Determination of rheological behavior of aluminum oxide nanofluid and development of new viscosity correlations

Petroleum Science and Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1757-1770

  Sahoo, B C ^a   Vajjha, R S ^a   Ganguli, R ^a   Chukwu, G A ^a   Das, D K ^a  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum oxide; Ethylene glycol; Nanofluids; Particle concentration; Temperature dependency; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ALUMINUM OXIDES; NANOFLUIDS; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCY;

ALUMINUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; OXIDES; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 74549135658     PISSN: 10916466     EISSN: 15322459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10916460802640241     Document Type: Article

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