Magnetic radiative buoyancy-driven convection of MWCNTs -C2H6O2 power-law nanofluids in inclined enclosures with wavy walls

Abstract

The current numerical investigation focuses on the power-law nanofluids behaviors in slant wavy enclosures in the presence of thermal radiation. The entropy of the system together with the flow and thermal features are examined for several patterns of the side wavy walls, namely, Out-Out, In-In and In-out. The components of the suspension are multi-wall carbon nanotubes and ethylene glycol. The magnetic field is considered in the current study to be inclined and its components are expressed in terms of the enclosure inclination angle. The solution scheme is based on the Characteristic-Based Split (CBS) scheme and the resulting system is discretized using the finite element method (FEM). It is noted that the flow structures, temperature, and entropy features have strong responses for changing the patterns of the side walls. Also, for the non-inclined domain, an augmentation in the non-Newtonian fluid flow up to 44.2% is given as the radiation coefficient is altered from 0 to 5.