Research Article
Numerical Prediction of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Nanofluids in a Minichannel Flow
Table 3
Thermophysical properties of TiO2 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 | | TiO2 | 4156 | 692 | 8.4 | — |
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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% TiO2 | 1060.3 | 3909.4 | 0.635 | 0.6878 | 0.00093 | | Water + 3% TiO2 | 1091.9 | 3786.3 | 0.65 | 0.698 | 0.00096 |
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