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Article history: In this computational work, we focus on spherical barrier effects on the thermal behaviour of Ar/Cu nanofluid
Received 8 July 2020 with molecular dynamics simulation. LAMMPS software is implemented in our study with Universal Force
Received in revised form 26 August 2020 Field and Embedded Atom Model force field for various atomic structures in the simulation box. The thermal be-
Accepted 28 August 2020
haviour study of Ar/Cu nanofluid is done with physical parameters calculations such as atomic temperature, total
Available online 31 August 2020
energy, number of nanofluid atoms at gas phase, radial distribution function, and thermal conductivity of Ar/Cu
Keywords:
nanofluid. By atomic barrier adding to our simulated plates, the atomic phase transition occurs in fewer time
Molecular dynamics simulation steps. Numerically, phase transition in the simulated nanofluid occurs in 610,000-time steps by Pt spherical bar-
Spherical barrier riers simulation (with 15 Å radius). By increasing the atomic barrier size, the number of nanofluid atoms in which
Nanofluid phase transition occur in them is increased. From these simulations results, we conclude that, heat flux in Ar/Cu
Argon nanofluid increases but thermal conductivity of the foremost constant. Numerically, the thermal conductivity of
Copper Ar/Cu nanofluid reaches to 0.016 W/m.K by atomic barrier radius increasing to 15 Å.
Phase transition © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Thermal conductivity
Thermal behaviour
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where mi is the atomic mass, ri is the atom position, and finally, vi is the
atom velocity. Further, Gaussian formalism used to particles tempera-
this research group conclude that the thermal conductivity of the stud- ture definition, which can be calculated by below equation [30]:
ied oil increased significantly. Ahammed et al. [22] reported the thermal
conductivity of the H2O base fluid at various temperatures. They 3 1 N 1
kB T ¼ ∑ mv2i ð2Þ
showed that the thermal conductivity of nanofluid improves with in- 2 Natom i¼1 2
creasing the optimized atomic rate of graphene nanoparticles. Numeri-
cally, the thermal behaviour of base fluid improves to 37.2% for 0.15% Computationally, these computational equations calculated by the
concentration of graphene nanosheets when compared with H2O velocity-Verlet algorithm as [30]:
base-fluid. Selvam et al. [23] prepared the promising nanofluid with
1
ethylene glycol and H2O as based-fluid. They said that the thermal con- r ðt þ Δt Þ ¼ r ðt Þ þ vðt Þ Δt þ aðt Þ Δt 2 ð3Þ
2
ductivity of nanofluids enhances with inserting nanoparticles to base-
fluid significantly. Ding et al. [24] researched about the thermal manner 1
of H2O/CNT nanofluid with an experimental approach. This research vðt þ Δt Þ ¼ vðt Þ þ ½aðt Þ þ aðt þ Δt Þ Δt ð4Þ
2
group reported the optimization of the thermal behaviour approxi-
mately reach to 350% by adding CNT nanoparticles with a 0.5% atomic In Eqs. (3) and (4), the r(t + Δt), v(t + Δt), and a(t + Δt) are final
ratio. position, velocity, and acceleration of particles. Further, r(t), v(t),
Akhavan et al. [25] showed the transport coefficients of H2O base- and a(t) are the initial rate of these parameters. In the initial step
fluid increases by graphene nanoparticle, adding to base-fluid. They of our MD simulations, we use periodic boundary conditions in y
conclude the thermal conductivity of H2 O molecules can be opti- and x directions and fix one implemented in the z-direction which
mized by adding nanostructures to them. Witharana et al. and these conditions commonly used in the MD approach [30]. The MD
Chen et al. [26,27] expressed that the science of the atomic manner simulation box length set to 100 Å, 100 Å, and 130 Å in x, y, and z di-
and effect of nanofluids is a significant physical factor in planning rections. Further, the 1 fs rate chooses for the simulation time steps
their thermal behaviour for the heat transfer process. In various ex- in all MD simulation steps. Theoretically, to get correct calculations
perimental studies, nanoparticles adding to common base-fluids in MD based simulations, one should choose the atomic force-field
cause phase transition to occur in base-fluid in shorter times. So we based on the physical phenomena which studied. The force-field
can conclude by inserting nanostructures to common base-fluids, for nanofluid and metal structures (Pt non-ideal plates and Cu nano-
the heat transfer rate in these structures improved. Today, theoreti- particle) in our simulations was based on a universal force field
cal methods like Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation method can (UFF), and Embedded Atom Model (EAM) potentials, respectively
be used to the atomic study of various substances [28–30]. This com- [44,45]. In the UFF force field, the interaction between particles was
putational approach is used in this study of nanostructures thermal, stated by the Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential as [45]:
membranes and mechanical behaviours [31–41]. Li et al. in their sim- " 6 #
ulation work which similar our research, studied the phase transi- σ 12 σ
U ðr Þ ¼ 4ε − r ≪ rc ð5Þ
tion process of argon fluid in confined non-ideal Pt plates [42]. The r ij r ij
simulation outcomes were that the molecular dynamics simulation
approach accuracy on phase transition phenomena prediction in In Eq. (5), rij is the distance between j and j atoms, rc is the cutoff ra-
base-fluid, such as argon atoms. Further, Hekmatifar et al. studied dius, and σ and ε parameters are the energy and length scales—these
the cone barriers effect on nanofluid phase transition phenomena. computational constants selected from force-field references. Further,
The results of this computational work showed the significant im- in our MD simulations, metal structures simulated by EAM potential.
