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Enhancing thermal conductivity of fluids with nano-particles

Stephen U. S. Choi
01 Jan 1995-Vol. 231, pp 99-105
About: The article was published on 1995-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7263 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermal conductivity & Nanoparticle.
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Experimental study of critical heat flux enhancement during forced convective flow boiling of nanofluid on a short heated surface

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Ho Seon Ahn1, Hyungdae Kim2, HangJin Jo1, SoonHo Kang1, WonPyo Chang, Moo Hwan Kim1 •
Pohang University of Science and Technology1, Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
01 May 2010-International Journal of Multiphase Flow
TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental study on critical heat flux (CHF) enhancements of nanofluids under convective flow conditions was performed, where a 10 mm-diameter disk-type copper surface was placed at the bottom surface of the flow channel as a test heater.

134 citations

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  • ...These fluids have been studied in various fields of thermal engineering since Choi (1995) showed abnormally improved thermal properties of nanofluids....

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Effect of nanoparticle shapes on the heat transfer enhancement in a wavy channel with different phase shifts

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Shayan Mokhtarpour Vanaki1, Hussein A. Mohammed1, Ayoub Abdollahi1, Mazlan Abdul Wahid1•
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia1
01 Aug 2014-Journal of Molecular Liquids
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical investigation is performed to study the effects of different nanofluids on the thermal and flow fields through transversely wavy wall channels with different phase shifts between the upper and lower wavy walls.

134 citations

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Heat transfer performance and exergy analyses of a corrugated plate heat exchanger using metal oxide nanofluids

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M.A. Khairul1, Mohammad A. Alim1, I.M. Mahbubul1, Rahman Saidur1, Arif Hepbasli2, Altab Hossain1 •
University of Malaya1, Yaşar University2
01 Jan 2014-International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of water and CuO/water nanofluids (as coolants) on heat transfer coefficient, heat transfer rate, frictional loss, pressure drop, pumping power and exergy destruction in the corrugated plate heat exchanger were examined.

134 citations

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  • ...Nanometer sized solid particles suspended in the advanced heat transfer fluids are called ‘nanofluids’ which was invented by Choi [2]....

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Heat Transfer in Nanofluids

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Oronzio Manca1, Yogesh Jaluria2, Dimos Poulikakos3•
Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli1, Rutgers University2, ETH Zurich3
01 Jan 2010-Advances in Mechanical Engineering
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model of the thermodynamics in emerging technologies in the context of aerospace and energy management systems, which is based on the work of the Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli.
Abstract: 1Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale e Meccanica, Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli, Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa, Italy 2Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8554, USA 3Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

133 citations

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  • ...Nanofluids, which are a colloidal mixture of nanoparticles (1–100 nm) and a base liquid (nanoparticle fluid suspensions), is the term first coined by Choi in 1995 [1] at the Argonne National Laboratory to describe the new class of nanotechnology-based heat transfer fluids that exhibit thermal properties superior to those of their base fluids or conventional particle fluid suspensions....

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A novel comprehensive experimental study concerned synthesizes and prepare liquid paraffin-Fe3O4 mixture to develop models for both thermal conductivity & viscosity: A new approach of GMDH type of neural network

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Amin Shahsavar1, Shoaib Khanmohammadi1, Arash Karimipour2, Marjan Goodarzi3•
Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences1, Islamic Azad University2, Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment3
01 Mar 2019-International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of volume concentration of Fe3O4 nanoparticles and temperature on the viscosity and thermal conductivity of liquid paraffin based nanofluid was analyzed.

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