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Dependence of the viscosity of nanouids on nanoparticle size and 78
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V.Ya. Rudyak, S.L. Krasnolutskii
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17 Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Str. Leningradskaya 113, 630008 Novosibirsk, Russia 83
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20 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t 86
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22 Article history: The viscosity of nanouids as a function of nanoparticle size and material is modeled and analyzed. 88
Received 23 January 2014 Dependences of the viscosity of nanouids based on liquid argon with aluminum and lithium
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Received in revised form 28 April 2014 nanoparticles are obtained. The nanoparticle size ranges from 1 to 4 nm. The volume concentration
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of nanoparticles is varied from 1% to 12%. It is shown that the viscosity of the nanouid increases with
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Communicated by R. Wu
decreasing nanoparticle size and, in addition, depends on the nanoparticle material.
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Keywords:
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Nanouid
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1. Introduction ity of these uids (Einstein, Batchelor, Mooney Akrivos and Chang, 101
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Krieger, etc.). It has further been found that the effective viscosity 102
37 A nanouid is a two-phase system consisting of a carrier uid of nanouids depends not only on the concentration of nanopar- 103
38 and nanoparticles. Even today it can be argued that nanouids are ticles, but also on their size. Evidence for this has been provided 104
39 a very promising material. They have been used or are planned to by molecular dynamics simulations for the hard-sphere potential 105
40 be used in a variety of chemical reactors and plants, including cat- [4,5] as well as by experiments [3,68]. Recent studies have shown 106
41 alytic ones, for cooling various devices, in the development of new that at a given nanoparticle concentration, the viscosity of nanou- 107
42 systems of heat production and transportation, in biotechnology, ids increases with decreasing nanoparticle size. However, opposite 108
43 nanotechnology, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for data have also been reported [9,10]. Thus, the question of how the 109
44 various purposes, in the design of new drugs and cosmetic prod- viscosity of nanouids depends on the nanoparticle size is still rel- 110
45 ucts, for the delivery of drugs, in the development of systems for evant. Answering this question is the rst objective of this work. 111
46 detecting various contaminants and cleaning air and water, in the Obtaining experimental data on the viscosity of nanouids is 112
47 development of new lubricants, paints, varnishes, construction ma- complicated by several factors: diculties in producing monodis- 113
48 terials, etc. perse suspensions, various methodical problems of accurate mea- 114
49 The specic small sizes of nanoparticles are responsible for surement of particle size, concentration, uniformity of size dis- 115
50 their very special properties. Due to this, nanouids also have spe- tribution, the formation of agglomerated particles, etc. An ideal 116
51 cial properties which cannot be described by classical theories. experiment with a monodisperse nanouid can be performed us- 117
52 Since nearly all applications of nanouids are related to channel ing molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of its viscosity. It is this 118
53 ows, viscosity is a determining factor in their use. The consid- method which is used in the present work to simulate the shear 119
54 erable practical importance of this problem has led several dozen viscosity of nanouids. However, unlike in [4,5], here we use real 120
55 research groups in different countries to undertake experimental interaction potentials, and not the hard-sphere potential. 121
56 studies of the viscosity of nanouids over the last ten to fteen In [3], it is noted that the viscosity of nanouids may also de- 122
57 years (see reviews [13]). It has been well established that the pend on the nanoparticle material. This correlates with the data 123
58 viscosity of nanouids is much higher than the viscosity of con- of the kinetic theory of gas nanosuspensions where this depen- 124
59 ventional dispersions at equal volume concentrations of dispersed dence has been well established [11,12]. The rst MD calculations 125
60 particles and is not described by any classical theory of the viscos- have conrmed the existence of this dependence [13]. Obtaining 126
61 systematic data that would give an unambiguous answer to the 127
62 question of the dependence of the viscosity of nanouids on the 128
63 E-mail address: valery.rudyak@mail.ru (V.Ya. Rudyak). nanoparticle material is the second objective of this paper. We 129
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1 studied the viscosity of model nanouids in which the carrier the parameters 12 , 12 and , . The simulation was performed as 67
2 uid was argon of density = 0.707 and temperature T = 300 K. follows. Carrieruid molecules and nanoparticles were uniformly 68
3 The dispersed component was lithium and aluminum nanoparti- placed in the simulation cell according to the specied values of 69
4 cles with a diameter from one to four nanometers. The number the density of the carrieruid and the volume concentration of 70
5 of argon molecules in the simulation cell was varied from 7000 to nanoparticles. The density of the pure uid was determined by the 71
6 14,800, and the number of nanoparticles from 1 to 64. The vol- parameters: = N 3 / V and = V / V 0 , where V is the volume of 72
7 ume concentration of nanoparticles was varied from 1% to 12%. the system (cell), V 0 = N 3 / 2 is the volume of close packing of 73
8 The obtained data were averaged over 2000 independent phase N molecules. The volume of the simulation cell for the nanouid 74
9 trajectories. The typical computation time for a single point on was given by the relation V = N 1 3 / 2 + 4 k V N 2 R 3 /3, where 75
10 a personal computer (single-core Intel Core 2) was about 500 h. N 1 and N 2 are the number of molecules and nanoparticles, respec- 76
11 The computational complexity and time naturally increases with tively. With the addition of nanoparticles, the coecient k V was 77
12 increasing number of molecules and nanoparticles in the simula- chosen so that the nanouid pressure was equal to the pressure of 78
13 tion cell and with increasing size and mass of nanoparticles. pure argon of the given density. 79
14 The initial velocities of molecules were specied according to 80
15 2. Simulation technique the Maxwell distribution at the given temperature, and those of 81
16 nanoparticles were set equal to zero. The calculation was started 82
17 In the simulation, we employed a standard molecular dynamics after an initial relaxation period, during which the whole system 83
18 method (see, e.g., [14,15]). A cubic cell and periodic boundary con- had come to equilibrium. The Newton equations were integrated 84
19 ditions were used. Interaction between the molecules of the carrier using Schoelds scheme [19]. 85
20 uid was described by the LennardJones potential Since the potentials used here have an innite range, they 86
21 should be truncated during the simulation. For potential (1), the 87
22 L J (r ) = 4 ( /r )12 ( /r )6 , (1) truncation radius was 2.5 , and for potential (2), it was (R + b12 ). 88
23 The value of b was chosen so that at the truncation radius for 89
where is the effective diameter of the uid molecules, is the
24 potential (2), the force exerted on a molecule by a nanoparticle 90
depth of the potential well, and r = |ri r j | is the distance between
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molecules i and j.