pact of atomic barriers in the thermal manner of Ar/Cu nanofluid EAM potential represented by the below equation [46]:
and the nanofluid phase transition phenomena [43]. In this work, !
we simulate Ar base-fluid thermal manner in a confined space 1
Ei ¼ F α ∑ρβ r ij þ ∑ϕαβ r ij ð6Þ
which made of Pt plates by adding Cu nanoparticles. Pt plate in the i≠j 2 i≠j
upper region of our simulation box has a non-ideal surface with 9
spherical barriers in which the atomic size of these spherical struc- where rij is the distance between j and i atoms, ϕαβ is a pair-wise poten-
tures affected to nanofluid thermal manner. For the study of thermal tial function, ραβ is the contribution to the electron charge density from
A. Mosavi et al. / Journal of Molecular Liquids 319 (2020) 114183 3
atom j of type β at the location of atom i, and Fα is an embedding func- Fig. 1 [51]. In this structure, the temperature of heat source and heat sink
tion that represents the energy required to place atom i of type α into defined with below equations:
the electron cloud. After the force-field definition for various atomic
structures, atom's time evolution described by Newton's law. For this, T HeatSource ¼ 107:5−Δt ð7Þ
we use the Large Scale Molecular/Atomic Massively Simulator
(LAMMPS) package. This simulation package released by Sandia Na-
T HeatSink ¼ T 4 ¼ 107:5 þ Δt ð8Þ
tional Laboratories in 1995 for the first time [47–50]. To use this stimu-
lation package to describe Ar/Cu nanofluid thermal behaviour and
phase transition phenomena, Pt non-ideal plates and H2O/Cu nanofluid In these two equations, the Δt is 22.50 K. Simulation box in perspec-
structures simulated as depicted in Fig. 1. This schematic of the atomic tive view. These temperature setting in the simulated structure imple-
system visualized by the Open Visualization Tool (OVITO) is shown in mented by Nose-Hoover thermostat [30].
Fig. 2. Temperature variation of Ar/Cu nanofluid and non-ideal Pt plates as a function of simulation time steps.
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Fig. 3. Total energy difference of Ar/Cu nanofluid and non-ideal Pt plates as a function of MD simulation time.
A. Mosavi et al. / Journal of Molecular Liquids 319 (2020) 114183 5
Fig. 5. Temperature variation of Ar/Cu nanofluid as a function of spherical barrier radius and simulation time steps.
after 1,000,000-time steps. By increasing of spherical barriers radius 3.3. Number of nanofluid atoms in gas atomic phase
from 5 Å to 10 Å in non-ideal Pt plate, the average temperature of
nanofluid reach to 126 K. Further, the phase transition in simulated The number of nanofluid atoms in various atomic phase is an impor-
nanofluid detectable after 425,000-time steps. Time evolution of Ar/Cu tant parameter for heat transfer applications. We report the number of
nanofluid temperature and phase transition time of nanofluid atomic Ar/Cu nanofluid atoms in the gas phase after the phase transition pro-
structure reported in Table 1 as a function of barrier radius. cess in our MD simulations. Our results show that the number of
nanofluid atoms in the gas phase increases to 3136 from 2562 after
1,000,000-time steps. By radius of spherical barrier enlarging from 5 Å
to 10 Å, the number of nanofluid atoms in the gas phase reaches to
3214. Previous computational work shows a similar atomic manner
[42]. Li et al. show that atomic barriers have a direct effect on the num-
ber of atoms in the phase transition process, and by adding this atomic
Table 1 parameter to simulated structures, phase transition phenomena occur
Average temperature and phase transition time in Ar/Cu nanofluid as a function of spher- effectively. Physically, this atomic improvement arises from increasing
ical barrier radius and simulation time steps.
of atomic contact between plates and nanofluid particles which cause
Barrier radius The temperature in final time step Phase transition time the heat flux increasing in the simulated structures. By heat flux increas-
(Å) (K) (ns) ing between the plate and nanofluid particles, the acceleration of
5 113 771,000 nanofluid particles rises, and displacement of these particles get harder.
7.5 120 510,000 By this mechanical parameter changes, the atomic distance between
10 126 425,000
nanofluid particles increases and the gas phase in this structure
Fig. 6. Number of gas atoms in Ar/Cu nanofluid as a function of the molecule dynamics simulation time step and Pt barriers radius.
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4. Conclusion
Fig. 8. The Ar atoms arrangement in the simulation box as a function of the molecular
dynamics simulation time step: a) T = 0, b) T = 500,000, and c) T = 1,000,000 time steps.
8 A. Mosavi et al. / Journal of Molecular Liquids 319 (2020) 114183
Fig. 9. Thermal conductivity variation of Ar/Cu nanofluid as a function of the simulation time step and atomic barrier height (equilibrium MD simulations).
Fig. 10. Thermal conductivity variation of Ar/Cu nanofluid as a function of the simulation time step and atomic barrier height (non-equilibrium MD simulations).
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