Natural convection of Cu-Gallium nanofluid in enclosures

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Qi, Cong ^a   He, Yurong ^a   Hu, Yanwei ^a   Yang, Juancheng ^a   Li, Fengchen ^a   Ding, Yulong ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aspect ratios; convection heat transfer; Cu gallium nanofluid; enclosure; Grashof number; volume fractions

Indexed keywords

GRASHOF; HEATED ENCLOSURES; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HIGH VELOCITY; LOW ASPECT RATIO; LOW VELOCITIES; NANO-FLUID; SINGLE-PHASE MODEL; SMALL ASPECT RATIO; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY VECTORS;

ENCLOSURES; GALLIUM; GRASHOF NUMBER; NANOFLUIDICS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TITRATION; VISCOSITY;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 80054032361     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004431     Document Type: Article

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