Experimental determination of thermal conductivity of three nanofluids and development of new correlations. (English) Zbl 1176.80044

Vajjha, Ravikanth S.; Das, Debendra K.

Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 52, No. 21-22, 4675-4682 (2009).

Summary: Experimental investigations have been carried out for determining the thermal conductivity of three nanofluids containing aluminum oxide, copper oxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles dispersed in a base fluid of 60:40 (by mass) ethylene glycol and water mixture. Particle volumetric concentration tested was up to 10% and the temperature range of the experiments was from 298 to 363 K. The results show an increase in the thermal conductivity of nanofluids compared to the base fluids with an increasing volumetric concentration of nanoparticles. The thermal conductivity also increases substantially with an increase in temperature. Several existing models for thermal conductivity were compared with the experimental data obtained from these nanofluids, and they do not exhibit good agreement. Therefore, a model was developed, which is a refinement of an existing model, which incorporates the classical Maxwell model and the Brownian motion effect to account for the thermal conductivity of nanofluids as a function of temperature, particle volumetric concentration, the properties of nanoparticles, and the base fluid, which agrees well with the experimental data.

MSC:

80A20	Heat and mass transfer, heat flow (MSC2010)
80-05	Experimental work for problems pertaining to classical thermodynamics
82D80	Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles

Keywords:

nanofluids; thermal conductivity; ethylene glycol; concentration; temperature dependency

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