Convective heat transfer of aqueous alumina nanosuspensions in a horizontal mini-channel

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 349-357

  Vafaei, Saeid ^a,b   Wen, Dongsheng ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ALUMINA; AXIAL DISTANCE; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW REGIMES; HIGH-FLOW RATE; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; MASS FLOW RATE; MINI CHANNELS; NANO-SUSPENSIONS; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY;

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

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84861527093     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-011-0887-4     Document Type: Article

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