• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.37 no.10
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• pp.887-894
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• 2013

Effective thermal conductivity of nanofluids has been predicted by using generalized self-consistent model and modified Eshelby model, which have been used for analysis of material properties of composites. A nanolayer between base fluid and nanoparticle, one of key factors for abrupt enhancement of thermal conductivity of nanofluids, is included in the analysis. The effective thermal conductivities of the nanofluid predicted by the present study show good agreement with those by models in the literature for the nanolayer with a constant or linear thermal conductivity. The predicted results by the present approach have been confirmed to be consistent with experiments for representative nanofluids such as base fluids of water or ethyleneglycol and nanoparticles of $Al_2O_3$ or CuO to be validated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1245-1252
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• 1994

A solution of heat transfer problems of composite materials has been tried using homogenization technique. Homogenization technique, which was derived by applying asymptotic expansion to the standard finite element method, helped compute the equivalent thermal conductivity matrices of base cells which constituted the composite material with repeated patterns. The homogenization technique made it possible to compute the solution of the heat transfer problem of composite materials with lower degrees of freedom compared to those of other numerical methods. The equivalent thermal conductivities computed by computed by homogenization technique are also applicable to other numerical methods such as finite difference method.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.966-975
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• 1986

유한한 열전도율과 두께를 갖는 수평동심원관 내의 층류자연대류 문제를 유한차분법을 사용하여 수치적으로 연구하였다. 동심원관 내에는 전도-대류가 복합되어, 전체-유체 경계면에서의 온도분포는 미리 알려져 있지 않다. Prandtl수를 0.7, L/D$_{i}$ = 0.8로 고정하고 각각의 Rayleigh수와 열전도계수의 비, 기하학적변수에 대하여 계산을 수행하였으며, 그 결과를 등온 수평동심원관의 경우와 비교하였다. Rayleigh수와 t/D$_{i}$가 클수록, 열전도계수의 비 K가 작을수록 열저도 효과는 강하게 나타났으며, 국소등가전도계수와 온도분포에 비하여 속도분포는 영향을 덜 받는다는 것이 밝혀졌다.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.133-138
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• 2006

Effective thermal conductivity of particulate reinforced composite has been predicted by Eshelby's equivalent inclusion method modified with Mori-Tanaka's mean field theory. The predicted results are compared with the experimental results from the literature. The model composite is polymer matrix filled with ceramic particles such as silica, alumina, and aluminum nitride. The preliminary examination by Eshelby type model shows that the predicted results are in good agreements with the experimental results for the composite with perfect spherical filler. As the shape of filler deviates from the perfect sphere, the predicted error increases. By using the aspect ratio of the filler deduced from the fixed filler volume fraction of 30%, the predicted results coincide well with the experimental results for filler volume fraction of 40% or less. Beyond this fraction, the predicted error increases rapidly. It can be finally concluded from the study that Eshelby type model can be applied to predict the thermal conductivity of the particulate composite with filler volume fraction less than 40%.