Title |
Thermal analysis of nanofluids in microfluidics using an infrared camera
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Published in |
Lab on a Chip - Miniaturisation for Chemistry & Biology, May 2012
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DOI | 10.1039/c2lc40222j |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Pyshar Yi, Aminuddin A. Kayani, Adam F. Chrimes, Kamran Ghorbani, Saeid Nahavandi, Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, Khashayar Khoshmanesh |
Abstract |
We present the thermal analysis of liquid containing Al(2)O(3) nanoparticles in a microfluidic platform using an infrared camera. The small dimensions of the microchannel along with the low flow rates (less than 120 μl min(-1)) provide very low Reynolds numbers of less than 17.5, reflecting practical parameters for a microfluidic cooling platform. The heat analysis of nanofluids has never been investigated in such a regime, due to the deficiencies of conventional thermal measurement systems. The infrared camera allows non-contact, three dimensional and high resolution capability for temperature profiling. The system was studied at different w/w concentrations of thermally conductive Al(2)O(3) nanoparticles and the experiments were in excellent agreement with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. |
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