical application of nanofluids is cancer treatments, where external magnetic field is utilized to guide special magnetic nanoparticles directly to the malign tumors giving less harm to the surrounding tissues. Their not totally understood superiority for heat conductance also offers effective solutions for a variety of different cooling applications. This work focuses on investigation of flow characteristics of this new engineered fluids in channel flows. Study here involves numerical calculations rather then experimentation. Thus, efficient tools to solve the system equations plays a vital role. Nanoparticle specific properties of the flow has been simulated by the available emprical models in the literature.