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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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High efficiency nanofluid cooling system for wind turbines
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a cooling system for wind turbines with the use of nanofluids and the wind turbine tower as a heat exchanger to dissipate waste heat in the environment.
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The lattice Boltzmann investigation of natural convection for nanofluid based battery thermal management
Fanchen Wu,Zhonghao Rao +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for Cu-water nanofluid-based BTM is applied to simulate the natural convection, and a validation has been implemented by solving a hollow cylinder with a uniformly distributed heat boundary.
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Effect of boundary conditions on heat transfer and entropy generation during two-phase mixed convection hybrid Al2O3-Cu/water nanofluid flow in a cavity
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of three different boundary conditions on the fluid flow and heat transfer is analyzed for mixed convection in a differentially heated double sided lid-driven square cavity.
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Three-dimensional analysis of magnetohydrodynamic transverse mixed convection of nanofluid inside a lid-driven enclosure using MRT-LBM
Kasra Ghasemi,Majid Siavashi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an in-house parallel multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method (MRT-LBM) code is developed to resolve and investigate the mixed convection magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) Cu-water nanofluid flow inside a three-dimensional enclosure with lid-driven walls.
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Experimental and numerical investigations of turbulent forced convection flow of nano-fluid in helical coiled tubes at constant surface temperature
TL;DR: In this paper, steady state turbulent forced convection developing flow of a CuO nano-fluid inside helically coiled tubes at constant wall surface temperature was investigated both numerically and experimentally.
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Investigation on Convective Heat Transfer and Flow Features of Nanofluids
Yimin Xuan,Qiang Li +1 more
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The Viscosity of Concentrated Suspensions and Solutions
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