Table 2 Thermophysical features (density, thermal conductivity, specific heat) of base fluid and nanoparticles.

From: Significance of Dufour and Soret aspects on dynamics of water based ternary hybrid nanofluid flow in a 3D computational domain

Nanoparticles and base fluid

\(\rho\) (kg m−3)

\(k\) (w m−1 K−1)

\({c}_{p}\) (JK−1 kg−1)

Nanoparticles shapes

Water

997.1

0.613

4179

 

Ternary carbon nanotubes

2100

3007.4

410

Spherical

Hybrid graphene

2200

5000

790

Cylindrical

Nanofluid 1 aluminium oxide

3970

40

765

Platelet

Ternary copper oxide

6500

20

535.6

Spherical

Hybrid copper

8933

400

385

Cylindrical

Nanofluid 2 silver

10,500

429

235

Platelet

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