Performance evaluation on an air-cooled heat exchanger for alumina nanofluid under laminar flow

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-11

  Teng, Tun Ping ^a   Hung, Yi Hsuan ^a   Teng, Tun Chien ^a   Chen, Jyun Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alumina (Al 2o 3); Heat exchange capacity; Laminar flow; Nanofluid; Pressure drop

Indexed keywords

AIR-COOLED HEAT EXCHANGER; DIRECT SYNTHESIS METHOD; ELECTRONIC CHIP COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEAT EXCHANGE CAPACITY; MASS FLOW RATE; NANO-FLUID; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SAMPLE TEMPERATURE; WEIGHT FRACTIONS; WORKING FLUID;

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; ASPECT RATIO; COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COOLING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; LAMINAR FLOW; NANOPARTICLES; PRESSURE DROP; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84862909268     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-488     Document Type: Article

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