Study on Enhancement of Convective Heat Transfer in Nanofluids
Nanofluids are a new class of heat transfer fluids and offer an important advantage on conventional heat transfer fluids. The nanometer-sized metallic and non-metallic solid particles or tubes are dispersed in base heat transfer fluids such as water, engineering oil and emulsion. It is a interdisciplinary field between nanoscience, nanotechnology, and thermal engineering. The nanofluids study work attracts a lot of interest from the worldwide researchers because of their fascinating thermal characteristics and potential applications in microelectronics, transportation and biomedical fields. Many important theoretical and experimental study works on convective heat transfer appeared in literature. The purpose of this article is to study theoretical and experimental findings on the enhancement of the convection heat transfer with nanofluids and analyze the key factors of thermal conductivity and convective heat transfer enhancement with nanofluids.