Viscosity Analysis Study of Heat Conducting Oil-Based Nanofluids
Nanofluid has strong advantages in heat transfer performance and it is an efficient heat transfer medium.Viscosity is also one of nanofluid's the important characteristics.There were more studies on nanofluids with water as the base fluid,while the studies with heat conducting oil as the base fluid were less.This paper mainly analyses the affecting factors of oil-based nanofluids'viscosity and summarizes the theoretical calculation model of viscosity.Study and analyzes the reliability and accuracy of the theoretical calculation results on the basis of the existing experimental data in the literature.The results show that the theoretically calculated values are closer to the actual values when the volume fraction of nanoparticles is lower and the temperature increases.But a large amount of experimental data is still needed for verification.