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Advanced Materials-Based Fluids for Thermal Systems
- 1st Edition - January 18, 2024
- Editor: Hafiz Muhammad Ali
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 5 7 6 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 5 7 7 - 3
Advanced Materials-Based Fluids for Thermal Systems focuses on new advanced materials called nanofluids that can be used to maximize heat transfer rates by adding nanoparti… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvanced Materials-Based Fluids for Thermal Systems focuses on new advanced materials called nanofluids that can be used to maximize heat transfer rates by adding nanoparticles (nanocomposites) into conventional heat transfer fluids. This comprehensive resource covers fundamentals, brief history, definitions, literature review, an introduction to thermophysical properties, and heat transfer characteristics with mathematical models, techniques, performance-affecting factors, applications, and challenges of hybrid nanofluids. The book includes thermal characteristics, measurement, design, and applications of nanoparticles, as well as up-to-date advances in thermal engineering. Sections cover basics then advance to major topics with mathematical models, schematic diagrams, and summaries of experimental work of different researchers. The book also summarizes previous research and contemporary advances on nanofluids worldwide and introduces new techniques, resolving existing problems, and includes tactics on the implementation in practical applications.
- Summarizes heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids
- Addresses factors that affect the properties of heat transfer
- Includes applications and challenges of commercialization
Advanced students in the fields of energy, thermal science, chemical and mechanical engineering. Researchers and professionals (engineers, industry, R&D) focused on nanofluids, heat transfer and thermal systems
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter One. Introduction to advanced fluids
- 1. What is nanofluid?
- 2. A brief history of nanofluids
- 3. Nanofluid preparation methods
- 4. Nanofluid stability
- 5. Classification of nanofluids
- 6. Nanofluids thermophysical properties
- 7. Nanofluid's open challenges
- Chapter Two. Impact of nanoparticle aggregation and melting heat transfer phenomena on magnetically triggered nanofluid flow: Artificial intelligence–based Levenberg–Marquardt approach
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mathematical formulation
- 3. Results and discussions
- 4. Conclusions
- Nomenclature
- Chapter Three. Applications of nanofluids in refrigeration and air-conditioning
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Nanofluids as secondary fluid
- 3. Nanorefrigerants
- 4. Nanolubricants
- 5. Nanoabsorbents
- 6. Miscellaneous applications
- 7. Challenges and future scope
- Nomenclature
- Chapter Four. Heat transfer enhancement with ferrofluids
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Preparation of ferrofluid
- 3. Thermophysical properties of ferrofluids
- 4. Mathematical formulation of FHD
- 5. Heat transfer enhancement using ferrofluids
- 6. Conclusion
- Nomenclature
- Chapter Five. Nanofluids–Magnetic field interaction for heat transfer enhancement
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Nanofluids
- 3. Magnetic nanofluids
- 4. Ferrohydrodynamics
- 5. Magnetohydrodynamics
- 6. Applications
- 7. Conclusion
- Nomenclature
- Chapter Six. Impact of Ohmic heating and nonlinear radiation on Darcy–Forchheimer magnetohydrodynamics flow of water-based nanotubes of carbon due to nonuniform heat source
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mathematical modelling of carbon nanotubes flow and heat transfer
- 3. Numerical methods of solution
- 4. Result and discussion
- 5. Conclusions
- Nomenclatures
- Chapter Seven. Thermos-physical properties and heat transfer characteristic of copper oxide–based ethylene glycol/water as a coolant for car radiator
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Modelling and simulation
- 3. Theoretical background
- 4. Discussion of findings
- 5. Conclusion and recommendation
- Abbreviation
- Chapter Eight. Discussion on the stability of nanofluids for optimal thermal applications
- 1. Nanofluids discussion
- 2. Mechanisms to increase the stability of nanofluids
- 3. Characterization of nanofluid stability
- 4. Conclusion
- Nomenclature
- Chapter Nine. Entropy optimization of magnetic nanofluid flow over a wedge under the influence of magnetophoresis
- 1. Literature review
- 2. Mathematical formations
- 3. Entropy generation
- 4. Numerical solution methodology
- 5. Result and discussion
- 6. Conclusions
- Nomenclature
- Chapter Ten. Nonaxisymmetric homann stagnation-point flow of nanofluid toward a flat surface in the presence of nanoparticle diameter and solid–liquid interfacial layer
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mathematical formulation
- 3. Numerical experiment
- 4. Results and discussion
- 5. Conclusions
- Chapter Eleven. On the hydrothermal performance of radiative Ag–MgO–water hybrid nanofluid over a slippery revolving disk in the presence of highly oscillating magnetic field
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mathematical formulation
- 3. Numerical method and code validation
- 4. Results and discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter Twelve. Application of nanofluids and future directions
- 1. Application of nanofluids in energy and electricity sector
- 2. Industrial application of nanoparticles in lubrication improvement
- 3. Applications of nanotechnology in solar water heaters
- 4. Applications of nanotechnology in solar water desalination
- 5. Application of nanotechnology in oil and gas wells
- 6. Future directions
- Nomenclature
- Chapter Thirteen. Investigating magnetohydrodynamic natural convection in nanofluid-saturated enclosures through asymptotic expansions
- 1. General concept of magnetohydrodynamic natural convection
- 2. Using nanofluids to enhance the heat exhaust capabilities of conventional coolants
- 3. The method of matched asymptotic expansions
- 4. Conclusions
- Index
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 18, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443215766
- eBook ISBN: 9780443215773
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Hafiz Muhammad Ali
Hafiz Muhammad Ali is currently working as an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He received his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom, in 2011. He was a postdoc at Water and Energy Laboratory of University of California at Merced, United States, during 2015-16. Dr. Ali is a noted faculty member having thermal sciences, heat transfer, and solar energy as his major areas of interest. His research interests include electronics cooling, condensation, nanofluids, heat transfer devices, and thermal management. He is the recipient of the “Best Young Research Scholar Award” for 2017 in the Engineering category, conferred by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan at the 7th HEC Outstanding Research Award Ceremony. He also had the honor of receiving HEC’s Best Research Paper Award (2013/2014) and Research Productivity Award by Pakistan Council of Science and Technology (2016-17). Apart from his academic duties, he is actively involved with editorial duties in several international journals, notably Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Springer), International Journal of Thermofluids (Elsevier), Journal Thermal Science, and Journal of Mechanical Engineering.
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Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi ArabiaRead Advanced Materials-Based Fluids for Thermal Systems on ScienceDirect