Analysis of Heat Transfer in a Triangular Enclosure Filled with a Porous Medium Saturated with Magnetized Nanofluid Charged by an Exothermic Chemical Reaction

Raees-ul-Haq Muhammad

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2019, vol. 2019, 1-19

Abstract:

This paper intends to numerically study the steady-state free convection heat transfer in the presence of an exothermal chemical reaction governed by Arrhenius kinetics within a right-angled enclosure of triangular shape filled by porous media saturated with magnetized nanofluid. An approximation named as Darcy–Boussinesq approximation along with a nanofluid model mathematically propounded by Buongiorno has been implemented to model physical phenomenon representing fluid flow, heat transfer, and nanoparticle concentration. The mathematical equations in a dimensionless form describing the stream function for circulation of the fluid, the energy equation for heat, and nanoparticle volume fraction for concentration are solved using the finite difference method. The validity of the numerical procedure is established by comparing present results with the formerly available works in both statistical and graphical approaches. Streamlines, isotherms, and isoconcentrations are plotted and discussed for the various parametric regimes. The graphical description depicts that the average Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are the decreasing function of the Rayleigh number. The study revealed the accountable influence of model parameters such as thermophoresis and Brownian diffusion on the local Sherwood number, whereas a minimum impact on the local Nusselt number is observed.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1155/2019/7451967

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