Measurements of nanofluid viscosity and its implications for thermal applications

By Ravi S. Prasher, D. Song, Jinlin Wang, Patrick E. Phelan. 2006

819 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f3d84c8e519cd34c486c03deb33a20a7df4ded6a

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Biomedical Engineering

1. R. Saidur
2. K. V. Sharma
3. Somchai Wongwises
4. I. Mahbubul
5. R. Mamat
6. Ali J. Chamkha
7. Ioan Pop
8. Yulong Ding

In Mechanical Engineering

1. R. Saidur
2. K. V. Sharma
3. Somchai Wongwises
4. I. Mahbubul
5. R. Mamat
6. Ali J. Chamkha
7. Ioan Pop
8. Y. Sekhar

Citations in the corpus

• A new model for calculating the effective viscosity of nanofluids (2009, background): “However, very few experimental studies have been devoted to the nanofluid viscosity [16–22].”
• A comprehensive review of thermo-physical properties and convective heat transfer to nanofluids (2015, background): “Classifying nanofluids as non-Newtonian fluids is an intensely debated subject within the academic field [236,237,241].”
• Thermal conductivity and viscosity of stabilized ethylene glycol and water mixture Al2O3 nanofluids for heat transfer applications: An experimental study☆ (2014, background): “[29] model and Mouromtseff number (Simons [30]).”
• Experimental study on thermophysical properties of nanofluids as phase-change material (PCM) in low temperature cool storage (2012, result): “The viscosity of nanofluids increases with increasing the volume fraction in agreement with other studies [48–50].”
• Entropy generation due to flow and heat transfer in nanofluids (2010, background): “[7] were the first to analyze the NF flow theoretically.”
• Viscosity Measurements on Colloidal Dispersions (Nanofluids) for Heat Transfer Applications (2010, background): “As noted in the introduction, criteria for the overall effectiveness of nanofluids as heat transfer fluids have been proposed [9, 12], which suggest [h] should be 4 5 times smaller than [k].”
• Experimental Investigation of Thermal Conductivity and Electrical Conductivity of Al2O3 Nanofluid in Water - Ethylene Glycol Mixture for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Application (2015, background): “Prasher [15] studied that the enhancement of viscosity has to be lower than 4 compared to thermal conductivity in laminar range, while Garg [16] specified the feasible limit to 5 in turbulentflow.”