Experimental investigation of viscosity and specific heat of silicon dioxide nanofluids

Micro and Nano Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 67-71

  Namburu, P K ^a   Kulkarni, D P ^a   Dandekar, A ^a   Das, D K ^a  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE GLYCOL; NANOFLUIDICS; RHEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VISCOSITY;

NON-NEWTONIAN BEHAVIOUR; PARTICLE VOLUME PERCENTAGES;

SILICA;

ETHYLENE GLYCOL; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW KINETICS; HEAT; NANOFLUIDICS; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34848822926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/mnl:20070037     Document Type: Article

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