Experimental investigation of the effects of temperature and nanoparticles volume fraction on the viscosity of Newtonian hybrid nanofluid

In this paper, an experimental study has been conducted on the rheological behavior of Water (80%) and Ethylene-glycol (20%) in presence of Al2O3-MWCNTs hybrid nanomaterials. For this purpose, nanofluid samples were prepared by suspending the nanomaterials in a mixture of water and EG with solid volume fractions of 0.0625%, 0.125%, 0.25% and 0.5% Viscosity measurements were performed at various shear rates and in the temperatures range of 25 to 50⁰C. Experimental data showed that all hybrid nanofluid samples had Newtonian behavior. also Results showed that nanofluid viscosity decreased with increasing temperature and augmented with increasing the volume fraction. Eventually, a new accurate correlation was developed to assist the calculation of the viscosity of the Al2O3-MWCNTs/water-EG at different temperatures and volume fractions.