The Semi-empirical Approach for Newtonian Nanofluids Viscosity Predicting

Abstract

In this study, we develop a semi-empirical approach to model the viscosity of Newtonian nanofluids. For nanofluid viscosity predicting in a wide range of temperature and mass fractions of the nanoparticles, the limited experimental data on base fluid and nanofluid of one mass fraction of nanoparticles are required (viscosity at one temperature and density at two or more temperatures). The verification of the proposed approach using experimental data on two types of nanofluids with metal oxide nanoparticles has been performed.