BIBLIOS

Document type
Journal articles

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
Understanding Stability, Measurements, and Mechanisms of Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids

Participants in the publication
CarlosA. Nieto de Castro (Author)
Dep. Química e Bioquímica
CQE
SaloméI. C. Vieira (Author)
Dep. Química e Bioquímica
MariaJ. Lourenço (Author)
Dep. Química e Bioquímica
CQE
S. M. Sohel Murshed (Author)
Dep. Química e Bioquímica
CQE

Summary
In the last two decades, the development of nanofluids led to many attempts to apply efficiently the discovered enhancements in thermal conductivity caused by the presence of nanoparticles \\n(d <100 nm) in the common heat transfer liquids, from low to moderate temperatures. However, the needs to obtain data for several systems led the researchers to many artificial conclusions that differ from laboratory to laboratory and, sometimes, in the same laboratory. The main problems are the preparation of the nanofluids, the characterization of the nanoparticles employed, and the instrumentation used to measure thermal conductivity. In addition, the understanding of the structures of nanofluids, namely the interaction of the nanoparticles with the bulk base fluid is fundamental particularly the characteristics and size (extension in space) of interface (nanoparticle/fluid), as the most significant theories of heat transfer in nanofluids are strongly dependent on them.


Institution
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

Where published
Journal of Nanofluids

Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 2169-432X

Publisher
American Scientific Publishers



Document Identifiers
URL - http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jon.2017.1388
DOI - https://doi.org/10.1166/jon.2017.1388

Rankings
SCIMAGO Q2 (2018) - 0.289 - Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

Keywords
Thermal conductivity Nanofluids Stability Interfacial thermal conductivity Brownian motion

Notes
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