Thermal conductance of nanofluids: is the controversy over?

By Pawel Keblinski, Ravi S. Prasher, Jacob Eapen. 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Thermophysical properties of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes and its effect on exergy efficiency of a flat plate solar collector (2015, background): “With regards to thermal engineering applications, enhancement of upto 60% in thermal conductivity for water based nanofluids was reported in literature (Keblinski et al., 2008; Yu et al., 2008).”
Metal oxide-based nanoparticles: revealing their potential to enhance oil recovery in different wettability systems (2015, background): “Metal oxide-based nanofluids are frequently used for thermal conductivity and heat transfer (Fedele et al. 2011; Keblinski et al. 2008; Yu et al. 2008).”
Blasius and Sakiadis problems in nanofluids (2011, neutral): “[7,8] and Prasher et al.”
Small particles, big impacts: A review of the diverse applications of nanofluids (2013, background): “significantly increased conductive [3–24][38-58] and convective [59-68] heat transfer properties.”
A comprehensive review of thermo-physical properties and convective heat transfer to nanofluids (2015, background): “Keblinski [226] argued that the conventional method of comparing the measured thermal conductance of nanofluid with the classical effective medium theory has generated misconception among researchers.”
A Review of Thermal Conductivity Data, Mechanisms and Models for Nanofluids (2010, methodology): “used the HS bounds to show that the well-established effective medium theories are capable of explaining nearly all the published thermal conductivity data for nanofluids without resorting to new mechanisms [104].”
Enhancement of specific heat capacity of high-temperature silica-nanofluids synthesized in alkali chloride salt eutectics for solar thermal-energy storage applications (2011, background): “Recent studies proposed that percolation network within cluster of nanoparticles due to aggregation may be primarily responsible for the enhancement of the nanofluids [18] [19].”