Effective thermal conductivity of nanofluids: The effects of microstructure

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Fan, Jing ^a   Wang, Liqiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLUID CONDUCTIVITY; FLUID INTERFACIAL AREA; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; INTERFACIAL THERMAL RESISTANCE; MACRO SCALE; NANOFLUIDS; NONUNIFORM; PARTICLE AGGREGATION; PARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS; RADIUS OF GYRATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; THERMAL PROPERTIES;

FLUIDS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 77951004516     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/43/16/165501     Document Type: Article

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