Molecular dynamics simulation of nanofluid's effective thermal conductivity in high-shear-rate Couette flow

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2560-2567

  Sun, Chengzhen ^a,b   Lu, Wen Qiang ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Bai, Bofeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Couette flow; Effective thermal conductivity; Microconvection; Modified Lees Edwards periodic boundary; Nanofluid

Indexed keywords

COUETTE FLOWS; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; MICROCONVECTION; NANO-FLUID; PERIODIC BOUNDARIES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES; ROTATION; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TITRATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 79953049402     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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