Nanofluids are the new generation way to enhance thermal properties of common fluids. The potential of nanofluidshave made them very useful in different heat transfer applications. In this paper, the injection velocity effects on copper nanofluids over permeable stretching/shrining surfaces are analysed in stagnation–point flow. Nanofluids are under the influence of magnetic field. The PDE gove...

A theoretical analysis has been made to explore thermal entrance region heat transfer in nanofluids. The numerical model used in this paper is based on the Buongiorno model for convective heat transfer in nanofluids with modifications to fully account for the effects of nanoparticles volume fraction distributions on the continuity, momentum and energy equations. Numerical investigations have be...

Nanofluids (suspensions of nanometer-sized particles in base fluids) have recently been shown to have nucleate boiling critical heat flux (CHF) far superior to that of the pure base fluid. Over the past decade, numerous experimental and analytical studies on the nucleate boiling CHF of nanofluids have been conducted. The purpose of this article is to provide an exhaustive review of these studie...

The success of quenching process during industrial heat treatment mainly depends on the heat transfer characteristics of the quenching medium. In the case of quenching, the scope for redesigning the system or operational parameters for enhancing the heat transfer is very much limited and the emphasis should be on designing quench media with enhanced heat transfer characteristics. Recent studies...

Our recent work [1] theoretically revealed that speckles can be formed when nanofluids containing a modest volume fraction of nanoparticles are illuminated by a monochromatic laser beam. This paper focuses on the key issues, including the experimental setup, the particle volume fraction of the nanofluid, the flow velocity of the nanofluid and the diameter of the pipe, in measuring the velocitie...

Nanofluids are new generation heat transfer fluids and have opened a new horizon in the areas of heat transfer applications. Nanofluids are prepared by dispersing nano-sized metallic particles in conventional fluids of heat transfer. Heat transfer performance of nanofluid depends primarily on its thermo physical properties like viscosity, thermal conductivity, specific heat and density. Viscosi...

Experiments were performed using a flow-loop apparatus to explore the performance of nanofluids in cooling applications. The experiments were performed using exfoliated graphite nanoparticle fibers suspended in polyalphaolefin atmass concentrations of 0.6 and 0.3%.The experimental setup consisted of a test section containing a plain offsetfin cooler apparatus (gap or nongap fin), whichwas conne...

The optimization of the poor heat transfer characteristics of fluids conventionally employed in solar devices are at present one of the main topics for system efficiency and compactness. In the present work we investigated the optical and thermal properties of nanofluids consisting in aqueous suspensions of single wall carbon nanohorns. The characteristics of these nanofluids were evaluated in ...

Abstract In the present work, CuS–ZnO/water hybrid nanofluids (in concentrations of 0.0025 mass% and 0.005 mass%) are synthesized using a two-step method with nanoparticles composition 95% CuS 5% ZnO. The optically tuned nanofluid filter on agricultural greenhouse roof can reduce cooling load by transmitting visible spectrum absorbing near-infrared radiation in solar spectrum. size distribution...