@article{Prasher2006-ly, author = {Ravi S Prasher and W Evans and P Meakin and J Fish and others others}, title = {Effect of aggregation on thermal conduction in colloidal nanofluids}, abstract = {

Using effective medium theory the authors demonstrate that the\ thermal conductivity\ of nanofluids can be significantly enhanced by the\ aggregation\ of\ nanoparticles\ into clusters. Predictions of the effective medium theory are in excellent agreement with detailed numerical calculation on\ model\ nanofluids involving\ fractal\ clusters and show the importance of cluster morphology on\ thermal conductivity\ enhancements.

}, year = {2006}, booktitle = {Applied Physics Letters}, journal = {Applied Physics Letters}, series = {Applied Physics Letters}, volume = {89}, number = {14}, pages = {143119}, month = {10/2006}, institution = {aip.scitation.org}, publisher = {aip.scitation.org}, doi = {10.1063/1.2360229}, language = {eng}, }