Rheological Characteristics of Nanofluids for Advance Heat Transfer

2017 ◽  
pp. 227-266
Author(s):  
S.M. Sohel Murshed ◽  
Patrice Estellé
Author(s):  
Liang Wang ◽  
Guiping Lin ◽  
Yulong Ding

Microencapsulated phase change material (MPCM) suspensions have large specific heat due to the latent heat of the phase change material and enhance the convective heat transfer consequently. However low thermal conductivity of the phase change material diminishes the heat transfer performance of the MPCM suspensions. To improve the thermal conductivity of the MPCM suspensions, TiO2 nanoparticles were added into the MPCM suspensions to formulate a novel thermal fluid—nanoparticle compound microencapsulated phase change material suspensions. In this paper, the rheological characteristics and shear viscosities of such slurries using a Bolin CVO rheometer (Malvern Instruments) over a range of shear rate (5–500s−1), MPCM concentration (0–20wt%) and TiO2 nanoparticle concentration 0.5wt% at temperature (20°C–40°C). The result shows that the viscosities of NCMPCM suspensions are almost independent of the shear rate, indicating Newtonian fluid under the conditions of this work and the viscosities depend strongly on temperature which fits well with the VTF function. Based on the effective volume fraction method and Vand equation, two methods that predict the viscosity of nanoparticle compound microencapsulated phase change material suspensions was analyzed and the result shows that the prediction data the effective volume fraction method fit the measurements well.


2006 ◽  
Vol 128 (10) ◽  
pp. 977-983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinjia Wei ◽  
Yasuo Kawaguchi ◽  
Bo Yu ◽  
Ziping Feng

Turbulent friction drag and heat transfer reductions and rheological characteristics of a very dilute cationic surfactant solution, cetyltrimethyl ammonium chloride (CTAC)/sodium salicylate (NaSal) aqueous solution, were experimentally investigated at various temperatures. It was found that there existed a critical temperature above which drag and heat transfer reductions disappeared and shear viscosities rapidly dropped to that of water. It was surmised that drag and heat transfer reductions had a certain relationship with rheological characteristics and a rheological characterization of CTAC∕NaSal surfactant solutions was performed to clarify this relationship. The effects of Reynolds number and fluid temperature and concentration on drag and heat transfer reductions were qualitatively explained by analyzing the measured shear viscosity data at different shear rates and solution temperatures and concentrations. The Giesekus model was found to fit the measured shear viscosities reasonably well for different temperatures and concentrations of the surfactant solution and the model parameter values obtained by fitting were correlated with temperature at certain solution concentrations. From the correlation results, the temperature effect on viscoelasticity of surfactant solutions was analyzed to relate the rheological characteristics with drag and heat transfer reduction phenomena.


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