Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7156903 | Computers & Fluids | 2015 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Natural convection flow in a porous concentric horizontal annulus saturated with a water based nanofluid is numerically investigated. The mathematical model used is of single-phase and is formulated in dimensionless stream function and temperature taking into account the Darcy-Boussinesq approximation and the nanofluid model proposed by Buongiorno. The transformed dimensionless partial differential equations have been solved using a second-order accurate finite-difference technique. The results indicate that inclusion of nanoparticles into pure water changes the flow structure at low values of the Rayleigh number.
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Authors
Mikhail A. Sheremet, Ioan Pop,