A brief review on viscosity of nanofluids

By Purna Chandra Mishra, Sayantan Mukherjee, S. Nayak, A. Panda. International Nano Letters, 2014

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Since the past decade, rapid development in nanotechnology has produced several aspects for the scientists and technologists to look into. Nanofluid is one of the incredible outcomes of such advancement. Nanofluids (colloidal suspensions of metallic and nonmetallic nanoparticles in conventional base fluids) are best known for their remarkable change to enhanced heat transfer abilities. Earlier research work has already acutely focused on thermal conductivity of nanofluids. However, viscosity is another important property that needs the same attention due to its very crucial impact on heat transfer. Therefore, viscosity of nanofluids should be thoroughly investigated before use for practical heat transfer applications. In this contribution, a brief review on theoretical models is presented precisely. Furthermore, the effects of nanoparticles’ shape and size, temperature, volume concentration, pH, etc. are organized together and reviewed.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Effect of particle size on the viscosity of nanofluids: A review (2018, background): “Although, there are several reviews [25,28,30,38-47] which include the particle size effect as part of an overall nanofluid viscosity review, no review available completely focused on the effect of particle size on the viscosity of nanofluids.”