Develop the lattice Boltzmann method to simulate the slip velocity and temperature domain of buoyancy forces of FMWCNT nanoparticles in water through a micro flow imposed to the specified heat flux

Arash Karimipour, D’Orazio, Annunziata and Marjan Goodarzi

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018, vol. 509, issue C, 729-745

Abstract: Lattice Boltzmann method ability is improved to simulate the mixed convection of Water / FMWCNT nanofluid inside a two dimensional microchannel. The influences of gravity on hydrodynamic and thermal domains are studied while the microchannel walls are imposed by a constant thermal heat flux at three different case studies as no-gravity, Ri=1 and Ri=10. The flow Reynolds number is chosen as one and the liquid micro flow conditions are involved by B = 0.005, B = 0.01 and B = 0.02. The mass fraction of carbon nanotubes in water are selected as ϕ=0, ϕ=0.1% and ϕ=0.2%. Double population distribution functions of “f” and “g” are used in lattice Boltzmann method. To the best of author’s knowledge, there is no article concerned the way of heat flux boundary condition simulation by LBM considering the buoyancy forces effects on nanofluid slip velocity. Generate a rotational cell due to gravity in entrance region which leads to observe the negative slip velocity phenomenon can be presented as the several interesting achievements of this work.

Keywords: Lattice Boltzmann; Micro flow; Specified heat flux; Carbon nanotubes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2018.06.031

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