Posts tagged nanofluids

Nanofluid Tapped to Cool Servers

September 14th, 2010

Sarah Long

Scientists at Sweden’s Institute of Technology have developed a nanofluid solution that could eventually be used to cool massive data centers and server farms. Researcher Mamoun Muhammed told CNN that his team had experimented with…read more

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Tiny Technology Making a Big Splash

April 12th, 2010

Sarah Long

Thermacore, Inc., a provider of heat pipe technology and other thermal management solutions, announced that Thermacore Europe is making progress as lead partner of an 8.3 million euro ($11.4M) European research project, NanoHex. The team…read more

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Cooling Electronics with Nanofluids: Laminar Convective Heat Transfer

February 1st, 2009

W. Y. Lai, and P. E. Phelan

Introduction Numerous reports over the past ten years or so have described the potential for nanofluids (suspensions of nanoparticles in liquids) to be applied as heat transfer fluids, because of the enhanced thermal conductivity and…read more

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Comparison Of Heat Transfer Rates Of Different Nanofluids On The Basis Of The Mouromtseff Number

August 1st, 2007

Debendra K. Das, Praveen K. Namburu, and Devdatta P. Kulkarni

Nanofluids are dispersions of nanometer-sized particles in a base fluid such as water, ethylene glycol or propylene glycol. In the last decade, nanofluids have attracted more attention as a new generation of coolants for various…read more

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