@Article{
C2LC40222J,
author ="Yi, Pyshar and Kayani, Aminuddin A. and Chrimes, Adam F. and Ghorbani, Kamran and Nahavandi, Saeid and Kalantar-zadeh, Kourosh and Khoshmanesh, Khashayar",
title  ="Thermal analysis of nanofluids in microfluidics using an infrared camera",
journal  ="Lab Chip",
year  ="2012",
volume  ="12",
issue  ="14",
pages  ="2520-2525",
publisher  ="The Royal Society of Chemistry",
doi  ="10.1039/C2LC40222J",
url  ="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2LC40222J",
abstract  ="We present the thermal analysis of liquid containing Al2O3 nanoparticles in a microfluidic platform using an infrared camera. The small dimensions of the microchannel along with the low flow rates (less than 120 [small mu ]l min-1) provide very low Reynolds numbers of less than 17.5{,} reflecting practical parameters for a microfluidic cooling platform. The heat analysis of nanofluids has never been investigated in such a regime{,} due to the deficiencies of conventional thermal measurement systems. The infrared camera allows non-contact{,} three dimensional and high resolution capability for temperature profiling. The system was studied at different w/w concentrations of thermally conductive Al2O3 nanoparticles and the experiments were in excellent agreement with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations."}