Role of Brownian motion hydrodynamics on nanofluid thermal conductivity

By W. Evans, Jacob Fish, Pawel Keblinski. 2006

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics

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A Review of Thermal Conductivity Data, Mechanisms and Models for Nanofluids (2010, methodology): “[92] carried out both an analysis with kinetic theory and the simulation to investigate the effect of the Brownian motion on the effective thermal conductivity of nanofluids.”
A critical synthesis of thermophysical characteristics of nanofluids (2011, methodology): “[32] had also demonstrated that the hydrodynamics effects associated with Brownian motion have a minor effect on the thermal conductivity of the nanofluid using the molecular dynamics simulations and the simple kinetic theory.”
Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for nanofluids (2012, background): “[41] also showed that Brownian motion induces only small augmentation in the conductivity compared to other effects.”
Review of convective heat transfer enhancement with nanofluids (2009, background): “Some of these simulations dealt with the effective thermal conductivity of nanofluids [33,34] or effective viscosity [35] and most of them focuses on the heat transfer of nanofluids [36–60].”
A review on development of nanofluid preparation and characterization (2009, background): “[52] presented a kinetic theory based analysis and molecular dynamics simulations and led to a conclusion that the thermal conductivity of nanofluids with well dispersed nanoparticles was well described by the effective medium theory and did not show any significant enhancements due to effects assoc”
Enhanced thermal conductivity of nanofluids: a state-of-the-art review (2010, methodology): “In addition to the theoretical work, Evans et al. (2008) also determined the effective thermal conductivity of the nanofluid by utilizing a Monte Carlo simulation.”
A review on nanofluids - part I: theoretical and numerical investigations (2008, background): “Evans et al. (2006) suggested that the contribution of Brownian motion to the thermal conductivity of the nanofluid is very small and cannot be responsible for the extraordinary thermal transport properties of nanofluids.”