Ionanofluids are a new and innovative class of heat transfer fluids which exhibit fascinating thermophysical properties compared to their base ionic liquids. This paper deals with the findings of thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity of ionanofluids as a function of a temperature and concentration of nanotubes. Simulation results using ionanofluids as coolants in heat exchanger are al...

Thermal conductivity of liquids and liquid mixtures has been a subject of active and considerable interest because of its technological applications as well as for providing an insight into the various molecular processes. Similarly, a study of thermal conductivity of liquids and liquid mixtures, at varying temperature and pressure, is of significance due to its applicability in process design,...

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Heat transfer fluids have inherently low thermal conductivity that greatly limits the heat exchange efficiency. While the effectiveness of extending surfaces and redesigning heat exchange equipments to increase the heat transfer rate has reached a limit, many research activities have been carried out attempting to improve the thermal transport properties of the fluids by adding more thermally c...

The origin of both weak temperature dependence and packing fraction dependence of T(1/4)η(3/2) in the thermal conductivity of the simple Lennard-Jones (LJ) liquid is explored. In order to discuss the relative contributions from attractive or repulsive part of the interaction potential separately, the thermal conductivity of a series of Weeks-Chandler-Anderson (WCA) fluids is calculated by molec...

The thermal conductivity of strongly coupled Yukawa liquids, being relevant to dusty plasmas, is calculated from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The calculations cover a wide range of plasma coupling (Gamma) and screening (kappa) parameters and yield data which are generally in good agreement with the results of recent independent calculations. An improved analytical formula, rel...

This work presents a method to measure the thermal conductivity and heat capacity of electrically conducting small-volume liquid samples using the 3omega technique. A mathematical model of heat transfer is derived to determine the thermal properties from the 3omega signal considering the device geometry. In order to validate the model, an experimental apparatus has been designed and set up to m...