Abstract
Mixed convection of heat transfer in 2D-square
enclosure with an inner two rotating solid circular cylinder had been investigated
numerically, the domain between the enclosure walls and cylinders is filled
with (Cu-Water) nano fluid. For numerical computational, the dimensionless
governing equations were modeled and formulated based on the Galerkin Finite
Element Methods. All walls of the enclosure were insulated while the right
cylinder was kept at constant hot temperature and the other left cylinder was
kept at constant cold temperature. The current study examines the effect of the
cylinders angular rotational speed between (0 and -10000), cylinders diameter
(0.2, 0.3, and 0.4), Richardson number (0.1 and 10), and the volume fraction of
the nano particle (0 to 0.6). The results have been shown in term of isotherm
lines, stream function, average Nusselt number, and offered graphically. The
results showed that the temperature gradient , intensity of flow and average
Nusselt number increases with increase of angular rotational speed, the
diameter, and the volume fraction of the nanoparticle whereas it decreases with
an increase in Richardson number. The enhancement of the average Nusselt number
increase with increase of rotating speed, concentration of nanoparticle and
cylinder diameter with ratio of (75.17%), (3.37%) and (73.25%) respectively.
While the average Nusselt number decreased with increase in Richardson number
with ratio of (13.37%).