The effect of thermal and mass stratification on mixed convection boundary layer flow over a vertical flat plate embedded in a porous medium saturated by a nanofluid has been investigated. The vertical plate is maintained at uniform and constant heat, mass and nanoparticle fluxes, and the behavior of the porous medium is described by the Darcy model. The model considered for nanofluids incorporates the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. In addition, the thermal energy equations include regular diffusion and cross-diffusion terms. A suitable coordinate transformation is introduced, and the obtained system of non-similar, coupled and non-linear partial differential equations is solved numerically. The influence of pertinent parameters on the non-dimensional velocity, temperature, concentration and nanoparticle volume fraction are discussed. In addition, the variation of heat, mass and nanoparticle transfer rates at the plate are exhibited graphically for different values of physical parameters.
This work investigates the generation of entropy in the presence of a heat source/sink in a sloping channel filled with porous medium in magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid flow. The regulating equations are nonlinear and coupled thermal and hydrodynamic equations. Homotopy analysis method is used in the handling of equations. Comparisons with existing literature have been produced and were discovered to be in excellent accord, which are a particular situation of the present issue. The impact on entropy generation, Bejan number, Nusselt number and skin friction of pertinent fluid parameters is addressed, developed and displayed graphically. Entropy generation was found to be minimum just above the center of the channel throughout the study. Skin friction and Nusselt number were found to be higher for the case of heat generation than heat absorption.
In this study, entropy generation analysis for Cu-water nanofluid mixed convective flow in an inclined channel occupied with a saturated porous media with Navier slip and convective boundary conditions is explored. The governing equations composed of equations of velocity and temperature are nondimensionalized and then solved utilizing the technique of homotopy analysis. Temperature and velocity profile expressions are acquired, which are then used to calculate the entropy produced in the scheme. The impacts of the corresponding fluid parameters are addressed in-depth on velocity, temperature, entropy generation, Bejan number,Nusselt number, skin friction, volume flow rate, and heat carried out by the fluid for 1% nanofluid concentration. Entropy has been observed to be minimal in all cases just above the channel center and maximum at the channel's bottom wall. Fluid friction-generated entropy has been discovered to have a higher influence on entropy generation. We also provide a comparative study with existing literature to validate our current results.
K E Y W O R D Sconvective boundary, entropy, inclined channel, mixed convection, nanofluid, Navier slip
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