Experimental studies of nanofluid thermal conductivity enhancement and applications: A review

MM Tawfik - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
In many applications, there is a critical need for enhancing the poor thermal conductivity of
conventional fluids in order to develop efficient heat transfer fluids. This requirement can be …

An updated review on working fluids, operation mechanisms, and applications of pulsating heat pipes

Y Xu, Y Xue, H Qi, W Cai - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Global demands for sustainable energy are rising rapidly due to the ever-increasing energy
crisis. Efficient energy management is one of the feasible methods to solve the existing …

Applications of nanofluids: current and future

KV Wong, O De Leon - Advances in mechanical engineering, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Nanofluids are suspensions of nanoparticles in fluids that show significant enhancement of
their properties at modest nanoparticle concentrations. Many of the publications on …

Comparative study of using nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery: wettability alteration of carbonate rocks

R Nazari Moghaddam, A Bahramian… - Energy & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Nanofluids have been recently proposed as new chemical agents for enhanced oil recovery
from oil reservoirs. Various nanofluids have been studied in that regard and reported in the …

The wetting and spreading of nanofluids on solids: Role of the structural disjoining pressure

D Wasan, A Nikolov, K Kondiparty - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface …, 2011 - Elsevier
The wetting and spreading behavior of pure liquids over solid surfaces changes if liquids
contain nanosized spherical particles or surfactant micelles, globular proteins and …

[HTML][HTML] Current trends in surface tension and wetting behavior of nanofluids

P Estellé, D Cabaleiro, G Żyła, L Lugo… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanofluids are recent nanomaterials with improved thermophysical properties that could
enhance the efficiency and reliability of heat transfer systems. Relevant properties for heat …

[Књига][B] Nanoparticle heat transfer and fluid flow

WJ Minkowycz, EM Sparrow, JP Abraham - 2012 - books.google.com
Featuring contributions by leading researchers in the field, Nanoparticle Heat Transfer and
Fluid Flow explores heat transfer and fluid flow processes in nanomaterials and nanofluids …

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 …

Temperature induced changes in ZnO–water nanofluid: zeta potential, size distribution and viscosity profiles

KS Suganthi, KS Rajan - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2012 - Elsevier
Stable ZnO–water nanofluids with particle volume concentrations in the range of 0.25–
2vol% were prepared using probe ultrasonication and sodium hexametaphosphate for …

A comprehensive review of experimental evaluation methods and results of polymer micro/nanogels for enhanced oil recovery and reduced water production

J Liu, A Almakimi, M Wei, B Bai, IA Hussein - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, polymer micro/nanogels which are re-crosslinked polymers with 3D
networks, have attracted a lot of interest in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) field. In size of …