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Investigation on characteristics of thermal conductivity enhancement of nanofluids

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In this paper, the thermal conductivity enhancement of water-based MWCNT nanofluid is increased up to 11.3% at a volume fraction of 0.01.
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This article is published in Current Applied Physics.The article was published on 2006-10-01. It has received 389 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nanofluid & Thermal conductivity.

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Nanofluid Assisted-Chemical Oil Recovery Process at High Temperature and High Salinity Conditions: Nanofluid Stability, Interfacial Tension, Contact Angle, Microscale Experimental Investigation

TL;DR: In this paper , the stability of various nanoparticles, Al 2 O 3 , SiO 2, ZrO 2 , TiO 2 and Fe 2 O3 , nanoclay, and ZnO, were examined upon the concentration (0.01 to 3 wt), temperature (ambient and 75℃), salinity (20,000 to 80,000 ppm), pH (2 to 12), and stabilizers of polyethylene glycol, polyvinylpyrrolidone, guar gum, Triton X-100, sodium dodecyl sulfate, cetrimonium bromide.
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Cooling Performance of Liquid CPU Cooler using Water/PG-based $Al_2O_3$ Nanofluids

TL;DR: In this article, the cooling performance of a liquid CPU cooler using the water/propylene glycol (PG)-based nanofluids is experimentally investigated, and it is shown that performance can be improved up to 8.6% at 0.25 Vol.
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Synthesis and characterization of nanofluids for oilfield applications

TL;DR: In this article , the various methods to synthesize nanofluids for subsurface applications, the types of nanoparticles in current use, and various factors responsible for the changes in nanofluid stability.
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The Development of a Microfabricated Transient Planar Source (TPS) Sensor for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids

TL;DR: In this article, the Transient Planar Source (TPS) method is used to measure the thermal conductivity of a nanofluid, where the TPS sensing element consists of a heat source and a temperature sensor.
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Anomalously increased effective thermal conductivities of ethylene glycol-based nanofluids containing copper nanoparticles

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that a "nanofluid" consisting of copper nanometer-sized particles dispersed in ethylene glycol has a much higher effective thermal conductivity than either pure or pure glycol or even polyethylene glycol containing the same volume fraction of dispersed oxide nanoparticles.
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Thermal transport measurements of individual multiwalled nanotubes.

TL;DR: The thermal conductivity and thermoelectric power of a single carbon nanotube were measured using a microfabricated suspended device and shows linear temperature dependence with a value of 80 microV/K at room temperature.
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Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Fluids Containing Oxide Nanoparticles

TL;DR: In this paper, a transient hot-wire method was used to measure the thermal conductivity of a small amount of nanoparticles and the experimental results showed that these nanoparticles have substantially higher thermal conductivities than the same liquids without nanoparticles.
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Anomalous thermal conductivity enhancement in nanotube suspensions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have produced nanotube-in-oil suspensions and measured their effective thermal conductivity, which is anomalously greater than theoretical predictions and is nonlinear with nanotubes loadings.
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