Effect of aggregation on thermal conduction in colloidal nanofluids

Ravi Prasher; William Evans; Paul Meakin; Jacob Fish; Patrick Phelan; Pawel Keblinski

doi:10.1063/1.2360229

Effect of aggregation on thermal conduction in colloidal nanofluids

Ravi Prasher, William Evans, Paul Meakin, Jacob Fish, Patrick Phelan, Pawel Keblinski

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Using effective medium theory the authors demonstrate that the thermal conductivity of nanofluids can be significantly enhanced by the aggregation of nanoparticles into clusters. Predictions of the effective medium theory are in excellent agreement with detailed numerical calculation on model nanofluids involving fractal clusters and show the importance of cluster morphology on thermal conductivity enhancements.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	143119
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	89
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2360229
State	Published - 2006

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