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Numerical analysis of natural convection of Cu-water nanofluid filling triangular cavity with semicircular bottom wall

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JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY
Volume 135, Issue 6, Pages 3485-3497

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-018-7520-4

Keywords

Nanofluid; Natural convection; Magnetic field; CVFEM; Nusselt number

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This study provides numerical analysis of the free convection of copper-water-based nanofluid filling a triangular cavity with semicircular bottom wall. The cavity sidewalls are maintained at cold temperature, while the semicircular wall is maintained at hot temperature. The other wall segments are thermally insulated. To control the energy transport within the cavity, a uniform magnetic field is applied horizontally. The physical domain is discretized according to the control volume finite element method which has been used to solve the governing equations. The physical and geometrical aspects of the current problem are investigated by inspecting the impacts of Rayleigh number, Hartman number, aspect ratio and the volume fraction of the Cu nanoparticles. Decreasing the radius of the hot semicircle enlarges the average Nusselt number at the absence of the magnetic field. When the magnetic field is applied, this effect is conversed within Ra ae 10(4). This conversed impact does not hold up when Ra is raised to 10(5). The numerical results are correlated in a sophisticated correlation of the average Nusselt number with other parameters.

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