Pool boiling using nanofluids: A review

Abstract

Nanofluids have found their applications in various fields of heat transfer and their demand in various industries in ever growing. Pool boiling of nanofluids has always been a topic of great interest and research. In past years, a lot of experimental works have been done on various nanofluids and base fluid solutions to study about the influence of nanofluids on critical heat flux and heat transfer coefficient. Through these works, various factors such as surface roughness, wettability, contact angle, and particle deposition have also been studied as how these factors influence CHF. This paper also focuses on the past work and studies done on nanofluid pool boiling comprising of the very existing data.