Sivaraj, C (2022) Numerical simulation of thermo-magnetic convection and entropy production in a ferrofluid filled square chamber with effects of heat generating solid body. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 131. pp. 1-16. ISSN 0735-1933

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Abstract

Thermo-magnetic convection and entropy production are the most widely used subjects of study in the field of an
effective design tools for cooling electronic devices. The present work focuses on numerical simulation of thermomagnetic convection cooling of the heat-generating solid block placed in a magnetite suspended nanoliquid filled
chamber. The surfaces of the horizontal borders of the chamber are thermally insulated whilst the vertical
borders are cooled at a constant temperature. The finite volume technique with a simple algorithm on a uniform
staggered grid is employed to transform the governing non-linear PDE into a set of discretized equations. The
liquid motion, thermal transmission, and entropy production are discussed for various pertinent parameters such
as solid volume fractions of the nano-additive (φ = 0.01 − 0.04), aspect ratio of a heat-generating solid body
(As = 0.25 − 4), thermal conductivity ratio of the heat generating body (0.1 ≤ k * ≤5.0), Hartmann number
(Ha = 0 − 50) and irreversibility ratio (Ω = 0.001 − 0.1) . Isolines of temperature, stream function, normalized
entropy along with profiles of mean Nusselt number and mean entropy production outcomes are demonstrated
graphically. The results showed that reduction in aspect ratio increases the cooling efficiency due to the
hindrance-free effect and produces a high heat transfer rate. Minimum entropy production occurs at low thermal
conductivity ratio (k * =0.1) . The thermal performance criterion also justifies that the least aspect ratio manifests better thermal performance.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Thermo-magnetic convection Entropy production Magnetite nanoparticle Ferroliquid Heat generating solid body
Divisions: PSG College of Arts and Science > Department of Mathematics
Depositing User: Mr Team Mosys
Date Deposited: 15 Mar 2023 09:59
Last Modified: 15 Mar 2023 09:59
URI: http://ir.psgcas.ac.in/id/eprint/1784

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