Abstract
The aim of this work was to investigate the effects of temperature and solid volume fraction on thermal conductivity of CNTs–Al2O3/water nanofluids. Both Al2O3 nanoparticles and CNTs are dispersed in the base fluid with equal solid volume. Experiments were conducted with various solid volume fractions of 0.02, 0.04, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.8 and 1.0 % and various fluid temperatures of 303, 314, 323 and 332 K. Measured data reveal that the thermal conductivity of nanofluid highly depends on the solid volume fraction. Also, temperature may play an important role in enhancing thermal conductivity of CNTs–Al2O3/water, especially at high solid volume fractions. Based on experimental data, correlations are proposed for different temperatures by nonlinear regression. These correlations are able to predict thermal conductivity of nanofluid with high precision. Besides, a general correlation of thermal conductivity with function of temperature and solid volume fraction was proposed.
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