Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NUMERICAL METHODS FOR HEAT & FLUID FLOW
Volume 31, Issue 5, Pages 1547-1567Publisher
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/HFF-07-2020-0442
Keywords
RSM; Taguchi method; Finite element method; 1-Butanol; Hybrid nanoparticle; Porous enclosure
Funding
- Iran's National Elites Foundation
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The study shows that Nuave is directly proportional to Rayleigh and nanoparticle shape factor, while inversely related to Hartmann and porosity. The results indicate that the shape factor parameter significantly affects heat transfer performance, contributing 55.44% to the average Nusselt number.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate natural convection in a porous wavy-walled enclosure that is including a cylinder cavity in the middle of it and filled with a hybrid nanofluid contains 1-Butanol as the base fluid and MoS2-Fe3O4 hybrid nanoparticles. Design/methodology/approach The domain of interest is bounded by constant temperature horizontal corrugated surfaces and isothermal vertical flat surfaces. The numerical outputs are explained in the type of isotherms, streamline and average Nusselt number with variations of the Rayleigh number, Hartmann number, nanoparticle shape factor and porosity of the porous medium. For solving the governing equations, the finite element method has been used. Findings The results show that Nuave is proportional to Rayleigh and nanoparticle shape factor directly as well as it has an inverse relation with Hartmann and porosity. The obtained results reveal that the shape factor parameter has a significant effect on the heat transfer performance, which shows a 55.44% contribution on the average Nusselt number. Originality/value As a novelty, to maximize the heat transfer performance in a corrugated walls enclosure, the optimal parameters have intended by using the response surface and Taguchi methods. Additionally, an accurate correlation for the average Nusselt number is developed with sensibly great precision.
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