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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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Simultaneous effect of staggered baffles and dispersed nanoparticles on thermal performance of a cooling channel
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of nanoparticles, Reynolds number and baffle height on the velocity and temperature fields, heat transfer rate, pressure drop and hydrothermal performance of the baffled channel is numerically investigated and the contours of nanoparticle distribution provided.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined steady convection heat transfer and entropy generation in a wavy cubical container with Al2O3-water nanofluid and the solid cylinder.
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Energy recovery at thermodynamic expansion and thermal boosting through convection in flat plate solar thermal systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the phase change materials (PCM) based latent heat storage (LHS) system is proposed to provide a viable solution to respond to varying levels of solar energy.
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Hydrothermal characteristics of a double flow parabolic trough solar collector equipped with sinusoidal-wavy grooved absorber tube and twisted tape insert
TL;DR: In this article, a double flow Parabolic Trough Solar Collector (PTSC) with sinusoidal-wavy grooved absorber tube and twisted tape insert filled with nanofluid was investigated.
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Melting MHD Stagnation Point Flow and Heat Transfer of a Nano fluid with Non-linear Thermal Radiation and Chemical Reaction
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect on speed, temperature and concentrate profiles of dissolving heat action, Prandtl number, material reaction, warm radiation and Schmidt number, similar to bountiful significant boundaries, is studied graphically.
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A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
TL;DR: The most influential nineteenth-century scientist for twentieth-century physics, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) demonstrated that electricity, magnetism and light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon: the electromagnetic field as discussed by the authors.
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Investigation on Convective Heat Transfer and Flow Features of Nanofluids
Yimin Xuan,Qiang Li +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an innovative new class of heat transfer fluids can be engineered by suspending metallic nanoparticles in conventional heat-transfer fluids, which are expected to exhibit high thermal conductivities compared to those of currently used heat transfer fluid, and they represent the best hope for enhancing heat transfer.
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Hydrodynamic and heat transfer study of dispersed fluids with submicron metallic oxide particles
Bock Choon Pak,Young I. Cho +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a Brookfield rotating viscometer to measure the viscosities of the dispersed fluids with γ-alumina (Al2O3) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) particles at a 10% volume concentration.
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The Viscosity of Concentrated Suspensions and Solutions
TL;DR: In this paper, an expression for the viscosity of solutions and suspensions of finite concentration is derived by considering the effect of the addition of one solute-molecule to an existing solution, which is considered as a continuous medium.