Effects of radiative heat flux and heat generation on magnetohydodynamics natural convection flow of nanofluid inside a porous triangular cavity with thermal boundary conditions

When the nanoparticles are incorporated into the base fluid, the resultant fluid is known as nanofluid. Nanofluids have higher thermal efficiency as compared to base fluid. Some fluids have poor thermal conductivity like, water, air and ethylene glycol and oil. Thus, the thermal efficiency of the work can be increased by inserting the nanoparticles into base fluid. Furthermore, the nanoparticles can be used to enhanced the cooling rate of the system due to higher thermal conductivity. In this investigation, the magnetohydodynamics convective flow phenomenon under the consideration of different nanofluids inside a triangular porous conduit will investigated. For the better understanding of heat transfer characteristics, the thermal radiation and heat generation (or absorption) will also incorporated. We will impose constant and variable temperature on the left inclined wall to analyze the heat transfer mechanism. Furthermore, the heat transfer rate will also be analyzed by considering different nanoparticles. The robust numerical scheme namely the finite element method has been selected to simulate the nonlinear complex flow equations based on iterative scheme. In this technique, at the first stage the penalty method is employed for the purpose of the elimination of pressure from the equations of motion. After that the developed the system in the absence of pressure term is solved. To simulate the problem the value of penalty parameter is chosen 10(-7). The contours of stream function and temperature distribution are displayed for several values of physical parameters. Furthermore, the variations of important quantity known as an average heat transfer rate are displayed through bar charts. For constant heating case the aluminum nano particles are the best choice to enhance the heat transfer rate in the system. Moreover, the magnitude of the stream function rises against the radiation and Rayleigh number. Furthermore, the conduction mode of heat transfer is achieved via thermal radiation parameter. The applications of the given study can be found in various industrial processes like, cooling of electronic devices, cooling of house and commercial buildings, cooling of microelectronics, cancer therapy, vehicle thermal management, and heat exchangers.