Enhancing thermal conductivity of fluids with nano-particles
01 Jan 1995-Vol. 231, pp 99-105
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared CFD predictions of single-phase and three different two-phase models (volume of fluid, mixture, Eulerian) for laminar mixed convection of Al2O3-water nanofluids.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis has been carried out for the three dimensional flow of viscous nanofluid in the presence of partial slip and thermal radiation effects, where the flow is induced by a permeable stretching surface.
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...Few recent attempts about this topic can be mentioned by the investigations [1–10] and several references therein....
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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of functional covalent groups on the thermophysical properties of carbon nanotube base fluid was investigated experimentally, and it was found that increasing Reynolds number, Peclet number or fraction of nanomaterial would improve the heat transfer characteristics of the nanofluid.
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TL;DR: In this article, double stratification in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer flow of thixotropic nanofluid in presence of mixed convection is reported, and variations in dimensionless temperature and nanoparticle concentration profiles corresponding to multiple values of physical parameters are shown and analyzed through graphs.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the thermal conductivity, viscosity, density, and specific heat of Al2O3 nanoparticles dispersed into water and ethylene glycol based coolant used in car radiator was investigated.
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