Nanofluids and Their Engineering Applications
暫譯: 奈米流體及其工程應用

奈米流體是由固體奈米顆粒懸浮在液體中所組成的固液複合材料，具有增強的熱性能。本書介紹了基本的流體力學、流體中的傳導與對流，以及奈米流體的奈米材料、性質特徵和奈米流體在太陽能技術、加工及其他特殊應用中的概述。最近對奈米流體的實驗顯示，與不含奈米顆粒或較大顆粒的液體相比，熱導率顯著提高，熱導率對溫度的依賴性強，以及在沸騰熱傳遞中臨界熱通量的顯著增加，這些內容均在本書中涵蓋。

主要特色

- 獨特的書名專注於奈米流體的利基工程應用
- 包含高技術內容，特別是在磁性奈米流體和稀釋氧化物基奈米流體的領域
- 提供來自研究應用的範例，如太陽能技術和熱管
- 討論熱傳遞和熱力學特性，如效率和功，並具數學嚴謹性
- 內容專注，具有精確的技術定義和處理

Prof. KRV Subramanian is working as Associate Professor with Mechanical engineering department, GITAM University, Bangalore, India. His research interests are solar technology, nanotechnology, nanofabrication, energy storage devices, carbon nanotubes, nanofluids, hydrogen storage, fuel cells, sensors. He earned his PhD from Cambridge University in 2006 specialising in nanotechnology. His bachelors and masters degree in Materials engineering were from NIT Trichy and IISc Bangalore. He has over 20 years of academic and industrial work experience. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers. He has also edited 2 books. He regularly reviews for prestigious RSC, ACS and Elsevier journals. He is an affiliate member of RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) and Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society, UK. He is a Marquis Who's Who of the World and IBC Top 100 professionals. He has been co-principal investigator for many government funded research projects.

Prof. T. Nageswara Rao works as HOD and Professor with Mechanical Engineering Department, GITAM University, Bangalore, India. He earned his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai in 2001 specializing in thermal engineering. He has over 25　years of academic and industrial work experience. He has published over 30 journal and conference papers.

Dr. Avinash Balakrishnan is Manager at Suzlon Energy Limited in 2016 and heads the Materials Laboratory for Suzlon Blade Technology vertical. He has a PhD and MS in Materials Engineering from Paichai University, S. Korea and is an alumnus of National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, where he completed his bachelor's in metallurgical engineering. He was a research scientist at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), South Korea where he extensively worked on ceramic materials for structural and high temperature applications, a post-doctoral fellow at Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble-INP), France, and headed the R&D division for English Indian Clay Limited, India from 2015 to 2016. He has co-authored over 85 research publications, 2 books, and filed 1 patent.

KRV Subramanian 教授 目前擔任印度班加羅爾 GITAM 大學機械工程系的副教授。他的研究興趣包括太陽能技術、奈米技術、奈米製造、能源儲存裝置、碳奈米管、奈米流體、氫儲存、燃料電池和感測器。他於 2006 年在劍橋大學獲得奈米技術專業的博士學位，並在 NIT Trichy 和印度科學院班加羅爾獲得材料工程的學士和碩士學位。他擁有超過 20 年的學術和工業工作經驗，已發表超過 100 篇期刊和會議論文，並編輯了 2 本書籍。他定期為 RSC、ACS 和 Elsevier 等知名期刊進行審稿。他是 RSC（英國皇家化學學會）的附屬會員，也是劍橋英聯邦學會的院士。他是《世界名人錄》（Marquis Who's Who of the World）和 IBC 前 100 名專業人士之一。他曾擔任多個政府資助研究項目的共同首席研究員。

T. Nageswara Rao 教授 擔任印度班加羅爾 GITAM 大學機械工程系的系主任和教授。他於 2001 年在印度理工學院金奈獲得熱能工程專業的博士學位，擁有超過 25 年的學術和工業工作經驗，已發表超過 30 篇期刊和會議論文。

Avinash Balakrishnan 博士 於 2016 年在 Suzlon Energy Limited 擔任經理，負責 Suzlon Blade Technology 部門的材料實驗室。他擁有來自南韓培材大學的材料工程博士和碩士學位，並且是卡納塔克國立技術學院的校友，於該校完成冶金工程的學士學位。他曾在韓國標準科學研究院（KRISS）擔任研究科學家，專注於結構和高溫應用的陶瓷材料，並在法國格勒諾布爾技術學院（Grenoble-INP）擔任博士後研究員，於 2015 年至 2016 年期間擔任印度英印粘土有限公司的研發部門負責人。他共同撰寫了超過 85 篇研究出版物、2 本書籍，並申請了 1 項專利。