...Yousef M. F. EL Hasadi; J. M. Khodadadi Development of the solid–liquid interface, distribution of the particle concentration field, as well as the development of thermosolutal convection during solidification of colloidal suspensions in a differentially heated cavity are investigated...

... and solidus temperatures of the mushy zone on the local concentration of the nanoparticles subject to a constant value of the segregation coefficient, thermal-solutal convection as well as the Brownian and thermophoretic effects are taken into account. A square cavity containing a suspension of copper...

... , L. , 2011 , “ Enhanced Thermal Conductivity and Expedited Freezing of Nanoparticle Suspensions Utilized as Novel Phase Change Materials ,” Ph.D. thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL. b thickness of a slab, mm L latent heat of fusion, J...

... fluids rather than like conventional solid–liquid mixtures. This assumption implies that all the convective heat transfer correlations available in the literature for single-phase flows can be extended to nanoparticle suspensions, provided that the thermophysical properties appearing in them...

...Frank Dammel; Peter Stephan The heat transfer to water-based suspensions of microencapsulated phase change material (MEPCM) flowing laminarly through rectangular copper minichannels was investigated both experimentally and numerically. The MEPCM-particles had an average size of 5 μm and contained...

...Satish Kandlikar; Moo-Hwan Kim; Peter Stephan 19 12 2011 boiling boundary layers heat transfer jets microchannel flow slip flow suspensions We are indeed delighted in bringing out this special issue highlighting some of the papers presented at the ASME Eighth International...

...K. Hari Krishna; Harish Ganapathy; G. Sateesh; Sarit K. Das Nanofluids, solid-liquid suspensions with solid particles of size of the order of few nanometers, have created interest in many researchers because of their enhancement in thermal conductivity and convective heat transfer characteristics...

...W. Escher; T. Brunschwiler; N. Shalkevich; A. Shalkevich; T. Burgi; B. Michel; D. Poulikakos Nanofluids have been proposed to improve the performance of microchannel heat sinks. In this paper, we present a systematic characterization of aqueous silica nanoparticle suspensions with concentrations up...

...Jing Fan; Liqiu Wang Nanofluids—fluid suspensions of nanometer-sized particles—are a very important area of emerging technology and are playing an increasingly important role in the continuing advances of nanotechnology and biotechnology worldwide. They have enormously exciting potential...

... colloids convection drops microchannel flow nanofluidics suspensions nanofluid colloidal suspensions thermal transport Marangoni effect droplet-laden flow segmented flow immiscible fluids Thermal management of microelectronic devices becomes more important and challenging as size...

... of the suspensions were shown to be in good agreement with calculations for a reasonable choice of interfacial resistance on the particle/liquid interface. The effect of particle aspect ratio on the suspension’s thermal conductivity was further demonstrated and compared with theory by reducing the nanotube length...

... . Since late 2007 we have been leading the International Nanofluid Property Benchmark Exercise, or INPBE, an initiative aimed at eliminating the many inconsistencies in the thermal conductivity database of colloidal suspensions of nanoparticles, also known as “nanofluids.” INPBE was supported by a grant...

... 2010 heat exchangers heat transfer lattice Boltzmann methods microchannel flow nanofluidics suspensions nanofluid heat transfer suspended particles lattice-Boltzmann method for heat transfer numerical simulation There are several applications in thermal systems such as heat...

... suspension in liquids. The present paper deals with the transport of thermal energy through the solid-liquid interfaces, and the goal is to find a molecular-scale mechanism that determines the macroscopic characteristics of the transport phenomena. Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations have been...

... enhancement. 14 04 2008 31 07 2008 13 02 2009 alumina boiling colloids diamond heat transfer nanoparticles suspensions water zinc compounds nanofluids critical heat flux flow boiling Nanofluids are dispersions, or colloidal suspensions, of nanoscale particles...

...Shuichi Torii; Wen-Jei Yang This paper aims to study the convective heat transfer behavior of aqueous suspensions of nanodiamond particles flowing through a horizontal tube heated under a constant heat flux condition. Consideration is given to the effects of particle concentration and Reynolds...

... . Peterson , G. P. , and Li , C. H. , 2006 , “ Heat and Mass Transfer in Fluids With Nanoparticle Suspensions ,” Adv. Heat Transfer 0065-2717 , 39 , pp. 257 – 376 . Das , S. K. , Choi , S. U. S. , Yu , W. H. , and Pradeep , T. , 2008 , Nanofluids: Science...

...Y. Sungtaek Ju; Jichul Kim; Ming-Tsung Hung We report measurements of the thermal conductivity of aqueous suspensions of aluminum oxide nanoparticles with nominal diameters of 20 nm , 30 nm , and 45 nm and at volume concentrations up to 10%. Potential complications in the pulsed transient hot-wire...

...Anna S. Cherkasova; Jerry W. Shan The influence of particle anisotropy on the effective thermal conductivity of a suspension is experimentally investigated. Suspensions of micron-sized, silicon-carbide particles with varying aspect-ratio distributions were prepared and measured. It is shown...

... boundaries heat transfer metallic thin films scanning electron microscopy suspensions thermal conductivity thermal expansion thermomechanical treatment Wiedemann effect thermal conductivity metallic thin films size effects surface scattering atomic force microscopy Thermal...