www.journals.saintgits.org Review paper A Review of Performance of Heat Pipe with Nanofluids

Copyright © 2014 IJRIST. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. With the modern era of miniaturization of equipments, heat pipes have attracted major attention in the field of heat transfer. Nanofluids also have attracted a notable attention in recent days due to its superior heat transport properties. This review aim to compile the effect of nanofluid in heat pipes. Performance of different nanoparticles and different base-fluids are investigated. Most of the papers reviewed here reported an enhancement in performance of heat pipes. Existence of an optimum concentration of nanoparticles in base fluid was also reported. Paper also presents a perspective on possible research application