Numerical investigation of combined buoyancy-thermocapillary convection and entropy generation in 3D cavity filled with Al2O3 nanofluid

Heat transfer, fluid flow and entropy generation due to combined buoyancy and thermocapillary forces in a 3D differentially heated enclosure containing Al2O3 nanofluid are carried out for different Marangoni numbers and different nanoparticles concentrations. The vector potential-vorticity formalism...

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Main Authors: Lioua Kolsi, Emtinene Lajnef, Walid Aich, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Mohamed Ahmed Aichouni, Mohamed Naceur Borjini, Habib Ben Aissia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-03-01
Series:Alexandria Engineering Journal
Subjects:
3D
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S111001681630271X