Effect of aggregation on thermal conduction in colloidal nanofluids
Date Published |
10/2006
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Publication Type | Journal Article
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DOI |
10.1063/1.2360229
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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. |
Journal |
Applied Physics Letters
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Volume |
89
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Year of Publication |
2006
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Number |
14
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Pagination |
143119
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Publisher |
aip.scitation.org
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