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Study of heat transfer due to laminar flow of copper–water nanofluid through two isothermally heated parallel plates
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In this paper, the thermal conductivity of nanofluid has been determined by model proposed by Patel et al. and the fluid was considered as Newtonian as well as non-Newtonian for a wide range of Reynolds number (Re = 5 to 1500) and solid volume fraction (0.00 ⩽ ϕ⩽ 0.050 ).About:
This article is published in International Journal of Thermal Sciences.The article was published on 2009-02-01. It has received 322 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nanofluid & Convective heat transfer.read more
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A review on the applications of nanofluids in solar energy systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the applications of nanofluids on different types of solar collectors, photovoltaic systems and solar thermoelectrics are reviewed, and the efforts done on the energy storage system (ESS) have been reviewed.
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Numerical study of mixed convection flows in a square lid-driven cavity utilizing nanofluid
TL;DR: In this article, a numerical investigation of laminar mixed convection flows through a copper-water nanofluid in a square lid-driven cavity has been executed, where the top and bottom horizontal walls are insulated while the vertical walls are maintained at constant but different temperatures.
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Mixed convection of copper-water nanofluid in a shallow inclined lid driven cavity using the lattice Boltzmann method
Arash Karimipour,Mohammad Hemmat Esfe,Mohammad Reza Safaei,Davood Toghraie Semiromi,Saeed Jafari,Salim Newaz Kazi +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of different values of the cavity inclination angle and nanoparticles volume fraction at three states of free, force and mixed convection domination are investigated while the Reynolds number is kept fixed as Re = 100 and Re = 10.
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Eulerian–Eulerian two-phase numerical simulation of nanofluid laminar forced convection in a microchannel
TL;DR: In this paper, an Eulerian two-fluid model is considered to simulate the nanofluid flow inside the microchannel and the governing mass, momentum and energy equations for both phases are solved using the finite volume method.
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Experimental and numerical investigation of nanofluid forced convection inside a wide microchannel heat sink
Mohammad Kalteh,Abbas Abbassi,Majid Saffar-Avval,Ajh Arjan Frijns,AA Anton Darhuber,Jdr Jens Harting +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the laminar convective heat transfer of an alumina-water nanofluid flow inside a wide rectangular microchannel heat sink (94.3mm, 28.1mm and 580μm; length, width and height, respectively) both numerically and experimentally was studied.
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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.