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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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Forced Convective Heat Transfer of Nanofluids Around a Circular Bluff Body with the Effects of Slip Velocity using a Multi-phase Mixture Model
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of slip velocity, volume concentration and diameter of nanoparticles on heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids have been numerically analyzed employing a mixture model based multi-phase modeling (MPM) approach.
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Development of CuO–ethylene glycol nanofluids for efficient energy management: Assessment of potential for energy recovery
TL;DR: In this article, cupric oxide nanoparticles have been synthesized followed by dispersion in ethylene glycol through extended probe ultrasonication without addition of chemical dispersing agent.
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Nanofluid natural convection in a corrugated solar power plant using the hybrid LBM-TVD method
TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid Lattice Boltzmannian method with using Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) method was developed to investigate the nanofluid heat transfer in a triangle solar collector with corrugated bottom wall.
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Natural convection of [Formula: see text]-water nanofluid in a non-Darcian wavy porous cavity under the local thermal non-equilibrium condition.
TL;DR: The findings indicate that the heater length, its position, and the waves number on the side vertical walls as well as the nanoparticles concentration can be the control parameters for free convective motion and heat transport within the wavy cavity.
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Toward TiO2 Nanofluids-Part 2: Applications and Challenges.
TL;DR: It is expected that the two exhaustive reviews could be a helpful reference guide for researchers to update the knowledge on research status of TiO2 nanofluids, and the critical comments, challenges, and recommendations could be useful for future study directions.
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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.