Comparison between Experimental and Theoretical Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids Containing Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes Decorated with TiO2 Nanoparticles

摘要

This article reports the thermal conductivity modeling of nanofluids containing decorated multi-walled carbon nanotubes with TiO2 nanoparticles. TiO2 nanoparticles and decorated multi-walled carbon nanotubes are synthesized with different amounts of TiO2 nanoparticles. The experimental results show that the measured thermal conductivities of TiO2 nanofluids and multi-walled carbon nanotube nanofluids are higher than the predicted values by theoretical models. The comparison results of multi-walled carbon nanotube nanofluids and multi-walled carbon nanotube-TiO2 nanofluids reveal that the predicted values by the Xue model are closer to the measured values. In addition, the results show that the thermal conductivity of nanofluids containing multi-walled carbon nanotube-TiO2 increases with respect to TiO2 content of hybrid.