Thermal conductivity of nanofluids and size distribution of nanoparticles by Monte Carlo simulations

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1319-1328

  Feng, Yongjin ^a,b   Yu, Boming ^a   Feng, Kaiming ^b   Xu, Peng ^a   Zou, Mingqing ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTHWESTERN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Colloids; Fractals; Modelling; Monte Carlo simulation; Nanofluids; Nanoparticles; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; BROWNIAN MOTIONS; COLLOIDS; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FRACTAL CHARACTER; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; HIGH THERMAL; MICROCONVECTION; MODELLING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PROBABILITY MODELING; RANDOM NUMBERS; SOLID-LIQUID;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; COLLOID; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOFLUIDICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SYSTEMS THEORY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 48949107013     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-008-9363-6     Document Type: Article

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