Predicting the effective thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube based nanofluids

Nanotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Venkata Sastry, N N ^a   Bhunia, Avijit ^a,b   Sundararajan, T ^a   Das, Sarit K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

BASE LIQUID; NANOFLUIDS; PERCOLATING CHAIN;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; HEAT TOLERANCE; NANOFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 38349078270     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/05/055704     Document Type: Article

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