期刊
ENTROPY
卷 24, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/e24101448
关键词
natural convection; nanofluid; thermal lattice Boltzmann flux solver; immersed boundary method
资金
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2020YFB0311500]
In this study, mathematical modeling was used to simulate natural convection of a nanofluid in a square enclosure. The influences of Rayleigh number and nanoparticle volume fraction on flow characteristics were investigated. The results showed that heat transfer was enhanced with higher Rayleigh number and nanoparticle volume fraction. The study also used the immersed boundary method and lattice model to handle boundary conditions.
In the present study, mathematical modeling was performed to simulate natural convection of a nanofluid in a square enclosure using the thermal lattice Boltzmann flux solver (TLBFS). Firstly, natural convection in a square enclosure, filled with pure fluid (air and water), was investigated to validate the accuracy and performance of the method. Then, influences of the Rayleigh number, of nanoparticle volume fraction on streamlines, isotherms and average Nusselt number were studied. The numerical results illustrated that heat transfer was enhanced with the augmentation of Rayleigh number and nanoparticle volume fraction. There was a linear relationship between the average Nusselt number and solid volume fraction. and there was an exponential relationship between the average Nusselt number and Ra. In view of the Cartesian grid used by the immersed boundary method and lattice model, the immersed boundary method was chosen to treat the no-slip boundary condition of the flow field, and the Dirichlet boundary condition of the temperature field, to facilitate natural convection around a bluff body in a square enclosure. The presented numerical algorithm and code implementation were validated by means of numerical examples of natural convection between a concentric circular cylinder and a square enclosure at different aspect ratios. Numerical simulations were conducted for natural convection around a cylinder and square in an enclosure. The results illustrated that nanoparticles enhance heat transfer in higher Rayleigh number, and the heat transfer of the inner cylinder is stronger than that of the square at the same perimeter.
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