This paper examines the natural convection in a square enclosure filled with a water-Al2O3 nanofluid which is under the influence of an external magnetic field. The bottom wall is uniformly heated and vertical walls are linearly heated whereas the top wall is well insulated. Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is applied to solve the coupled equations of flow and temperature fields. This study has been carried out for the pertinent parameters in the following ranges: Rayleigh number of the base fluid, Ra = 10 3 to 10 5 , Hartmann number varied from Ha = 0 to 60, the inclination angle of the magnetic field relative to the horizontal plane γ = 0 • to 180 • and the solid volume fraction of the nanoparticles between φ = 0 and 6%. The results show that the heat transfer rate increases with an increase of the Rayleigh number but it decreases with an increase of the Hartmann number. Also for Ra 5×10 4 and for the range of Hartmann number study, we note that the heat transfer and fluid flow depends strongly upon the direction of magnetic field. In addition, according the Hartmann number, it observed that the magnetic field direction controls the effects of nanoparticles. A. Mahmoudi et al. / MHD natural convection in a nanofluid-filled cavity with linear temperature distribution
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