Second law analysis on Hall effect of natural convection flow through vertical channel in the presence of uniform heat source/sink

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 4403-4423
Author(s):  
A. Roja ◽  
B.J. Gireesha

Purpose Microfluidics is one of the extensive elaborated technologies in thermal and engineering fields due to its wide range of applications, such as micro heat exchangers, micro mixture and microchannel heat sinks, which is used to develop a large number of microscopic devices and systems. Enhancement of thermal energy using verity of nanoliquids is one of the challenges in these applications of microfluidics. Therefore, using single wall carbon nanotubes for enhancement of thermal energy in microchannel is the main purpose of this study. Hall effect of natural convection flow in a vertical channel with slip and temperature jump condition is considered. The impacts of radiative heat flux, uniform heat source/sink, viscous dissipation and joule heating are also taken into account. Design/methodology/approach Suitable non-dimension variables are applied to the governing equations to reduce the system into ordinary differential equations. The reduced nonlinear system is then solved numerically using Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg fourth–fifth-order method along with shooting technique. The impact of different pertinent parameters on numerical solutions of primary velocity, secondary velocity, temperature, entropy generation and Bejan number is comprehensively discussed in detail. Also, the obtained numerical results are compared with existing one which perfectly found to be in good agreement. Findings It is established that, with the aspects of Joule heating, viscous dissipation, radiative heat flux and uniform heat source/sink, the production in the entropy can be improved. Further, it is found that the increasing ratio of wall ambient temperature difference and nanoparticle volume fraction leads to enhance the entropy generation. The same effect reverses with increasing values of fluid wall interaction parameter (FWIP) and rare faction. The irreversibility ratio enhances with larger values of nanoparticle volume fraction and decelerates with increment values of FWIP. Originality/value The impact of single wall carbon nanoliquid in a vertical channel flow by using radiative heat flux, heat source/sink, joule heating and viscous dissipation is first time investigated. Further, the influence of Hall current is explored in detail.

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1475-1496
Author(s):  
A. Roja ◽  
B.J. Gireesha ◽  
B.C. Prasannakumara

PurposeMiniaturization with high thermal performance and lower cost is one of the advanced developments in industrial science chemical and engineering fields including microheat exchangers, micro mixers, micropumps, cooling microelectro mechanical devices, etc. In addition to this, the minimization of the entropy is the utilization of the energy of thermal devices. Based on this, in the present investigation, micropolar nanofluid flow through an inclined channel under the impacts of viscous dissipation and mixed convection with velocity slip and temperature jump has been numerically studied. Also the influence of magnetism and radiative heat flux is used.Design/methodology/approachThe nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations are obtained by applying suitable dimensionless variables to the governing equations, and then the Runge–Kutta–Felhberg integration scheme is used to find the solution of velocity and temperature. Entropy generation and Bejan number are calculated via using these solutions.FindingsIt is established to notice that the entropy generation can be improved with the aspects of viscous dissipation, magnetism and radiative heat flux. The roles of angle of inclination (α), Eckert number (Ec), Reynolds number (Re), thermal radiation (Rd), material parameter (K),  slip parameter (δ), microinertial parameter (aj), magnetic parameter (M), Grashof number (Gr) and pressure gradient parameter (A) are demonstrated. It is found that the angle of inclination and Grashof number enhances the entropy production while it is diminished with material parameter and magnetic parameter.Originality/valueElectrically conducting micropolar nanofluid flow through an inclined channel subjected to the friction irreversibility with temperature jump and velocity slip under the influence of radiative heat flux has been numerically investigated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1435-1455 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. Gireesha ◽  
A. Roja

