MHD natural convection from two heating modes in fined triangular enclosures filled with porous media using nanofluids

In this paper, numerical investigations for magnetohydrodynamic natural convection from two heating systems inside fined triangular enclosures filled with an isotropic porous medium using the nanofluids are performed. The two heating modes are represented by two cases, namely, case 1 a triangular enclosure with a heated part at the left wall and including a cold fin at the bottom wall and case 2 in which a cold part at the left wall and a heated fin located at the bottom wall. The copper is considered as nanoparticles and the Darcy model is applied to the porous medium. The triangular physical model is transformed to a rectangular computational model using suitable grid transformations and then the finite-volume method is applied to solve the resulting system. The key parameters in this study are the height, width and locations of the fin, different lengths and locations of the active part, nanoparticles volume fraction, heat generation/absorption parameter, and the Hartmann number. The results revealed that the increase in height of the fins decays the nanofluid flow in case 1, but in case 2, it accelerates the fluid motion. In addition, the increase in width and height of the fin enhances the rate of the heat transfer regardless the heating mode.