A benchmark study on the thermal conductivity of nanofluids

verfasst von: Jacopo Buongiorno, David C. Venerus, Naveen Prabhat, Thomas McKrell, Jessica Townsend, Rebecca Christianson, Yuriy V. Tolmachev, Pawel Keblinski, Lin-Wen Hu, Jorge L. Alvarado, In Cheol Bang, Sandra W. Bishnoi, Marco Bonetti, Frank Botz, Anselmo Cecere, Yun Chang, Gang Chen, Haisheng Chen, Sung Jae Chung, Minking K. Chyu, Sarit K. Das, Roberto Di Paola, Yulong Ding, Frank Dubois, Grzegorz Dzido, Jacob Eapen, Werner Escher, Denis Funfschilling, Quentin Galand, Jinwei Gao, Patricia E. Gharagozloo, Kenneth E. Goodson, Jorge Gustavo Gutierrez, Haiping Hong, Mark Horton, Kyo Sik Hwang, Carlo S. Iorio, Seok Pil Jang, Andrzej B. Jarzebski, Yiran Jiang, Liwen Jin, Stephan Kabelac, Aravind Kamath, Mark A. Kedzierski, Lim Geok Kieng, Chongyoup Kim, Ji-Hyun Kim, Seokwon Kim, Seung Hyun Lee, Kai Choong Leong, Indranil Manna, Bruno Michel, Rui Ni, Hrishikesh E. Patel, John Philip, Dimos Poulikakos, Cecile Reynaud, Raffaele Savino, Pawan K. Singh, Pengxiang Song, Thirumalachari Sundararajan, Elena Timofeeva, Todd Tritcak, Aleksandr N. Turanov, Stefan Van Vaerenbergh, Dongsheng Wen, Sanjeeva Witharana, Chun Yang, Wei Hsun Yeh, Xiao-Zheng Zhao, Sheng-Qi Zhou
Abstract: This article reports on the International Nanofluid Property Benchmark Exercise, or INPBE, in which the thermal conductivity of identical samples of colloidally stable dispersions of nanoparticles or "nanofluids," was measured by over 30 organizations worldwide, using a variety of experimental approaches, including the transient hot wire method, steady-state methods, and optical methods. The nanofluids tested in the exercise were comprised of aqueous and nonaqueous basefluids, metal and metal oxide particles, near-spherical and elongated particles, at low and high particle concentrations. The data analysis reveals that the data from most organizations lie within a relatively narrow band (±10% or less) about the sample average with only few outliers. The thermal conductivity of the nanofluids was found to increase with particle concentration and aspect ratio, as expected from classical theory. There are (small) systematic differences in the absolute values of the nanofluid thermal conductivity among the various experimental approaches; however, such differences tend to disappear when the data are normalized to the measured thermal conductivity of the basefluid. The effective medium theory developed for dispersed particles by Maxwell in 1881 and recently generalized by Nan [J. Appl. Phys. 81, 6692 (1997)], was found to be in good agreement with the experimental data, suggesting that no anomalous enhancement of thermal conductivity was achieved in the nanofluids tested in this exercise.
Externe Organisation(en): Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Illinois Institute of Technology
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Kent State University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Texas A and M University
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Tokyo Institute of Technology
METSS Corporation
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Sasol Technology (Pty) Ltd.
University of Leeds
University of Pittsburgh
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Silesian University of Technology
North Carolina State University
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
ETH Zürich
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Stanford University
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Korea Aerospace University
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
DSO National Laboratory, Singapore
Korea University
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP)
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
Queen Mary University of London
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
Typ: Artikel
Journal: Journal of Applied Physics
Band: 106
ISSN: 0021-8979
Publikationsdatum: 2009
Publikationsstatus: Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Allgemeine Physik und Astronomie
Elektronische Version(en): https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3245330 (Zugang: Geschlossen)
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66196 (Zugang: Offen)

BibTeX

@article{acd820e560b64300ad9df411a2c90c71,
title = "A benchmark study on the thermal conductivity of nanofluids",
abstract = "This article reports on the International Nanofluid Property Benchmark Exercise, or INPBE, in which the thermal conductivity of identical samples of colloidally stable dispersions of nanoparticles or {"}nanofluids,{"} was measured by over 30 organizations worldwide, using a variety of experimental approaches, including the transient hot wire method, steady-state methods, and optical methods. The nanofluids tested in the exercise were comprised of aqueous and nonaqueous basefluids, metal and metal oxide particles, near-spherical and elongated particles, at low and high particle concentrations. The data analysis reveals that the data from most organizations lie within a relatively narrow band (±10% or less) about the sample average with only few outliers. The thermal conductivity of the nanofluids was found to increase with particle concentration and aspect ratio, as expected from classical theory. There are (small) systematic differences in the absolute values of the nanofluid thermal conductivity among the various experimental approaches; however, such differences tend to disappear when the data are normalized to the measured thermal conductivity of the basefluid. The effective medium theory developed for dispersed particles by Maxwell in 1881 and recently generalized by Nan [J. Appl. Phys. 81, 6692 (1997)], was found to be in good agreement with the experimental data, suggesting that no anomalous enhancement of thermal conductivity was achieved in the nanofluids tested in this exercise.",
author = "Jacopo Buongiorno and Venerus, {David C.} and Naveen Prabhat and Thomas McKrell and Jessica Townsend and Rebecca Christianson and Tolmachev, {Yuriy V.} and Pawel Keblinski and Lin-Wen Hu and Alvarado, {Jorge L.} and Bang, {In Cheol} and Bishnoi, {Sandra W.} and Marco Bonetti and Frank Botz and Anselmo Cecere and Yun Chang and Gang Chen and Haisheng Chen and Chung, {Sung Jae} and Chyu, {Minking K.} and Das, {Sarit K.} and {Di Paola}, Roberto and Yulong Ding and Frank Dubois and Grzegorz Dzido and Jacob Eapen and Werner Escher and Denis Funfschilling and Quentin Galand and Jinwei Gao and Gharagozloo, {Patricia E.} and Goodson, {Kenneth E.} and Gutierrez, {Jorge Gustavo} and Haiping Hong and Mark Horton and Hwang, {Kyo Sik} and Iorio, {Carlo S.} and Jang, {Seok Pil} and Jarzebski, {Andrzej B.} and Yiran Jiang and Liwen Jin and Stephan Kabelac and Aravind Kamath and Kedzierski, {Mark A.} and Kieng, {Lim Geok} and Chongyoup Kim and Ji-Hyun Kim and Seokwon Kim and Lee, {Seung Hyun} and Leong, {Kai Choong} and Indranil Manna and Bruno Michel and Rui Ni and Patel, {Hrishikesh E.} and John Philip and Dimos Poulikakos and Cecile Reynaud and Raffaele Savino and Singh, {Pawan K.} and Pengxiang Song and Thirumalachari Sundararajan and Elena Timofeeva and Todd Tritcak and Turanov, {Aleksandr N.} and {Van Vaerenbergh}, Stefan and Dongsheng Wen and Sanjeeva Witharana and Chun Yang and Yeh, {Wei Hsun} and Xiao-Zheng Zhao and Sheng-Qi Zhou",
note = "Funding Information: This work was made possible by the support of the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CBET-0812804. The authors are also grateful to Sasol and W. R. Grace & Co. for donating some of the samples used in INPBE. Special thanks to Mr. Edmund Carlevale of MIT for creating and maintaining the INPBE website. Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1063/1.3245330",
language = "English",
volume = "106",
journal = "Journal of Applied Physics",
issn = "0021-8979",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics",
number = "9",
}