Convective heat transfer of alumina nanofluids in a microchannel

2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC 14

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 585-589

  Vafaei, Saeid ^a   Wen, Dongsheng ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ALUMINA; AXIAL DISTANCE; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW REGIMES; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; MASS FLOW RATE; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS;

ALUMINA; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROCHANNELS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84860520928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IHTC14-22206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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