In this study, the thermal conductivity and viscosity of TiO 2 nanoparticles in deionized water were investigated up to a volume fraction of 3 % of particles. The nanofluid was prepared by dispersing TiO 2 nanoparticles in deionized water by using ultrasonic equipment. The mean diameter of TiO 2 nanoparticles was 21 nm. While the thermal conductivity of nanofluids has been measured in general using conventional techniques such as the transient hot-wire method, this work presents the application of the 3ω method for measuring the thermal conductivity. The 3ω method was validated by measuring the thermal conductivity of pure fluids (water, methanol, ethanol, and ethylene glycol), yielding accurate values within 2 %. Following this validation, the effective thermal conductivity of TiO 2 nanoparticles in deionized water was measured at temperatures of 13 • C, 23 • C, 40 • C, and 55 • C. The experimental results showed that the thermal conductivity increases with an increase of particle volume fraction, and the enhancement was observed to be 7.4 % over the base fluid for a nanofluid with 3 % volume fraction of TiO 2 nanoparticles at 13 • C. The increase in viscosity with the increase of particle volume fraction was much more than predicted by the Einstein model. From this research, it seems that the increase in the nanofluid viscosity is larger than the enhancement in the thermal conductivity.A. Turgut · I. Tavman (B)
Thermal conductivity of copper powder filled polyamide composites are investigated experimentally in the range of filler content 0-30% by volume for particle shape of short fibers and 0-60% by volume for particle shapes of plates and spheres. The thermal conductivity of polymer composites is measured by the Hot-Disk method. It is seen that the experimental values for all the copper particle shapes are close to each other at low particle content, φ<10, as the particles are dispersed in the polyamide matrix and they are not interacting with each other. For particle content greater than 10% by volume, a rapid increase occurs in the thermal conductivity for the copper fibers filled polymer composite. As a result of this study, thermal conductivity of copper filled polyamide composites depends on the thermal conductivity of the filler particles, filler particle shape and size, and the volume fraction and spatial arrangement of the filler particles in the polymer matrix.
In this study, thermal conductivity of particle filled polymer composites is investigated numerically and experimentally. In the numerical study, the finite-element program ANSYS is used to calculate the thermal conductivity of the composite by using the results of the thermal analysis. Three-dimensional models are used to simulate the microstructure of composite materials for various filler concentrations at various ratios of thermal conductivities of filler to matrix material. The models used to simulate particle filled composite materials are cubes in a cube lattice array and spheres in a cube lattice array. A modified hot wire method is used to measure the thermal conductivity of the composites consisting of a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) matrix filled with tin particles up to 16% by volume. The experimentally measured thermal conductivities are compared with numerically calculated ones by using the spheres in cube model and also with the already existing theoretical and empirical models. At low particle content, up to 10% of volume content of tin filler, numerical estimation and all other models except for the Cheng and Vachon model, predict well the thermal conductivity of the composite. For more heavily filled composites there is an exponential increase in thermal conductivity and most of the models fail to predict thermal conductivity in this region.
Nanofluids are potential new generation heat transfer fluids, which have been investigated meticulously, in recent years. Thermophysical properties of these fluids have significant influence on their heat transfer characteristics. Viscosity is one of the most important thermophysical properties that depends on various parameters. Size of the particles used in nanofluids is one of these effecting parameters. In this work, experimental studies considering the particle size effect on the viscosity of the nanofluid have been reviewed. Firstly, comparison of nanofluid and surfactant type, production and measurement methods were considered. Viscosity results of selected studies were evaluated in view of the parameters such as particle size, temperature and concentration. Furthermore, effective viscosity models of nanofluids, which include particle size as a parameter were discussed. The results indicate that there is a discrepancy about the effect of particle size on the viscosity of nanofluids. Moreover, it is observed from the evaluated data that the relative viscosity variation can be almost 40% either upwards or downwards by only altering the particle size.
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