%0 Journal Article
%A Ravi S Prasher
%A W Evans
%A P Meakin
%A J Fish
%A others others
%B Applied Physics Letters
%D 2006
%G eng
%I aip.scitation.org
%P 143119
%R 10.1063/1.2360229
%T Effect of aggregation on thermal conduction in colloidal nanofluids
%V 89
%8 10/2006
%X <p><span>Using effective medium theory the authors demonstrate that the&nbsp;</span>thermal conductivity<span>&nbsp;of nanofluids can be significantly enhanced by the&nbsp;</span>aggregation<span>&nbsp;of&nbsp;</span>nanoparticles<span>&nbsp;into clusters. Predictions of the effective medium theory are in excellent agreement with detailed numerical calculation on&nbsp;</span>model<span>&nbsp;nanofluids involving&nbsp;</span>fractal<span>&nbsp;clusters and show the importance of cluster morphology on&nbsp;</span>thermal conductivity<span>&nbsp;enhancements.</span></p>