Journal of Modeling in Engineering

Vol.9, No.25, Summer 2011

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF NATURAL CONVECTION AROUND A

CIRCULAR CYLINDER PLACED IN A CAVITY FILLED WITH
NANOFLUID BY CHANGING THE LOCATION AND RADIUS
A. Fereidun1, A.A. Abbasian Arani2, M. Hemmat Esfe2,* and A. Zare Ghadi3
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran
3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jouybar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jouybar, Iran

*Corresponding Author: m.hemmatesfe@gmail.com

ARTICLE INFO
Keywords:
Square Cavity,
Nanofluid,
Heated Circular
Body,
Natural Convection.

ABSTRACT
In this article, a numerical study was conducted to examine the
effect of location and diameter of the inner cylinder on laminar
natural convection flow fields and temperature distribution
around a circular body inserted square cavity. In order to study
different situations, the radius of obstacle varied from 0.2 to 0.3
length of square, the Rayleigh number between 103 to 107 and
solid contraction of nanofluid with diameter of 40 nanometers
changed from 0 to 8%. The above parameters can be used as a
control parameter for heat transfer, fluid flow and temperature
distributions. The results show that in situations where the heated
circular body is close to the lower wall of the cavity, the change
of temperature field and streamlines is more noticeable than any
other position. On the other hand, Nusselt number and
consequently heat transfer increases with increasing of solid
volume fraction of nanoparticles. Also when the radius of the
body decrease from 0.3L to 0.15L, the Nusselt number increase
by 79.15 percent.