MHD forced convection and entropy generation of CuO-water nanofluid in a microchannel considering slip velocity and temperature jump

Flow field, heat transfer and entropy generation of forced convection of CuO-water nanofluid is investigated in a parallel plate microchannel in the presence of magnetic field. Two vertical micromixers are attached on the hot walls of the microchannel. To consider the effect of the Brownian motion of the nanoparticles, the KKL model is utilized to estimate thermal conductivity of the nanofluid. The governing equations, which are accompanied with the slip velocity and temperature jump boundary conditions, are solved by the finite volume method (FVM) and SIMPLER algorithm. The study is conducted for the Reynolds numbers in the range of 10 < Re < 100, Hartmann numbers in the range of 0 < Ha < 40, Knudsen numbers ranging of 0 < Kn < 0.1 and volume fraction of nanoparticles ranging of 0 < phi < 0.04. The results show that when the Hartmann or Reynolds numbers, or the volume fraction of nanoparticles increase, the average Nusselt number and the total entropy generation rate increase. Furthermore, when Knudsen number increases, the total entropy generation rate decreases.