Research Article
Numerical Prediction of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Nanofluids in a Minichannel Flow
Table 4
Thermophysical properties of CuO nanofluids of different concentrations.
| Fluid | Density (kg/m3) | Specific heat (J/kg·K) |
Thermal conductivity (W/m·K) | Viscosity (Pa·s) |
| Water | 997.13 | 4179 | 0.605 | 0.00089 | CuO | 6500 | 551 | 32.9 | — |
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Fluid |
Density (kg/m3) |
Specific heat (J/kg·K) |
Thermal conductivity (W/m·K) |
Viscosity (Pa·s) | Without Brownian motion | With Brownian motion |
| Water + 2% CuO | 1107.2 | 3753 | 0.64 | 0.682 | 0.00093 | Water + 3% CuO | 1162.2 | 3570.3 | 0.658 | 0.696 | 0.00096 |
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