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Unsteady flow and entropy analysis of nanofluids inside cubic porous container holding inserted body and wavy bottom wall

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Abstract Natural convection in a cubical porous container has been controlled by allowing the bottom wall to be of wavy shape and by inserting a conductive square cylinder inside of… Click to show full abstract

Abstract Natural convection in a cubical porous container has been controlled by allowing the bottom wall to be of wavy shape and by inserting a conductive square cylinder inside of it. This control process has been investigated transiently in this paper using an alumina-water nanofluid by implementing a numerical method based on the Galerkin weighted residual finite element method. The Darcy-Forchheimer model has been adopted. Isothermal conditions are imposed at the bottom wavy wall (cold) as well as at the vertical walls (hot). Five parameters have been altered to assess the controlling problems. These are the Darcy number, porosity, volume fraction of the nanoparticles, dimension of the central body and the number of undulations of the bottom surface. The results show that the Darcy number exhibits a larger influence on both the Nusselt number and the average temperature than the other parameters, such that when D a is raised from 10 − 6 to 10 − 2 the increase in the Nusselt number is about 30.7 at ϕ = 0.04 , whereas the percentages of increase due to raising ϕ from 0 to 4% is about 11.7, 3.7 and 5.9 at D a = 10 − 6 , 10 − 3 and 10 − 2 , respectively. It is also noticed that the entropy generation within the container is mainly due to the thermal irreversibility at lower values of the Darcy number and porosity, and at higher number of undulations and volume fraction of nanoparticles.

Keywords: porous container; container; number; bottom wall

Journal Title: International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
Year Published: 2021

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