Sheng-Qi Zhou

TL;DR: The International Nanofluid Property Benchmark Exercise (INPBE) as mentioned in this paper was held in 1998, where the thermal conductivity of identical samples of colloidally stable dispersions of nanoparticles or "nanofluids" was measured by over 30 organizations worldwide, using a variety of experimental approaches, including the transient hot wire method, steady state methods, and optical methods.

TL;DR: The International Nanofluid Property Benchmark Exercise (INPBE) as discussed by the authors was held in 1998, where the thermal conductivity of identical samples of colloidally stable dispersions of nanoparticles or "nanofluids" was measured by over 30 organizations worldwide, using a variety of experimental approaches, including the transient hot wire method, steady state methods, and optical methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the specific heat of water-based Al2O3 nanofluid with a differential scanning calorimeter was investigated and it was shown that the specific temperature decreases gradually as the nanoparticle volume fraction increases from 0.0% to 21.7%.

TL;DR: This work analyzes the reversals of the large-scale flow in Rayleigh-Bénard convection both through particle image velocimetry flow visualization and direct numerical simulations of the underlying Boussinesq equations in a (quasi-) two-dimensional, rectangular geometry of aspect ratio 1.

TL;DR: The study provides a direct confirmation that a rotatory mean wind indeed persists for the highest value of Ra reached in the experiment and reveals that the mean flow in the central region of the convection cell is of the shape of a coherent elliptical rotating core.