... for noise reduction (namely, the bonsai box (BB) and the seamless strategy) are discussed. Comparisons with benchmark full-molecular dynamics (MD) cases for micro and nano thermal and reacting flows show excellent agreement and good computational efficiency. microfluidics nanofluidics atomistic...

...Vinh-Nguyen Phan; Nam-Trung Nguyen; Chun Yang; Pierre Joseph; Anne-Marie Gué Nanofluidics is the science and technology involving a fluid flowing in or around structures with a least one dimension in the nanoscale, which is defined as the range from 1 nm to 100 nm. In this paper, we present...

...Massimo Corcione; Marta Cianfrini; Emanuele Habib; Alessandro Quintino Free convection heat transfer in nanofluids from vertical flat plates at uniform temperature is investigated theoretically. The main idea upon which the present work is based is that nanofluids behave more like single-phase...

...Ho Seon Ahn; Moo Hwan Kim Recently, there has been increasing interest in boiling nanofluids and their applications. Among the many articles that have been published, the critical heat flux (CHF) of nanofluids has drawn special attention because of its dramatic enhancement. This article includes...

... 11 2011 21 11 2011 heat pipes magnetic fluids magnetohydrodynamics nanofluidics pulsatile flow thermal resistance pulsating heat pipe (PHP) ferrofluid (magnetic nanofluid) thermal resistance charging ratio The pulsating heat pipe (PHP), one of the most reliable...

...Cong Qi; Yurong He; Yanwei Hu; Juancheng Yang; Fengchen Li; Yulong Ding In this work, the natural convection heat transfer of Cu-gallium nanofluid in a differentially heated enclosure is investigated. A single-phase model is employed with constant or temperature-dependent properties of the fluid...

...Pawan K. Singh; P. V. Harikrishna; T. Sundararajan; Sarit K. Das There are very few detailed experimental investigations about the heat transfer behavior of nanofluids in microchannel. The heat transfer behavior of nanofluids in microchannel is investigated. Two microchannels with hydraulic...

...Jing Fan; Liqiu Wang 08 07 2011 08 07 2011 heat conduction nanofluidics Some corrections on citation/reference are needed in this paper, as follows: 1 Page 040801-1, the citation in Line 6 from bottom (right column) should read “Refs. [5, 17, 19],” rather than “Refs. [5...

...Hamid Reza Seyf; Shahabeddin Keshavarz Mohammadian This paper analyzes the thermal and hydraulic performance of a counterflow microchannel heat exchanger (CFMCHE) with and without nanofluid as working fluid. A 3D conjugate heat transfer simulation is carried out using a finite volume approach...

...K. Babu; T. S. Prasanna Kumar In this article, water based carbon nanotube (CNT) nanofluids have been used as quenchants to study their effects on the heat transfer rate during immersion quenching. For this purpose, water based CNT nanofluids were prepared by dispersing CNTs with and without...

...W. Escher; T. Brunschwiler; N. Shalkevich; A. Shalkevich; T. Burgi; B. Michel; D. Poulikakos Nanofluids have been proposed to improve the performance of microchannel heat sinks. In this paper, we present a systematic characterization of aqueous silica nanoparticle suspensions with concentrations up...

...Qi-Ming Li; Jiang Zou; Zhen Yang; Yuan-Yuan Duan; Bu-Xuan Wang Two-phase flows in an oscillating heat pipe (OHP) charged with deionized (DI) water and a nanofluid (0.268% v/v) were experimentally investigated. The OHP was made of quartz glass tube (with an inner diameter of 3.53 mm and an outer...

...T. Grosan; I. Pop The classical problem of forced convection boundary layer flow and heat transfer past a needle with variable wall temperature using nanofluids is theoretically studied. The similarity equations are solved numerically for two types of metallic or nonmetallic, such as copper (Cu...

...M. S. Hosseini; A. Mohebbi; S. Ghader In this study, a new method based on the local composition theory has been developed to predict thermal conductivity, convective heat transfer coefficient, and viscosity of nanofluids. The nonrandom two liquid (NRTL) model is used for this purpose. The effects...

...Jing Fan; Liqiu Wang Nanofluids—fluid suspensions of nanometer-sized particles—are a very important area of emerging technology and are playing an increasingly important role in the continuing advances of nanotechnology and biotechnology worldwide. They have enormously exciting potential...

... in the nanofluid affect the nanoparticle spreading in the gel. The nanoparticle transport pattern in gels suggests that convection and diffusion are important mechanisms in particle transport in the gel. Although the particle spreading patterns in the gel may not be directly applied to real tissue, we believe...

...Jie Li; Clement Kleinstreuer Employing a validated computer simulation model, entropy generation is analyzed in trapezoidal microchannels for steady laminar flow of pure water and CuO-water nanofluids. Focusing on microchannel heat sink applications, local and volumetric entropy rates caused...

... colloids convection drops microchannel flow nanofluidics suspensions nanofluid colloidal suspensions thermal transport Marangoni effect droplet-laden flow segmented flow immiscible fluids Thermal management of microelectronic devices becomes more important and challenging as size...

...Saeid Vafaei; Dongsheng Wen This work investigates subcooled flow boiling of aqueous based alumina nanofluids in 510 μ m single microchannels with a focus on the effect of nanoparticles on the critical heat flux. The surface temperature distribution along the pipe, the inlet and outlet pressures...

...Joohyun Lee; Patricia E. Gharagozloo; Babajide Kolade; John K. Eaton; Kenneth E. Goodson While there has been much previous research on the thermal conductivity and convection performance of nanofluids, these data are rarely reported together with effective viscosity data that govern the relevance...