Effect of nanoconvection caused by Brownian motion on the enhancement of thermal conductivity in nanofluids

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1782-1789

  Azizian, Reza ^a   Doroodchi, Elham ^a   Moghtaderi, Behdad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DOMINANT MECHANISM; HEAT TRANSFER APPLICATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER FLUIDS; NANOFLUIDS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; VOLUME CONCENTRATION; WORKING FLUID;

ALUMINA; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; NANOFLUIDICS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 84856526720     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie201110k     Document Type: Article

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