Adding a small amount of nanoparticles to conventional fluids (nanofluids) has been proved to be an effective way for improving capability of heat transferring in base fluids. The change in micro structure of base fluids and micro motion of nanoparticles may be key factors for heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids. Therefore, it is essential to examine these mechanisms on microscopic level. T...

In recent times, nanofluids have been studied by their thermal properties due to their variety of applications that range from photothermal therapy and radiofrequency hyperthermia (which have proven their potential use as coadjutants in these medical treatments for cancer diseases) to next-generation thermo-fluids. In this work, photoacoustic spectroscopy for a specific study of thermal diffusi...

Ethanol-based nanofluids have attracted much attention due to the enhancement in heat transfer and their potential applications in nanofluid-type fuels and thermal storage. Most research has been conducted on ethanol-based nanofluids containing various nanoparticles in low mass fraction; however, to-date such studies based on high weight fraction of nanoparticles are limited due to the poor sta...

The distilled water productivity of the single basin solar still is very limited. In this context, the design modification of a single basin solar still has been investigated to improve the solar still performance through increasing the productivity of distilled water. The experimental attempts are made to enhance the solar still productivity by using nanofluids and also by integrating the stil...

In this study, thermal and heat transfer characteristics of nano based PCM during energy storage and release processes were investigated. This work also presented the preparation of nanofluid, which is solid-liquid composite material consisting of TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) embedded into melting palmitic acid. Size of the TiO2 nanoparticles synthesized by sol-gel method was measured by using tran...

The objective of this study is to numerically investigate the convective heat transfer of water-based Al2O3 nanofluids flowing through a square cross-section duct with a constant heat flux under laminar flow conditions. The effects of nanoparticle concentration and Peclet number on the heat transfer characteristics of Al2O3-water nanofluids are investigated. The nanoparticle diameter is 25 nm a...

A numerical simulation model for laminar flow of nanofluids in a pipe with constant heat flux on the wall was built to study the effect of the Reynolds number on convective heat transfer and pressure loss. The investigation was performed for hybrid nanofluids consisting of CuO-Cu nanoparticles and compared with CuO and Cu in which the nanoparticles have a spherical shape with size 50, 50, 50nm ...

an empirical electrical conductivity assessment of nanofluids comprising cuo nanoparticles water-based in different concentrations, particles size and various temperatures of nanofluids has been carried out in this paper. these experimentations have been done in deionized water with nanoparticles sizes such as 89, 95, 100 and 112 nm and concentrations of 0.12 g/l, 0.14 g/l, 0.16 g/l and 0.18 g/...

Title of Dissertation: ENHANCEMENT OF SPRAY COOLING HEAT TRANSFER USING EXTENDED SURFACES AND NANOFLUIDS Johnathan Stuart Coursey, Ph.D., 2007 Directed By: Associate Professor, Jungho Kim, Department of Mechanical Engineering Spray cooling is a powerful heat transfer technique in which an atomizing nozzle provides a flow of liquid droplets directed towards a hot surface. This dissertation explo...

The main reason for using alternative fuels in compression ignition engine is that the consumption and demand of petroleum products are increasing every year due to urbanization, increase in vehicular density and power requirement is going up and to reduce emission produced by today’s diesel engine, which in turns require a clean burning fuel that perform well under the variety of operating con...