Enhancement of heat transfer using nanofluids—an overview

L Godson, B Raja, DM Lal, SEA Wongwises - Renewable and sustainable …, 2010 - Elsevier
A colloidal mixture of nano-sized particles in a base fluid, called nanofluids, tremendously
enhances the heat transfer characteristics of the original fluid, and is ideally suited for …

Review of pool boiling enhancement with additives and nanofluids

G Liang, I Mudawar - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2018 - Elsevier
Enhancement of nucleate pool boiling by modifying fluid properties has drawn considerable
attention in recent years. This paper provides a comprehensive review of published …

Surface wettability change during pool boiling of nanofluids and its effect on critical heat flux

SJ Kim, IC Bang, J Buongiorno, LW Hu - … journal of heat and mass transfer, 2007 - Elsevier
The pool boiling characteristics of dilute dispersions of alumina, zirconia and silica
nanoparticles in water were studied. Consistently with other nanofluid studies, it was found …

A critical review of dynamic wetting by complex fluids: from Newtonian fluids to non-Newtonian fluids and nanofluids

G Lu, XD Wang, YY Duan - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2016 - Elsevier
Dynamic wetting is an important interfacial phenomenon in many industrial applications.
There have been many excellent reviews of dynamic wetting, especially on super …

Nanofluids for enhanced economics and safety of nuclear reactors: an evaluation of the potential features, issues, and research gaps

J Buongiorno, LW Hu, SJ Kim, R Hannink… - Nuclear …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Nanofluids are engineered colloidal suspensions of nanoparticles in water and exhibit a
very significant enhancement (up to 200%) of the boiling critical heat flux (CHF) at modest …

Effects of viscosity, interfacial tension, and flow geometry on droplet formation in a microfluidic T-junction

JD Wehking, M Gabany, L Chew, R Kumar - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2014 - Springer
Precise control of monodisperse micron-sized liquid droplet emulsions produced in a
microfluidic T-junction has far reaching implications in several mechanical, biomedical, and …

Subcooled flow boiling heat transfer of dilute alumina, zinc oxide, and diamond nanofluids at atmospheric pressure

SJ Kim, T McKrell, J Buongiorno, L Hu - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2010 - Elsevier
A nanofluid is a colloidal suspension of nano-scale particles in water, or other base fluids.
Previous pool boiling studies have shown that nanofluids can improve the critical heat flux …

Experimental study of flow critical heat flux in alumina-water, zinc-oxide-water, and diamond-water nanofluids

SJ Kim, T McKrell, J Buongiorno, LW Hu - 2009 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
It is shown that addition of alumina, zinc-oxide, and diamond particles can enhance the
critical heat flux (CHF) limit of water in flow boiling. The particles used here were in the …

Enhancement of critical heat flux in nucleate boiling of nanofluids: a state-of-art review

H Kim - Nanoscale research letters, 2011 - Springer
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 …

Infrared thermometry study of nanofluid pool boiling phenomena

C Gerardi, J Buongiorno, L Hu, T McKrell - Nanoscale research letters, 2011 - Springer
Infrared thermometry was used to obtain first-of-a-kind, time-and space-resolved data for
pool boiling phenomena in water-based nanofluids with diamond and silica nanoparticles at …