Vipin Nair

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What are the thermal conductivity values of various metal oxide particles such as Aluminium oxide and Copper oxide?

Is there any handbook or any other data available regarding the thermal conductivity values of metal oxides? Thank you

04 October 2016 9,427 10 View

How to incorporate thermophysical property variation with temperature for an internal forced convection scenario through a tube at constant heat flux?

Bulk mean temperature of the fluid is generally calculated by taking the average of inlet and exit temperatures of the fluid for constant wall temperature boundary condition.but in case of...

03 July 2016 9,385 6 View

Why is thermal conductivity of aluminium oxide higher than copper oxide?

At room temperature,the thermal conductivity of copper(395 W/mK) is much higher than that of Aluminium (235W/mK). So what is reason behind higher thermal conductivity of aluminium oxide?What...

25 March 2016 4,065 4 View

In a typical heat exchanger, is there any specific rule that the hot fluid should flow through the inner tubes??

In any heat exchanger, for example; in a double pipe heat exchanger,how do we decide whether the hot fluid should flow through inner tube or outer tube?. Or is it completely irrelevant whether the...

19 February 2016 4,727 18 View

What is the thermal conductivity of metallic nanoparticles or oxide nanoparticles? Is it same as the parent material?

Is the thermal conductivity of copper and copper nanoparticle same? Thermal conductivity of copper is around 390 W/m.K so does it mean that Copper nanoparticles also will have a thermal...

04 November 2015 5,021 8 View

What are various well known ultrasonic processors used for ultrasonication of nanofluids??

I would like to know about the experiences and views about different ultrasonic processors used by various researchers for nanofluid sonication. There are many ultrasonic processors available in...

26 September 2015 5,354 17 View

What will be the effect of changing nanoparticle concentration on viscosity of nanofluid/nanorefrigerant?

Is there any correlation by which we can analyse the viscosity of nanorefrigerants for various particle concentrations?

04 August 2015 717 20 View