Inhomogeneous flow model of natural convection, entropy generation, and heatlines visualization in wavy I‐shaped enclosure with rectangular heater

Abstract

AbstractThe present investigation is on examination of the natural convection and entropy generation considering the heatlines visualization of nanofluid I‐shaped enclosure with two corrugated walls considering inner rectangular heater of three different heights. The influence of Brownian motion along with thermophoresis had been implemented using Inhomogeneous two‐phase model of nanofluid. The governing equations were solved numerically using COMSOL software. Influence of Rayleigh number , Buoyancy ratio number , Lewis number , heater length . The results indicate that the influence of Lewis number on heat transfer bettering is stronger at high Rayleigh number while its impact is negligible at a lower value of Rayleigh number (conduction mode). In addition, the total entropy generation gets its highest value at Lewis number . Bejan number, fluid flow strength and heat rate increase as the rectangular heater height increases. Also, higher heat transfer augmentation is taken when the heater height is while increasing the heater height to leads to more total entropy generation. The impact of heater height on total entropy generation is highly affected by Rayleigh number as increasing the heater height from into , total entropy generation increases by at while it increases by at .