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The Apparent Thermal Conductivity of Liquids Containing Solid Particles of Nanometer Dimensions: A Critique

Author(s): Georgia J. Tertsinidou, Marc J. Assael, William A. Wakeham

In the past twenty years, the behavior of the apparent thermal conductance of two or three phase systems comprised of solid particles with nanometer dimensions suspended in fluids, dubbed nanofluids, ...

Keywords: Al2O3, Cu, CuO, dispersants, Ethylene glycol, liquid, Nanofluids, Nanoparticles, thermal conductance, Thermal conductivity enhancement, THW, TiO2, transient hot wire method, Transient Hot-Wire, Water

Experimental Data for the Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity of Water and Steam

Author(s): Akira Nagashima, D. G. Frienda, D. Giakoumakis, E. Bekou, J. Millat, M. A. Killeen, Marc J. Assael

All reliable experimental data available relating to the viscosity and thermal conductance of water has been collected and turned into the current temperature scale and a set of units. There ...

Keywords: data, Gas, liquid, properties, steam, Thermal Conductivity, THW, Transient Hot-Wire, triple point, Vapor, viscosity, Water

Thermal Conductivity of Suspensions of Carbon Nanotubes in Water

Author(s): Ifigeneia Metaxa, Marc J. Assael, William A. Wakeham

An investigation on the enhancement of the thermal conductivity of water with the addition of multiwalled carbon nanotubes, (C-MWNT). C-MWNT occupied 0.6% of the volume in the test sample for every ...

Keywords: acidity, Carbon Nanotube, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Nanofluid, Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), steam, Thermal Conductivity, THW, Transient Hot-Wire, Water

Standard Reference Data for the Thermal Conductivity of Water

Author(s): Akira Nagashima, Carlos Nieto de Castro, Marc J. Assael, Maria LV Ramires, William A. Wakeham, Yuchi Nagasaka

Using a bare and a coated hot-wire apparatus, new data has been collected to determine the thermal conductivity of liquid water along the saturation line. This reference material data was ...

Keywords: High Accuracy, Hot wire, Liquids, reference materials, Thermal Conductivity, THW, Transient Hot-Wire, Water

Enhancement of Heat Transfer Coefficient using Fe₂O₃-Water Nanofluids

Author(s): M. H. Al-Dahhan, N.I. Zouli, S.A.M. Mohammed

A detailed development of a local heat transfer probe specifically designed for analyzing nanofluids. In this paper iron oxide is used as a test subject to determine the accuracy of ...

Keywords: Heat transfer coefficient, Heat transfer enhancement, Nanofluid, Nanoparticle, Oxide, Thermal Conductivity, TLS, TLS-100, Transient Line Source, Water

New Measurements of the Apparent Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids and Investigation of Their Heat Transfer Capabilities

Author(s): Chrysi M. Tsolakidou, Georgia J. Tertsinidou, Marc J. Assael, Maria Pantzali

This article studied the thermal conductivity values and measurements for the following two systems using the transient hot wire (THW) and transient plane source (TPS) techniques: ethylene glycol with added ...

Keywords: Ethylene glycol, Finite Element Method (FEM), finite-element method, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Nanofluids, Nanoparticles, Nanotubes, Thermal Conductivity, Thermal Conductivity Analyzer, Thermal Constants Analyzer, Transient Hot Wire (THW) Instrument, Transient Hot-Wire, Transient plane source (TPS) technique, Transmission Electron Miscoscopy (TEM), Water

Transport properties and heat transfer coefficients of ZnO/(ethylene glycol + water) nanofluids

Author(s): David Cabaleiro, Filippo Agresti, L. Fedele, Laura Colla

Nanofluids are used to improve the thermal conductivity of heat transfer fluids. This study examined the effects on thermal conductivity of zinc oxide (ZnO)/ethylene glycol + water nanofluids as increasing ...

Keywords: Dynamic Viscosity, Ethylene glycol, Heat transfer coefficient, Nanofluid, Thermal Conductivity, Transient plane source (TPS), Transient plane source (TPS) method, Water, ZnO

Keyword: Water

The Apparent Thermal Conductivity of Liquids Containing Solid Particles of Nanometer Dimensions: A Critique

Experimental Data for the Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity of Water and Steam

Thermal Conductivity of Suspensions of Carbon Nanotubes in Water

Standard Reference Data for the Thermal Conductivity of Water

Enhancement of Heat Transfer Coefficient using Fe₂O₃-Water Nanofluids

New Measurements of the Apparent Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids and Investigation of Their Heat Transfer Capabilities

Transport properties and heat transfer coefficients of ZnO/(ethylene glycol + water) nanofluids

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