Abstract
Background: The heat transfer and fluid flow within a lid-driven, inclined, square cavity containing three circular heat sources are investigated. The enclosure is filled with DWCNT-water nanofluid. The effects of some important parameters, such as Richardson number, inclination angle, solid volume concentration and aspect ratio, are studied based on streamline, temperature field and average Nusselt number. The study is performed for Richardson numbers ranging from 0.01 to 100, inclination angles ranging from 0 to 60°, aspect ratios ranging from 0.05 to 0.15 and solid volume fractions up to 0.004.
Method: The finite volume method and the SIMPLER algorithm are employed to solve the governing mass, momentum and energy equations numerically. The first step in discretizing the governing equations is to generate a finite difference mesh in the computational domain. A control volume is generated around each node of the mesh afterwards. The governing equations are then integrated over each control volume. In order to obtaine a stable solutions the diffusion terms are replaced using from the second-order central difference scheme, with a hybrid scheme for the convective terms for convection-dominated cases. Results: According to the results, as the Richardson number increases, the average Nusselt number decreases. Furthermore, at a constant solid volume fraction for R/L=0.05 and R/L=0.1, as the inclination angle increases from 0 to 30o at Ri = 0.01, the average Nusselt number enhances. The maximum and minimum enhancements of the average Nusselt number for this case are 2.35% and 0.79%, occurring to φ=0.004 and 0, respectively. Conclusion: The general behavior of the streamlines and isotherms for nanofluid and pure fluid is similar, but there are differences in terms of the lines. One of the differences is the formation of an inner vortex inside the larger vortex, which occurred for nanofluids at all Richardson numbers while was not observed for pure fluid. For all Richardson numbers, inclination angles and aspect ratios, as the solid volume fraction increases, the average Nusselt number is enhanced. For all the considered cases, as the Richardson number increases, the average Nusselt number decreases.Keywords: Nanofluid, heat transfer, heat source, DWCNT – Water, Nusselt number, lid-driven cavity.
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