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Specific Heat of Nanofluids—An Experimental Investigation

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Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power

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This paper presents an experimental investigation of the specific heat of nanofluids. While a lot of research has been done on nanofluids, it is still inconclusive, and there is no agreement on the findings between various research groups. Also, most of the research has been done in areas of improvement of thermal conductivity but not of specific heat, which is equally important since it influences the heat-carrying capacity of a system. In the present work, the specific heat of different nanoparticles—silver, SWCNT, zinc oxide, aluminum oxide—has been investigated experimentally at different temperatures and particle sizes. Deficiencies of existing models are brought out, and a new correlation is presented.

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The authors are very thankful to Dr. N J Dembi for his important suggestion regarding this paper and Thapar University for its seed money.

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  1. Satyug Darshan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Faridabad, 121002, India

    Tushar Anand

  2. Mechanical Engineering Department, Thapar University, Patiala, 147001, India

    Soumya Suddha Mallick

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    T. Prabu

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    P. Viswanathan

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Amit Agrawal

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, S. V. National Institute of Technology Surat, Surat, Gujarat, India

    Jyotirmay Banerjee

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Anand, T., Mallick, S.S. (2021). Specific Heat of Nanofluids—An Experimental Investigation. In: Prabu, T., Viswanathan, P., Agrawal, A., Banerjee, J. (eds) Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0698-4_49

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