PurposeMicrofluidics is one of the interesting areas of the research in thermal and engineering fields due to its wide range of applications in a variety of heat transport problems such as micromixers, micropumps, cooling systems for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) micro heat exchangers, etc. Lower cost with better thermal performance is the main objective of these devices. Therefore, in this study, the entropy generation in an electrically conducting Casson fluid flow through an inclined microchannel with hydraulic slip and the convective condition hves been numerically investigated. Aspects of viscous dissipation, natural convection, joule heating, magnetic field and uniform heat source/sink are usedDesign/methodology/approachSuitable non-dimensional variables are used to reduce the non-linear system of ordinary differential equations, and then this system is solved numerically using Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg fourth fifth order method along with shooting technique. The obtained numerical solutions of the fluid velocity and temperature are used to characterize the entropy generation and Bejan number. Also, the Nusselt number and skin friction coefficient for various values of parameters are examined in detail through graphs. The obtained present results are compared with the existing one which is perfectly found to be in good agreement.FindingsIt is established that the production of the entropy can be improved with the aspects of joule heating, viscous dissipation and internal heat source/sink. The entropy generation enhances for increasing values of Casson Parameter (β) and Biot number (Bi). Furthermore, it is interestingly noticed that the enhancement of Reynolds number and uniform heat source/sink shows the dual behaviour of the entropy generation due to significant influence of the viscous forces in the region close to the channel walls. It was observed that increasing behaviour of the heat transfer rate for enhancement values of the Eckert number and heat source/sink ratio parameter and the drag force are retarded with higher estimations of Reynolds number.Originality/valueEntropy generation analysis on MHD Casson fluid flow through an inclined microchannel with the aspects of convective, Joule heating, viscous dissipation, magnetism, hydraulic slip and internal heat source/sink has been numerically investigated.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 182-190
Author(s):  
Gauri Shenkar Seth ◽  
Rohit Sharma ◽  
B. Kumbhakar ◽  
R. Tripathi

An investigation is carried out for the steady, two dimensional stagnation point flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting, optically thick heat radiating fluid taking viscous dissipation into account over an exponentially stretching non-isothermal sheet with exponentially moving free-stream in the presence of uniform transverse magnetic field and non-uniform heat source/sink. The governing boundary layer equations are transformed into highly nonlinear ordinary differential equations using suitable similarity transform. Resulting boundary value problem is solved numerically with the help of 4th-order Runge-Kutta Gill method along with shooting technique. Effects of various pertinent flow parameters on the velocity, temperature field, skin friction and Nusselt number are described through figures and tables. Also, the present numerical results are compared with the earlier published results for some reduced case and a good agreement has been found among those results.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 452-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayarami Reddy Konda ◽  
Madhusudhana Reddy N.P. ◽  
Ramakrishna Konijeti ◽  
Abhishek Dasore

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of magnetic field on Williamson nanofluid embedded in a porous medium in the presence of non-uniform heat source/sink, chemical reaction and thermal radiation effects.Design/methodology/approachThe governing physical problem is presented using the traditional Navier–Stokes theory. Consequential system of equations is transformed into a set of non-linear ordinary differential equations by means of scaling group of transformation, which are solved using the Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method.FindingsThe working fluid is examined for several sundry parameters graphically and in a tabular form. It is noticed that with an increase in Eckert number, there is an increase in velocity and temperature along with a decrease in shear stress and heat transfer rate.Originality/valueA good agreement of the present results has been observed by comparing with the existing literature results.


2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramachandra Prasad ◽  
Subba Rao ◽  
Anwar Bég

In the present paper we examine the effects of viscous dissipation, Joule heating and heat source/sink on non-Darcy MHD natural convection heat transfer flow over permeable horizontal circular cylinder in a porous medium. The boundary layer equations, which are parabolic in nature, are normalized into non-similar form and then solved numerically with the well-tested, efficient, implicit, stable Keller-box finite difference scheme. A parametric study illustrating the influence of Darcy parameter (Da), Forchheimer parameter (?), Grashof number(Gr), heat source/sink parameter (?) and viscous dissipation parameter (Ec) on the fluid velocity, temperature as well as local skin-friction and Nusselt numbers is conducted Increasing Forchheimer inertial drag parameter (?) retards the flow considerably but enhances temperatures. Increasing viscous dissipation parameter(Ec) is found to elevate velocities i.e. accelerate the flow and increase temperatures. Increasing heat source/sink parameter (?) is found to elevate velocities and increase temperatures. Increasing the Grashof number (Gr) is found to elevate the velocity and decrease the temperatures. Local skin friction number is found to be increases with increasing heat source/sink parameter (?) where as Local Nusselt number is found to decrease with increasing heat source/sink parameter (?).


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document