Nanofluids Heat Transfer

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editors are inviting submissions for a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Nanofluid Heat Transfer”.

Nanofluid technologies have been identified as a solution to the problem of the rapid escalation of the heat dissipation rate, which has been observed in a wide range of applications in recent decades, for example, due to the micro- and nanominiaturization of computer electronic components, not least in medical devices, in addition to potentially addressing the requests for energy conservation.

In general, suspensions of nanometric particles in base fluids improves the efficiency of heat transfer. However, there is discussion about the experimental results for the transport properties or for the convective behavior of the nanofluids. The complete understanding of all physical mechanisms related to the behavior of these fluids, and of their overlap, is still an open issue.

In order to understand how effects related to the nanoscale could influence the macroscopic transport behavior of nanofluids, researchers are studying the stability of these solutions, including the thermal and rheological properties, convective heat transfer, and hydrodynamic behaviors of a large variety of nanoparticles (in the case of one type of particle or hybrid nanofluids) in different base fluids.

A great deal of effort is devoted to the theoretical and numerical models of the interaction mechanisms and of different physical contributions (thermophoretic diffusion, Brownian motion, effects of the wall region, effects of size and shape, etc.) and, currently, several coexisting approaches are used to describe nanofluids (for example, phase and two-phase models). Multiscale approaches have attempted to fully describe the complexity of nanofluids.

We therefore invite papers on the theoretical, experimental, and numerical results of the thermal behavior of nanofluids, review papers, and papers of analysis, discussion, and assessment.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

Thermophysical properties

Natural, mixed, forced convection in nanofluids

Conductive, convective, radiative heat transfer

Rheological characteristics of nanofluids

Hybrid nanofluids

Thermohydraulics of nanofluids

Heat transfer by nanofluids through porous media and microchannels

Convection heat transfer inside cavities filled with nanofluids

Fouling and clustering of nanoparticles

Shape effects

Magnetic field effects

Micro, meso, and macro scale modeling approaches

Lattice Boltzmann methods

Prof. Dr. Annunziata D'Orazio
Prof. Dr. Arash Karimipour
Guest Editors

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