Heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids

By Yimin Xuan, Qiang Li. 2000

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics

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In Computational Mechanics

Citations in the corpus

Enhancement of specific heat capacity of high-temperature silica-nanofluids synthesized in alkali chloride salt eutectics for solar thermal-energy storage applications (2011, positive): “Xuan and Li [6] reported thermal conductivity enhancement of 54% for water based nanofluids using copper nanoparticles at 5% volume concentration.”
Lie Group Solution for Free Convective Flow of a Nanofluid Past a Chemically Reacting Horizontal Plate in a Porous Media (2014, background): “Researchers have observed that the thermal conductivity of a nanofluid is much higher than that of the base fluid even for low solid volume fraction of nanoparticles in the mixture [3–5].”
A critical review of convective heat transfer of nanofluids (2007, methodology): “Similar to the Xuan and Li model [ 8 ], the Hamilton and Crosser model [9] and Wasp model [10] for predicting the thermal conductivity of nanofluid give rough estimations.”
Numerical study of natural convection in partially heated rectangular enclosures filled with nanofluids (2008, background): “2006), convective heat transfer (Maiga et al, 2005; Abu-Nada, 2008), boiling heat transfer and natural convection (Xuan and Li, 2000).”
An experimental investigation into the thermal conductivity enhancement in oxide and metallic nanofluids (2010, background): “Subsequently, it was found ( Xuan and Li 2000; Eastman et al. 2001) that the enhancements in thermal conductivity of nanofluids with metallic nanoparticles are much higher, as compared to that of a macro-slurry of the same fluid and particle combination.”
Experimental investigation of silver nano-fluid on heat pipe thermal performance (2006, background): “A theoretical model and an experimental are proposed to describe heat transfer performance of nanofluid flowing in a tube, the experimental results illustrate that the thermal conductivity of nanofluids remarkably increases with the volume fraction of ultra-fine particles [ 8 ].”
Natural convection of nano-fluids (2003, methodology): “Further investigations by Xuan and Li [ 5 ] confirmed this observation and proved that existing models of thermal conductivity for slurries such as those of Maxwell [2], Hamilton-Crosser [6] or Wasp [7] fail to predict the enhancement of thermal conductivity of such fluids.”