Asst. Prof. Dr. Farhan Lafta Rashid, who is one of the teaching staff members- Department of Petroleum Engineering – Kerbala University, and in partnership with the Asst. Lect. Zina Ali Abdul-Ridha – the Energy Engineering Department – University of Baghdad, have published their scientific research in the International Journal of Heat and Technology within Scopus containers.
The research is entitled ” Heat Transfer Enhancement in Subchannel Geometry of Pressurized Water Reactor Using Water-Based Yttrium Oxide Nanofluid”. The study states that that simulation of computational fluid dynamic is applied to present the thermal performance of water-based Yttrium oxide nanofluid in subchannel of pressurized water reactor (PWR) system.
It concludes that the addition of Yttrium oxide nanoparticles to the coolant fluid in pressurized water reactor led to increase in convective heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop.
