Browsing by Author "Hassen W."

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    Control of Magnetohydrodynamic Mixed Convection and Entropy Generation in a Porous Cavity by Using Double Rotating Cylinders and Curved Partition
    (American Chemical Society, 2021) Hassen W.; Selimefendigil F.; Ben Khedher N.; Kolsi L.; Borjini M.N.; Alresheedi F.
    In this work, mixed convection and entropy generation analyses in a partitioned porous cavity with double inner rotating cylinders are explored under magnetic field effects. A curved partition shape is considered with identical rotating cylinders and an inclined magnetic field, while the right vertical wall moves with a constant speed in the y-direction. Numerical simulations are performed by considering various values of Rayleigh number, Hartman number, Darcy number, inclination of the magnetic field, size of the curved partitions, and rotational speeds of the inner cylinders and their vertical locations with the cavity. Complicated flow field with multicellular structures are observed due to the complex interaction between the natural convection, moving wall, and rotational effects of inner cylinders. Improved heat-transfer performance is obtained with higher values of magnetic field inclination, higher values of permeability/porosity of the medium, and higher rotational speeds of the cylinders. Almost doubling of the average Nu number is obtained by decreasing the value of the Hartmann number from 25 to 0 or varying the magnetic field inclination from 90 to 0. When rotational effects of the cylinders are considered, average heat-transfer improvements by a factor of 5 and 5.9 are obtained for nondimensional rotational speeds of 5 and −5 in comparison with the case of motionless cylinders. An optimum length of the porous layer is achieved for which the best heat-transfer performance is achieved. As the curvature size of the partition is increased, better heat transfer of the hot wall is obtained and up to 138% enhancement is achieved. Significant increments of entropy generation are observed for left and right domains including the rotating cylinders. The magnetic field parameter also affects the entropy generation and contributions of different domains including the curved porous partition. © 2021 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.
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    Impacts of double rotating cylinders on the forced convection of hybrid nanofluid in a bifurcating channel with partly porous layers
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2021) Kolsi L.; Selimefendigil F.; Öztop H.F.; Hassen W.; Aich W.
    Impacts of using double rotating cylinders and partly porous layers in the bifurcating channels on the hydro-thermal performance were numerically assessed. Hybrid nanoparticles were used in water and finite element method was selected as the solver. Effects of Reynolds number, rotational speeds of the cylinders and their locations in the bifurcating channels, porous layer sizes and nanoparticle solid volume fractions on the hydro-thermal performance features were explored. The contribution of different hot wall parts was changed with varying Reynolds number and rotational velocity of the cylinders. Depending upon the rotational direction of the cylinders, the vortex occurrence and size at the bifurcations change significantly. Heat transfer considering all hot walls rise with higher rotational speeds in both directions. The amount of improvement in the heat transfer rate becomes 25% and 19% with varying speeds of the cylinders as compared to motionless cylinders. The pressure coefficient reduces with increasing the second cylinder speed in clockwise direction and this is favorable for thermal performance since the heat transfer also increases. The overall impact of the varying horizontal locations of the cylinders on the heat transfer rate is slight. The separated zones at the branching depends on the porous layer sizes. The overall heat transfer behavior becomes opposite when varying the sizes of the porous layers in the horizontal and vertical channels. By using nanoparticles in the base fluid, 35.75% improvement in the heat transfer rate is achieved for vertical wall at Re = 350 while pressure drop coefficient rises by about 8.5%. The overall improvement in the heat transfer rate by using nanofluid is 26%. Owing to diverse use of bifurcating channels in thermal engineering from fuel cells to electronic cooling, the proposed methods of heat transfer enhancement techniques can be considered simultaneously for effective control the thermal performance of those systems. © 2021 The Author(s).