Heat Transfer Enhancement: A Review of Ongoing Issues

Ranjan Kumar, Shreya Agarwal

In this paper, we discuss about various methods adopted by researchers around the world for heat transfer enhancement. Three major categories of heat transfer enhancement techniques viz. annihilation of thermal boundary layer, employment of magnetohydrodynamics flow and enhancement of critical heat flux during boiling are studied in brief. We also present about the advantages as well as drawbacks of each one of them. There are various field of application in the real world where these methods can be utilized, but each has its own limitations which we discuss in the current work. Through this work we put forward a well comprehension of the ongoing issues in heat transfer, thermal management and energy savings which are always the centre of attraction for the researchers from wide-ranging field in engineering.

https://dx.doi.org/10.31873/IJEAS.6.10.02