Critical investigation of heat transfer enhancement using nanofluids in microchannels with slip and non-slip flow regimes

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 556-565

  Akbarinia, A ^a,b   Abdolzadeh, M ^c   Laur, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering   (Iran)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Microchannel; Microfluidic; Nanofluid; Reynolds number; Slip flow

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DATA; BROWNIAN MOTION; ENERGY EQUATION; FLOW STUDIES; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; INLET VELOCITY; KINEMATIC VISCOSITY; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUID FLOW; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; NAVIER STOKES; RECTANGULAR MICROCHANNELS; REYNOLDS; SLIP FLOW; SLIP FLOW REGIMES; SLIP VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE BOUNDARY;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FRICTION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; INLET FLOW; KINEMATICS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TITRATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; VOLUME FRACTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 78649974542     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2010.10.017     Document Type: Article

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