Nanofluids, the fluid suspensions of nanomaterials, have shown many interesting properties,
and the distinctive features offer unprecedented potential for many applications. This paper …

The efficient exploitation of solar irradiation is one of the most encouraging ways of handling
numerous environmental concerns. Solar collectors are suitable devices that capture solar …

Utilizing nanofluids as an advanced kind of liquid mixture with a small concentration of
nanometer-sized solid particles in suspension is a relatively new field, which is less than two …

It has been more than two decades since the discovery of 'nanofluids'–mixtures of common
liquids and solid nanoparticles with at least one dimension below 100 nm in size. While …

Integrating nanotechnology into phase change materials (PCMs) has emerged as a novel
approach to improving PCM thermal properties and performance in various thermal energy …

Despite massive efforts in the field of nanofluids over the last two decades, nanofluids are
primarily still used in a lab scale due to numerous controllable and uncontrollable barriers …

Solar energy is the ultimate perceived solution of incessantly proliferating energy crisis.
Diverse range of solar energy conversion systems has been employed to convert solar …

Nanofluids as a new generation of fluids have attracted a lot of research works. There is
growing evidence that the nanofluids are more suitable for various heat transfer applications …

Nanofluids—a simple product of the emerging world of nanotechnology—are suspensions
of nanoparticles (nominally 1–100 nm in size) in conventional base fluids such as water …

In the present work the effect of Al2O3–water nanofluid, as working fluid, on the efficiency of
a flat-plate solar collector was investigated experimentally. The weight fraction of …