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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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Heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids: a review

TL;DR: A review on fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids in forced and free convection flows is presented in this article, where the authors identify opportunities for future research.
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A review on applications and challenges of nanofluids

TL;DR: It has been found nan ofluids have a much higher and strongly temperature-dependent thermal conductivity at very low particle concentrations than conventional fluids, which can be considered as one of the key parameters for enhanced performances for many of the applications of nanofluids.
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Heat Transfer in Nanofluids—A Review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an exhaustive review of the literature in this area and suggest a direction for future developments, including heat transfer, material science, physics, chemical engineering and synthetic chemistry.
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A review of nanofluid stability properties and characterization in stationary conditions

TL;DR: In this article, the stability of nanofluids is discussed as it has a major role in heat transfer enhancement for further possible applications, and general stabilization methods as well as various types of instruments for stability inspection.
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Enhancement of heat transfer using nanofluids—An overview

TL;DR: A colloidal mixture of nano-sized particles in a base fluid, called nanofluids, tremendously enhances the heat transfer characteristics of the original fluid, and is ideally suited for practical applications due to its marvelous characteristics.
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Temperature sensor characteristics and measurement system design

TL;DR: How a microcomputer can be incorporated into these systems as a signal processing element to improve accuracy is described, in the case of the thermocouple, the computer solves a quartic equation to arrive at an improved estimate of temperature.
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