Thermal conductivity of nanofluids containing high aspect ratio fillers

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• 作者：Bangming Gu ; Bo Hou ; Zhangxian Lu ; Zhengliang Wang ; Shanfei Chen
• 关键词：Nanofluids ; Thermal conductivity ; Aspect ratio ; Transient hot wire method
• 刊名：International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：September, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：64
• 期：Complete
• 页码：108-114
• 全文大小：880 K

文摘

The effective thermal conductivity of three water based nanofluids (NFs) consisting of large aspect ratio fillers - carbon nanotubes (CNTs), silver nanowires, copper nanowires - were measured by transient hot wire method. The results show that silver nanofluid has the highest thermal conductivity compared with copper and CNTs nanofluids, while the latter two present almost the same thermal conductivity at the same volume fraction. The experiment indicates that particle shape has a substantial effect on the effective thermal conductivity of suspension and shape factor is one of the most important factors that leads to the large discrepancies among the experimental values of the thermal conductivities. Our results reveal that material with higher thermal conductivity is not a decisive factor and not always effective to improve the thermal transport properties of nanofluids.