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Entropy generation and heat transport of Cu–water nanoliquid in porous lid-driven cavity through magnetic field

Souad Marzougui (Industrial Chemistry and Processes and Civil Engineering Departments, High Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Gabès, Tunisia)
Fateh Mebarek-Oudina (Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Universite du 20 août 1955-Skikda, Skikda, Algeria)
Mourad Magherbi (Civil Engineering Department, High Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Gabès, Tunisia)
Ali Mchirgui (Civil Engineering Department, High Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Gabès, Tunisia)

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow

ISSN: 0961-5539

Article publication date: 6 September 2021

Issue publication date: 16 May 2022

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of Ha and the Nanoparticles (NP) volume fraction over the irreversibility and heat transport in Darcy–Forchheimer nanofluid saturated lid-driven porous medium.

Design/methodology/approach

The present paper highlights entropy generation because of mixed convection for a lid-driven porous enclosure filled through a nanoliquid and submitted to a uniform magnetic field. The analysis is achieved using Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer technique. The set of partial differential equations governing the considered system was numerically solved using the finite element method.

Findings

The main observations are as follows. The results indicate that the movement of horizontal wall is an important factor for the entropy generation inside the porous cavity filled through Cu–water nanoliquid. The variation of the thermal entropy generation is linear through NPs volume fraction. The total entropy generation reduces when the Darcy, Hartmann and the nanoparticle volume fraction increase. The porous media and magnetic field effects reduce the total entropy generation.

Practical implications

Interest in studying thermal interactions by convective flow within a saturating porous medium has many fundamental considerations and has received extensive consideration in the literature because of its usefulness in a large variety of engineering applications, such as the energy storage and solar collectors, crystal growth, food processing, nuclear reactors and cooling of electronic devices, etc.

Originality/value

By examining the literature, the authors found that little attention has been paid to entropy generation encountered during convection of nanofluids. Hence, this work aims to numerically study entropy generation and heat transport in a lid-driven porous enclosure filled with a nanoliquid.

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Citation

Marzougui, S., Mebarek-Oudina, F., Magherbi, M. and Mchirgui, A. (2022), "Entropy generation and heat transport of Cu–water nanoliquid in porous lid-driven cavity through magnetic field", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 32 No. 6, pp. 2047-2069. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-04-2021-0288

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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