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Empirical correlating equations for predicting the effective thermal conductivity and dynamic viscosity of nanofluids
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In this article, two empirical correlations for predicting the effective thermal conductivity and dynamic viscosity of nanofluids, based on a high number of experimental data available in the literature, are proposed and discussed.About:
This article is published in Energy Conversion and Management.The article was published on 2011-01-01. It has received 971 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nanofluid & Volume fraction.read more
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Magneto hydrodynamic convection in a nanofluid saturated enclosure with porous fins: Joint effects of MHD, nanoparticles, and porous morphology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Darcy-Forchheimer model based on representative element-averaging method to evaluate the effective thermal conductivity and dynamic viscosity of a differentially heated enclosure with various fin morphologies.
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Two-phase computation of free convection and entropy generation inside an enclosure filled by a hybrid Al2O3-TiO2-Cu water nanofluid having a corrugated heat source using the generalized Buongiorno’s mathematical model: Employment of finite volume method
TL;DR: In this article, the entropy generation and natural convection of hybrid nanofluid (A l 2 O 3 - Ti O 2 - Cu and Water) in an enclosure containing a central wavy heated source using the generalized Buongiorno's mathematical model has been used to discretize the governing equations.
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Motion of circular cylinders during natural convection flow in X-shaped cavity filled with a nanofluid using ISPH method
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of the motion of circular cylinders on the natural convection flow from variable heated partitions inside the X-shaped cavity filled with Al2O3-water nanofluid was investigated.
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Heat transfer performance of closed conduit turbulent flow: constant mean velocity and temperature do matter
Mohd Nashrul Mohd Zubir,Mohd Ridha Muhamad,Ahmad Amiri,Ahmad Badarudin,Salim Newaz Kazi,C.S. Oon,Hussein Togun Abdullah,Samira Gharehkhani,Hooman Yarmand +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of thermophysical properties of nanofluid in changing convective heat transfer and hydrodynamic performances in the conduit flow was investigated in a 2D pipe flow model assigned with specific boundaries while a set of constitutive equations based on finite volume approach were established to solve the model.
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MHD conjugate natural convection and entropy generation of a nanofluid filled square enclosure with multiple heat-generating elements in the presence of joule heating
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the MHD conjugate natural convective flow and heat transfer of TiO2-water nanofluid confined in a tilted square enclosure with multiple heat-generating and conducting solid elements.
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