Numerical study of radiative impacts on a magneto-convective flow confined an inclined two-sided wavy enclosure using hybrid nanofluid

Abstract

Abstract Numerical simulations are carried out for a buoyancy-driven flow of hybrid nanofluids within an inclined two-sided wavy enclosure. The vertical wavy walls are mentioned to a relatively low temperature while two heated sections are placed in the top and bottom walls. An inclined electromagnetic force is considered together with impacts of the thermal radiation in the vertical direction. Method of the solution is consisting of two steps, namely, the first step is mapping the irregular domain to regular computational domain and the second step is discretization the resulting domain equations using the finite difference method. It is focused on influences of the radiation, magnetic field, undulation number, lengths and locations of the active sections. The main outcomes disclosed that an alteration in the radiation parameter enhances the rate of the heat transfer while various configurations of the hybrid nanofluid flow are obtained as the undulation number and the cavity inclination angle are varied.