Numerical Study of the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids

Nanofluids, that is liquids containing nanometer sized metallic or non-metallic solid nanoparticles show an increase in thermal conductivity compared to that of the base liquid. In this paper we present numerical results obtained from Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a solid-liquid system comprising of Lennard-Jones atoms used to study the liquid layering on solid nanoparticles. It is found that…