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Interaction between carrieruid molecules and a nanoparticle
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was described by the RudyakKrasnolutskii (RK) potential [16,17].
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29 of the nanoparticles was 2 nm) in Ar, b was equal to 3.78, and for 95
(r ) = 9 (r ) 3 (r ),
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nanoparticle should not interact with itself, the side length of the
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38 cubic cell L should be much greater than the range of the potential 104
nanoparticle material, m p is the mass of the molecule (atom) of
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the nanoparticle, R is the radius of the nanoparticle, i j , i j are the
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parameters of the interaction potential (1) between a carrieruid
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molecule and a molecule of the nanoparticle.
42 were as follows: = 3.405 and /k B = 119.8 K [20]. The param- 108
As the nanoparticle interaction potential we use a specially con-
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structed potential [18], which for monodisperse nanoparticles has
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46 U (r , R ) = U 7 (r , R ) U 1 (r , R ), (3) The latter parameters were obtained from data on Youngs mod- 112
47 ulus and the structure of the crystal lattice (face-centered cubic) 113
48 where using a method similar to that described in [22]. The parameters 114
12 and 12 were determined using the simple combinational re-
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50 U 7 (r , R ) = + + lations: 12 = and 12 = . 116
315 V p2 r (r 2R )7 r7 (r + 2R )7 Shear viscosity was calculated from the GreenKubo formula
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N Contributions of different components to the viscosity of nanouids (Pa s).
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kB T V 117.4 169.8 182.9
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data, it appears that, rst, although the overall viscosity of nanou-
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the average kinetic energy of the molecules and nanoparticles. It 107
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44 k =1 l =1 i = j (viscosity) is small: for argon, it is about 11%, and for the nanou- 110
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kp = m xi y i (t ) F x,kl ykl (t + t 1 ) dt 1 the cross terms kp (fth row in Table 1) is small and is about ten 114
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52 + m xi y i (t ) F x,kl ykl (t + t 1 ) dt 1 . and the correlations between moleculemolecule and molecule 118
53 =1,2 0 i =1 k =1 l =1 nanoparticle interactions. Dependence of value of these contribu- 119
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55 estimating. Let there be particles with radiuses R 1 and R 2 , for 121
56 The table shows a comparison of each of the contributions for deniteness we will consider that R 2 > R 1 . At the given volume 122
57 argon and the two nanouids considered. In both cases, the con- concentration numbers of those and other particles in a unit vol- 123
58 centration of nanoparticles was equal to = 0.097, and the diam- ume are in inverse proportion to cubes of their radiuses: N 2 / N 1 = 124
59 eter of the nanoparticles was 2 nm. The pressure of all three uids R 31 / R 32 . On the other hand, total cross-sections of scattering of 125
60 was the same and equal to the pressure of pure Ar at a density molecules of a carrying uid with those and with other parti- 126
61 = 0.707 and a temperature T = 300 K. The sixth row of the ta- cles are accordingly equal S 1 = N 1 R 21 and S 2 = N 2 R 22 . Therefore 127
62 ble shows the potential contribution to the viscosity due to the the ratio of these cross-sections which determine value of consid- 128
63 interaction of argon molecules, the seventh row shows the poten- ered potential contributions, appears to be inversely proportional 129
64 tial contribution due to the correlation between the intermolecular to their radiuses: S 2 / S 1 = R 1 / R 2 . These simple estimations show 130
65 forces and the interaction forces of the molecules with the parti- that with growth of particle sizes the relative value of these con- 131
66 cle (the third term in formula (11)). Finally, the last row shows the tributions will decrease. In conclusion, two things must be pointed 132
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