Heat Transfer and Fluids Properties of Nanofluids

Dear Colleagues,

Nanofluids have recently emerged as a hot research field, as evidenced by the worldwide research and publication explosion on them. Despite being a popular topic, though, the real progress of this field is rather slow, and its real-world application is impeded due to various complicated challenges, including its anomalous thermophysical properties, stability, sustainable usefulness, and compatibility in many conventional systems or devices. Although extensive research efforts have been focused on thermophysical properties of nanofluids and most of the research has demonstrated significant enhancement in thermophysical properties, there remains a large volume of scattered and inconsistent data leading to not yet reaching unanimous conclusions on the enhancement and its underlying mechanisms. Additionally, a large number of research efforts have been made to develop models for the prediction of the thermophysical properties, particularly thermal conductivity of nanofluids. Again, no widely accepted theoretical models are available for nanofluids. The viscosity of nanofluids is also a key property, particularly important for their applications under a flowing condition. On top of all these, a major challenge with nanofluids is to obtain sustainable stability and persistent properties over a long duration. All these issues are very crucial for nanofluid development and applications, and research in these areas has been growing in recent years.

The aim of this Special Issue is to publish a wide range of topics related to nanofluids with special emphasis on thermophysical and heat transfer properties and features, challenges, and applications in all spectra in order make this Special Issue a useful resource for the people involved in this field as well as for the progress of this field.

Articles to be considered for this Special Issue include original full papers, communications, and critical reviews in any area/topic of the keywords and beyond.

Prof. Dr. S M Sohel Murshed
Guest Editor

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