Equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation for investigation on the enhancement of thermal conductivity in ethylene glycol-based ZnO nanofluid

Abstract

The thermal conductivity of ethylene-glycol based ZnO nanofluid is computed using Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations in the Green-Kubo framework, taking into account the impact of nanoparticle volume fraction and nanofluid temperature. Mean square displacement (MSD) of the liquid phase for base fluid and nanofluid is also studied to investigate the thermal conductivity enhancement mechanism.