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Enhancing thermal conductivity of fluids with nano-particles
Stephen U. S. Choi
- Vol. 231, pp 99-105
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Experimental determination of thermal conductivity and dynamic viscosity of Ag–MgO/water hybrid nanofluid
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of nanoparticle volume fraction on thermal conductivity and dynamic viscosity of Ag-MgO/water hybrid nanofluid with the particle diameter of 40(mgO) and 25(Ag) nm was investigated.
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Effect of interfacial nanolayer on the effective thermal conductivity of nanoparticle-fluid mixture
TL;DR: In this article, an expression for calculating enhanced thermal conductivity of nanofluid has been derived from the general solution of heat conduction equation in spherical coordinates and the equivalent hard sphere fluid model representing the microstructure of particle/liquid mixtures.
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Effects of inclination angle on natural convection in enclosures filled with Cu–water nanofluid
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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of inclination angle on convection heat transfer and fluid flow in a two-dimensional enclosure filled with Cu-nanofluid has been analyzed numerically.
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Heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop characteristics of TiO2–water nanofluid in a double-tube counter flow heat exchanger
TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental study on the forced convective heat transfer and flow characteristics of a nanofluid consisting of water and 0.2 vol.% TiO2 nanoparticles was performed.
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Effective thermal conductivity of aqueous suspensions of carbon nanotubes (carbon nanotube nanofluids)
Dongsheng Wen,Yulong Ding +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of concentration of carbon nanotubes and temperature on effective thermal conductivity were investigated, and it was found that effective thermal conduction increased with increasing concentration of the carbon-nanotubes, and the dependence was nonlinear even at very low concentrations.
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