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The present study deals with the finite element discretization of nanofluid convective transport in an enclosure with variable properties. We study the Buongiorno model, which couples the Navier–Stokes equations for the base fluid, an advective-diffusion equation for the heat transfer, and an advection-dominated nanoparticle fraction concentration subject to thermophoresis and Brownian motion forces. We develop an iterative numerical scheme that combines Newton’s method (dedicated to the resolution of the momentum and energy equations) with the transport equation that governs the nanoparticles concentration in the enclosure. We show that the Stream-Upwind Petrov–Galerkin regularization approach is required to solve properly the transport equation in Buongiorno’s model, in the Finite Element framework. Indeed, we formulate this ill-posed equation as a variational problem under mean value constraint. Numerical analysis and computations are reported to show the effectiveness of our proposed numerical approach in its ability to provide reasonably good agreement with the experimental results available in the literature.
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Appendices
Appendix 1: Density dimensionless derivation
note also from Eq. (2.4),
where \((\rho \beta )_\text {bf}=\rho _\text {bf}\beta _\text {bf}\) and \((\rho \beta )_\text {np}=\rho _\text {np}\beta _\text {np}\). Hence
Let
Appendix 2: Momentum equation
Moving toward dimensionless variables the above equation becomes
Multiplying the above equation by \(\dfrac{L^3}{\alpha ^2}\) we obtain
which rewrites using the non-dimensional constants as follows:
where
Appendix 3: Energy equation
The dimensional energy equation writes
Moving toward dimensionless variables the above equation writes
Multiplying the above equation by \(\dfrac{L^2}{\alpha (\theta ^{\star }_{H}-\theta ^{\star }_{C})}\) we obtain
which rewrites using non-dimensional variables as follows:
where
Appendix 4: Nanoparticle transport equation
The particle dimensional equation writes
using the non-dimensional equations the above equation writes
Multiplying the above by \(\dfrac{L^2}{\alpha \phi _\text {b}}\) we obtain
where
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Riahi, M.K., Ali, M., Addad, Y. et al. Combined Newton–Raphson and Streamlines-Upwind Petrov–Galerkin iterations for nanoparticles transport in buoyancy-driven flow. J Eng Math 132, 22 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-021-10205-4
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Keywords
- Advection-dominated equation
- Finite element method
- Nanofluid
- Nanofluid heat transfer
- Navier–Stokes equations
- Newton–Raphson method
- Stream-Upwind Petrov–Galerkin