Analysis of convective instability and heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids

By Jake Kim, Y. Kang, C. Choi. 2004

311 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Ali J. Chamkha
2. E. Abu‐Nada
3. Ioan Pop
4. Somchai Wongwises
5. Mohsen Sheikholeslami
6. Kambiz Vafai
7. Khalil Khanafer
8. R. Saidur

In Mechanical Engineering

1. E. Abu‐Nada
2. Ali J. Chamkha
3. Somchai Wongwises
4. Ioan Pop
5. Kambiz Vafai
6. Khalil Khanafer
7. Mohsen Sheikholeslami
8. Arun Sadashiv Mujumdar

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. S. Jang
2. Arun Sadashiv Mujumdar
3. Kambiz Vafai
4. Khalil Khanafer
5. G. Kefayati
6. Ji-Hwan Lee
7. Xiangrong Wang
8. Stephen U. S. Choi

Citations in the corpus

• Natural convection of nanofluids in a shallow cavity heated from below (2011, background): “[9] on the basis of a factor which measures the ratio of the Rayleigh number of a nanofluid to that of a base fluid.”
• FINITE DIFFERENCE SOLUTION OF MHD RADIATIVE BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW OF A NANOFLUID PAST A STRETCHING SHEET (2010, methodology): “Choi [5] was the first author who studied nanoparticles.”
• Critical review of heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids (2007, background): “With respect to the particle volume fraction, as the heat capacity and density of nanoparticles increased and the shape factor and the thermal conductivity decreased, the convective motion set in easily [24].”
• Lattice Boltzmann simulation of natural convection in tall enclosures using water/SiO2 nanofluid (2011, result): “[20] analytically researched the convective instability driven by buoyancy and heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids with theoretical models which are used to estimate properties of nanofluids and indicated that as the thermal conductivity and shape factor of nanoparticles decrease, the convec”
• 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, unknown): “Kim's [87] paper also reveals this conclusion.”
• Heat Transfer in Nanofluids—A Review (2006, background): “[88] analytically investigated convective instability driven by buoyancy and heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids.”
• A critical synthesis of thermophysical characteristics of nanofluids (2011, background): “[23] proposed a factor which described the effect of nanoparticle addition on the convective instability and heat transfer characteristics of a base fluid.”