Anomalous enhancement in thermal conductivity of nanofluid induced by solid walls in a nanochannel

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 3799-3805

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

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Molecular dynamics simulation; Nanochannel; Nanofluid; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL HEIGHT; CHANNEL WIDTHS; FLUID ATOMS; GREEN-KUBO FORMULA; MACRO SCALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO CHANNELS; NANOFLUID; NANOPARTICLE DIAMETER; SOLID BOUNDARIES; SOLID WALL; STRONG COUPLING INTERACTIONS; VOLUME FRACTION EFFECTS; Z-DIRECTIONS;

ATOMS; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; COUPLINGS; DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 80052940312     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.07.021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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