Nanofluids: Synthesis, Heat Conduction, and Extension

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liqiu Wang ◽  
Xiaohao Wei
Keyword(s):  
Heat Conduction ◽  
Olive Oil ◽  
Thermal Wave ◽  
Thermal Waves ◽  
Water Conductivity ◽  
Conductivity Enhancement ◽  
Chemical Solution Method ◽  
New Type ◽  
Fourier Heat Conduction ◽  
Two Phases

We synthesize eight kinds of nanofluids with controllable microstructures by a chemical solution method (CSM) and develop a theory of macroscale heat conduction in nanofluids. By the CSM, we can easily vary and manipulate nanofluid microstructures through adjusting synthesis parameters. Our theory shows that heat conduction in nanofluids is of a dual-phase-lagging type instead of the postulated and commonly used Fourier heat conduction. Due to the coupled conduction of the two phases, thermal waves and possibly resonance may appear in nanofluid heat conduction. Such waves and resonance are responsible for the conductivity enhancement. Our theory also generalizes nanofluids into thermal-wave fluids in which heat conduction can support thermal waves. We emulsify olive oil into distilled water to form a new type of thermal-wave fluids that can support much stronger thermal waves and resonance than all reported nanofluids, and consequently extraordinary water conductivity enhancement (up to 153.3%) by adding some olive oil that has a much lower conductivity than water.

Nonclassical Heat Transfer Models for Laser-Induced Thermal Damage in Biological Tissues

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianhua Zhou ◽  
J. K. Chen ◽  
Yuwen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Conduction ◽  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Thermal Wave ◽  
Thermal Damage ◽  
Blood Perfusion ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Phase Lag ◽  
Fourier Heat Conduction

To ensure personal safety and improve treatment efficiency in laser medical applications, one of the most important issues is to understand and accurately assess laser-induced thermal damage to biological tissues. Biological tissues generally consist of nonhomogeneous inner structures, in which heat flux equilibrates to the imposed temperature gradient via a thermal relaxation mechanism which cannot be explained by the traditional parabolic heat conduction model based on Fourier’s law. In this article, two non-Fourier heat conduction models, hyperbolic thermal wave model and dual-phase-lag (DPL) model, are formulated to describe the heat transfer in living biological tissues with blood perfusion and metabolic heat generation. It is shown that the non-Fourier bioheat conduction models could predict significantly different temperature and thermal damage in tissues from the traditional parabolic model. It is also found that the DPL bioheat conduction equations can be reduced to the Fourier heat conduction equations only if both phase lag times of the temperature gradient (τT) and the heat flux (τq) are zero. Effects of laser parameters and blood perfusion on the thermal damage simulated in tissues are also studied. The result shows that the overall effects of the blood flow on the thermal response and damage are similar to those of the time delay τT. The two-dimensional numerical results indicate that for a local heating with the heated spot being smaller than the tissue bulk, the variations of the non-uniform distributions of temperature suggest that the multi-dimensional effects of thermal wave and diffusion not be negligible.

Absence of Oscillations and Resonance in Porous Media Dual-Phase-Lagging Fourier Heat Conduction

2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Vadasz
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Heat Conduction ◽  
Thermal Equilibrium ◽  
Local Thermal Equilibrium ◽  
Dual Phase ◽  
Thermal Waves ◽  
Conduction Model ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Fourier Heat Conduction ◽  
Thermal Oscillations

The approximate equivalence between the dual-phase-lagging heat conduction model and the Fourier heat conduction in porous media subject to lack of local thermal equilibrium suggested the possibility of thermal oscillations and resonance. The present investigation demonstrates that the physical conditions necessary for such thermal waves and, possibly resonance, to materialize are not attainable in a porous slab subject to constant temperature conditions applied on the boundaries.

Thermal Modeling and Analysis of a Thermal Barrier Coating Structure Using Non-Fourier Heat Conduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Akwaboa ◽  
Patrick Mensah ◽  
Ebubekir Beyazouglu ◽  
Ravinder Diwan
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Conduction ◽  
Temperature Distribution ◽  
Thermal Barrier Coating ◽  
Thermal Wave ◽  
Heat Conduction Equation ◽  
Thermal Barrier ◽  
Hyperbolic Heat Conduction ◽  
Barrier Coating ◽  
Fourier Heat Conduction

This paper presents a numerical solution of the hyperbolic heat conduction equation in a thermal barrier coating (TBC) structure under an imposed heat flux on the exterior of the TBC. The non-Fourier heat conduction equation is used to model the heat conduction in the TBC system that predicts the heat flux and the temperature distribution. This study presents a more realistic approach to evaluate in-service performance of thin layers of TBCs typically found in hot sections of land based and aircraft gas turbine engines. In such ultrafast heat conduction systems, the orders of magnitude of the time and space dimensions are extremely short which renders the traditional Fourier conduction law, with its implicit assumption of infinite speed of thermal propagation, inaccurate. There is, therefore, the need for an advanced modeling approach for the thermal transport phenomenon taking place in microscale systems. A hyperbolic heat conduction model can be used to predict accurately the transient temperature distribution of thermal barrier structures of turbine blades. The hyperbolic heat conduction equations are solved numerically using a new numerical scheme codenamed the mean value finite volume method (MVFVM). The numerical method yields minimal numerical dissipation and dispersion errors and captures the discontinuities such as the thermal wave front in the solution with reliable accuracy. Compared with some traditional numerical methods, the MVFVM method provides the ability to model the behavior of the single phase lag thermal wave following its reflection from domain boundary surfaces. In addition, parametric studies of properties of the substrate on the temperature and the heat flux distributions in the TBC revealed that relaxation time of the substrate material, unlike the thermal diffusivity and thermal conductivity has very little effect on the transient thermal response in the TBC. The study further showed that for thin film structures subject to short time durations of heat flux, the hyperbolic model yields more realistic results than the parabolic model.

scholarly journals Nonlinear Solution to a Non-Fourier Heat Conduction Problem in a Slab Heated by Laser Source

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
Mohammad Javad Noroozi ◽  
Seyfolah Saedodin ◽  
Davood Domiri Ganji
Keyword(s):  
Heat Conduction ◽  
Heat Conduction Problem ◽  
Adomian Decomposition Method ◽  
Laser Source ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
Conduction Model ◽  
Non Linear Equation ◽  
Adomian Decomposition ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Fourier Heat Conduction

Abstract The effect of laser, as a heat source, on a one-dimensional finite body was studied in this paper. The Cattaneo-Vernotte non-Fourier heat conduction model was used for thermal analysis. The thermal conductivity was assumed temperature-dependent which resulted in a non-linear equation. The obtained equations were solved using the approximate-analytical Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM). It was concluded that the non-linear analysis is important in non-Fourier heat conduction problems. Significant differences were observed between the Fourier and non-Fourier solutions which stresses the importance of non-Fourier solutions in the similar problems.

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