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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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A review on preparation, characterization, properties and applications of nanofluids
TL;DR: In this paper, the preparation of metal and metal oxides nanofluids and hybrid or composite nano-fluids is discussed, and various techniques used to study the physical and chemical characteristics of nanof-luids are presented.
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A review on thermophysical properties of nanofluids and heat transfer applications
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized the important results regarding the improvement in the thermophysical properties of nanofluids and identified the opportunities for future research in the field of nanophotonics.
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Review on thermal properties of nanofluids: Recent developments.
S. A. Angayarkanni,John Philip +1 more
TL;DR: The preparation of nanofluids by various techniques, methods of stabilization, stability measurement techniques, thermal conductivity and heat capacity studies, proposed mechanisms of heat transport, theoretical models on thermal Conductivity, factors influencing k and the effect of nanoinclusions in PCM are discussed in this review.
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A review of recent advances in thermophysical properties at the nanoscale: From solid state to colloids
Lin Qiu,Lin Qiu,Ning Zhu,Yanhui Feng,Efstathios E. Michaelides,Gaweł Żyła,Dengwei Jing,Xinxin Zhang,Pamela M. Norris,Christos N. Markides,Omid Mahian +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent advances in the measurement and modeling of thermophysical properties at the nanoscale (from the solid state to colloids) is presented, including thermal conductivity, dynamic viscosity, specific heat capacity, and density.
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A state of the art review on viscosity of nanofluids
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of research and development on rheological characteristics of nanofluids for their advanced heat transfer applications is performed and reported in this paper, which identifies the research anomaly and importance on this topic besides analysing rheology of nanophluids.
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A critical review of convective heat transfer of nanofluids
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the published subjects with respect to the forced convective heat transfer of the nanofluids both of experimental and numerical investigation, and they also evaluated the effective viscosity.
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Slow flow through stationary random beds and suspensions of spheres
TL;DR: In this article, a generalization of Brinkman's (1947) method, which is applicable to both stationary beds and suspensions, is presented, and an expression for the settling velocity is derived.
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Thermophysical and electrokinetic properties of nanofluids – A critical review
TL;DR: In this paper, various aspects of nanofluids including synthesis, potential applications, experimental and analytical studies on the effective thermal conductivity, effective thermal diffusivity, convective heat transfer, and electrokinetic properties are critically reviewed.
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Model for Heat Conduction in Nanofluids
D. Hemanth Kumar,Hrishikesh E. Patel,V. R. Rajeev Kumar,Thirumalachari Sundararajan,Thalappil Pradeep,Sarit K. Das +5 more
TL;DR: A moving particle model developed from the Stokes-Einstein formula explains the temperature effect and predictions from the combined model agree with the experimentally observed values of conductivity enhancement of nanofluids.
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Rheological behaviour of nanofluids
TL;DR: In this article, the experimental results show that the EG-based nanofluids are Newtonian under the conditions of this work with the shear viscosity as a strong function of temperature and particle concentration.