Heat transfer and entropy generation analysis in a horizontal channel filled with a permeable medium in the presence of aligned magnetic field and temperature gradient heat source

Abstract

The current investigation is concerned with heat transfer and entropy generation analysis in a horizontal channel brimming with porous medium in the existence of aligned magnetic field, viscous and joules dissipation and temperature gradient heat source. The boundary conditions are treated as constant values for velocity and temperature at lower and upper walls. An explicit solution of governing equations has been attained in closed system. The repercussions of pertinent parameters on the fluid velocity, temperature, entropy generation and Bejan number are conferred and scrutinized through graphs in detail. Additionally the expressions for shear stress and the rate of heat transfer coefficients at the channel walls are derived and results obtained are physically interpreted through tables. From the conquered results, it is addressed that Brinkman number Br enhances boundary layer thickness. Entropy generation increases with intensifying values of M, aligned angle ϕ, temperature gradient heat source parameter Q, characteristic temperature ration omega and permeability parameter K. The shear stress is same at both the lower and upper walls.