Rotating cylinder and magnetic field on solid particles diffusion inside a porous cavity filled with a nanofluid

Abstract

This study deals with the roles of a magnetic field and circular rotation of a circular cylinder on the dissemination of solid phase within a nanofluid-filled square cavity. Two wavy layers of the non-Darcy porous media are situated on the vertical sides of a cavity. An incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (ISPH) method was endorsed to carry out the blending process concerning solid phase into nanofluid and porous media layers. Initially, the solid phase is stationed in a circular cylinder containing two open gates. Implications of a buoyancy ratio ( N = −2: 2), Hartmann number ( Ha = 0: 100), rotational frequency [Formula: see text], Darcy parameter [Formula: see text], Rayleigh number [Formula: see text], nanoparticles parameter [Formula: see text], and amplitude of wavy porous layers [Formula: see text] on the lineaments of heat/mass transport have been carried out. The results revealed that the diffusion of the solid phase is permanently moving toward upward except at opposing flow mode [Formula: see text] toward downward. The lower Rayleigh number reduces the solid-phase diffusions. A reduction in a Darcy parameter lessens the nanofluid speed and solid-phase diffusions in the porous layers. A reduction in [Formula: see text] from [Formula: see text] to [Formula: see text] diminishes the maximum of streamlines [Formula: see text] by 13.19% at [Formula: see text], by 46.75% at [Formula: see text], and by 74.75% at [Formula: see text].