Simulation of thermal conductivity of nanofluids using dissipative particle dynamics

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 323-337

  Yamada, Toru ^a   Asako, Yutaka ^b   Gregory, Otto J ^a   Faghri, Mohammad ^a  

^a The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY EQUATION; ENERGY-CONSERVING; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; INTERFACIAL THERMAL RESISTANCE; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; PARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84857409161     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2011.648058     Document Type: Article

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