Heat transfer in nanoparticle suspensions: Modeling the thermal conductivity of nanofluids

AIChE Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3243-3256

  Warrier, Pramod ^a   Yuan, Yanhui ^a   Beck, Michael P ^a   Teja, Amyn S ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanofluids; Nanoparticles; Phonon scattering; Suspensions; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

DISPERSED PHASE; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE SUSPENSION; PARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS; SIZE DEPENDENCE; SUSPENSIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; PHONON SCATTERING; PHONONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 78349290763     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12228     Document Type: Article

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