Stability and rheology of dilute TiO2-water nanofluids

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Penkavova, Vera ^a   Tihon, Jaroslav ^a   Wein, Ondrej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDITY; HEAT TRANSFER; NANOFLUIDICS; OXIDE MINERALS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZETA POTENTIAL;

AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS; COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; CONFINED GEOMETRIES; DISPERSED PHASE; NEWTONIAN BEHAVIOR; SLIP COEFFICIENTS; VISCOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; WATER NANOFLUIDS; NANO POWDERS; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; TIO; WALL SLIP;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE; NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84255168572     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-273     Document Type: Article

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