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/m^3)	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		—
Fluid	Density; (kg/m^3)	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