Category: Transient Plane Source
Author(s): Guoliang Ding, Hao Peng, Kaijian Wang, Weiting Jiang, Yifeng Gao
Keywords: electrical resistance, nanofluids, nanoparticles, nanorefrigerants, refprop 8.0, thermal conductivity, thickness of adsorption layer, tps method, transient plane source, transient plane source (tps) method, volume fraction, wang model
Abstract: Nanofluids and nanorefrigerants are relatively new materials used for a variety of purposes. Specifically, nanorefrigerants are investigated in this study and the authors wanted to devise a theoretical model that could be used to predict the thermal conductivity of nanorefrigerants and nanofluids both. By using the TPS technique the researchers were able to obtain experimental data for the thermal conductivities of a series of nanorefrigerants and through the use of this data were able to devise a theoretical model that can be used to predict the thermal conductivity of nanofluids and nanorefrigerants.
Reference: HVACandR Research, 15, 3 (2009) 651-669
DOI: 10.1080/10789669.2009.10390855