Title
Energy and Entropy Production of Nanofluid within an Annulus Partly Saturated by a Porous Region
Abstract
The flow and heat transfer fields from a nanofluid within a horizontal annulus partly saturated with a porous region are examined by the Galerkin weighted residual finite element technique scheme. The inner and the outer circular boundaries have hot and cold temperatures, respectively. Impacts of the wide ranges of the Darcy number, porosity, dimensionless length of the porous layer, and nanoparticle volume fractions on the streamlines, isotherms, and isentropic distributions are investigated. The primary outcomes revealed that the stream function value is powered by increasing the Darcy parameter and porosity and reduced by growing the porous region's area. The Bejan number and the average temperature are reduced by the increase in Da, porosity epsilon, and nanoparticles volume fractions phi. The heat transfer through the nanofluid-porous layer was determined to be the best toward high rates of Darcy number, porosity, and volume fraction of nanofluid. Further, the local velocity and local temperature in the interface surface between nanofluid-porous layers obtain high values at the smallest area from the porous region (D=0.4), and in contrast, the local heat transfer takes the lower value.</p>
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/e23101237
ENTROPY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
natural convection, horizontal annulus, nanofluid-porous cavity, Darcy-Forchheimer model, entropy production
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1099-4300
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zehba A S Raizah100.34
Ammar I. Alsabery223.15
Abdelraheem Mahmoud Aly351.11
Ishak Hashim400.34