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Record W4407410925 · doi:10.1002/aesr.202400335

Sustainable Thermal Solutions: Enhancing Heat Transfer with Turbulators and Nanofluids

2025· article· en· W4407410925 on OpenAlex
Zafar Said, Aggrey Mwesigye, L. Syam Sundar, Arun Kumar Tiwari, Kalidasan Balasubramanian, Hafız Muhammad Ali, Evangelos Bellos, Chaerin Gim, Mohammad Shamsuddin Ahmed, Jang‐Yeon Hwang

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Bibliographic record

VenueAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicHeat Transfer and Optimization
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNanofluidTurbulatorHeat transferHeat transfer fluidMaterials scienceThermalThermodynamicsReynolds numberPhysics

Abstract

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Actual performance of heat transfer devices significantly influences the general efficiency of the energy conversion systems. Among all active and passive techniques of heat transfer enhancement, the current review has been focused on turbulators and their integration with nanofluids due to cost‐effectiveness and practicality. The turbulators like coiled tubes, extended fins, and swirl flow devices create local vortices to distort the fluid flow boundary layer, which results in an enhanced convective heat transfer process. Further, the use of nanofluids with improved thermophysical properties can also be considered to see the synergizing effect of turbulators for further enhancements in the heat transfer rates. The present review reflects that, among the different turbulators considered, the wire coil insertion offers better thermal efficiency with reduced pressure drops. Thus, the combined approach using nanofluids and turbulators has ample potential to attain higher heat transfer performance compared to conventional methods. Despite the great development, the full mechanism, especially with nanofluid interactions, is still not well elucidated. Current limitations and future research opportunities are highlighted in this review to emphasize that continuous studies are needed to optimize these techniques in order to have better energy systems.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.309
Threshold uncertainty score0.584

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.252 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it