Jacopo Buongiorno

TL;DR: Kim et al. as discussed by the authors used a confocal microscopy-based examination of the test section revealed that nanoparticle deposition on the boiling surface occurred during nanofluid boiling, but no definitive correlation between the nucleation site density and the heat transfer coefficient data could be found.

TL;DR: In this paper, a concentrating solar power system is presented which uses hillside mounted heliostats to direct sunlight into a volumetric absorption molten salt receiver with integral storage, and the concentrated sunlight penetrates and is absorbed by molten salt in the receiver through a depth of 4-5m, making the system insensitive to the passage of clouds.

TL;DR: In this article, the quenching characteristics of metallic rodlets and spheres were investigated in pure water and water-based nanofluids with alumina nanoparticles of 0.1% by volume.

TL;DR: This article examined the influence of particle shape and concentration on the viscosity of colloidal dispersions collected as part of the International Nanofluid Property Benchmark Exercise (INPBE).

TL;DR: It was found that a porous layer of nanoparticles built up on the heater surface during nucleate boiling, which improved surface wettability compared with the water-boiled surfaces, and was possible to correlate to the experimentally observed reductions in the bubble departure frequency, NSD, and ultimately to the deterioration in theucleate boiling heat transfer and the CHF enhancement.