Abstract
The current numerical investigation deals with natural convection in a nanofluid-saturated porous cylindrical annulus subjected to partial heating and cooling of side walls by adopting Brinkman-extended Darcy Model to govern the fluid flow in porous media. By choosing five different locations and four lengths of thermal source–sink pairs, the impact of discrete heating–cooling on fluid flow, thermal transport rates and thermal mixing in a porous annular enclosure has been addressed. From the vast range of numerical simulations, the results provide information on the proper size and location of source–sink combinations to dissipate maximum thermal transport along with better thermal mixing in the enclosure. The importance of porosity, nanoparticle concentration, Darcy and Rayleigh numbers on overall thermal dissipation rate has also been discussed. The results showed that identifying an optimum source–sink location along with an appropriate choice of other control parameters can lead to higher thermal transport enhancement and thermal mixing.
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