Scientia Iranica

Scientia Iranica

Mixed convection in a lid-driven cavity with sinusoidal boundary temperature at the bottom wall in the presence of magnetic field

Authors
S. Sivasankaran 1
S.S. Ananthan 2
A.K. Abdul Hakeem 3
1 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.
2 Department of Mathematics, Erode Sengunthar Engineering College, Thudupathi, 638 057, Tamil Nadu, India.
3 Department of Mathematics, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidhyalaya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore 641020, India.
10.24200/sci.2016.3871
Abstract
Mixed convection heat transfer in a lid-driven square cavity with sinusoidal boundary temperature at the bottom wall in the presence of magnetic eld is investigated, numerically. The top wall is preserved at a lower temperature. The left and right sidewalls of the cavity are thermally insulated. Finite volume method is used to solve the mass, momentum, and energy equations. The heat transfer rate is examined by varying the dimensionless parameters of Richardson number and Hartmann number. The fluid flow and the heat transfer rate are strongly a ected inside the cavity by the presence of magnetic field.
Keywords
mixed convection
Magnetic field
Non-uniform heating
Lid-driven cavity
Scientia Iranica
Volume 23, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Transactions on Mechanical Engineering (B)
June 2016
Pages 1027-1036

  • Receive Date 22 June 2016
  • Accept Date 27 July 2017