Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics of Nanofluids

Abstract

Nanofluid is the liquid containing colloidal dispersion of nanometer-sized solid particles. Anomalously high thermal conductivity of nanofluids compared to the base fluid was reported in 1995, and then a number of studies have been conducted so far for the nanofluids from various aspects. This paper presents a review of the researches on the critical heat flux and boiling heat transfer of nanofluids.