Xu Jie et al 2006 Chinese Phys. Lett. 23 2819 doi:10.1088/0256-307X/23/10/053
Xu Jie, Yu Bo-Ming and Yun Mei-Juan
Show affiliationsWe propose a new model for the effective thermal conductivities of nanofluids, which is derived from the fact that nanoparticles and clusters coexist in the fluids. The effects of the compactness and the perfectness of the contact between nanoparticles in clusters on the effective thermal conductivity of nanofluids are analysed. The proposed model indicates that the effective thermal conductivity of nanofluids decreases with the increasing concentration of clusters. The model predictions are compared with and are in good agreement with the available experimental data.
65.20.-w Thermal properties of liquids
Issue 10 (October 2006)
Received 26 June 2006
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