I'm working on the simulation of thermal behavior of Ionanofluids, which is an ionic liquid-based-fluid in which nanoparticles were suspended to enhance the thermal performance. Multiple researches in the matter are taking in consideration more physical propreties to help predict these newly introduced fluids' thermal performance. Despite the rarety of experimental studies, they are credible and have very convincing models based on experimental observations and interpretations. In most cases a model for the thermal conductivity or for heat capacity was introduced to help predict the thermal performance. So in order for me to carry on a sophisticated numerical study i'm trying to introduce these models into Ansys Fluent as UDFs in order to compare or confirm with the experimental studies. This will enable me also, throw parametric studies to try multiple combinations of the ionic liquids+nanoparticles and compare their performance and cost effectiveness.
Thank you so much for your help and any advice in the matter will be helpful also.
As far I know, the thermal conductivity and heat capacity are the properties of the materials and should be defined firstly. But, you can define the properties by the udf if they are change during the process.
Yeah because it has been proved previously, that there is an interaction between the nanoparticles and the ionic liquid that results an interfacial layer increasing the thermal conductivity. Thank you so much.
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