Impacts of heater-cooler position and Lorentz force on heat transfer and entropy generation of hybrid nanofluid convection in quarter-circular cavity

NK Manna, N Biswas, DK Mandal, UK Sarkar… - International Journal of …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The study aims to assess the heater and cooler positional impacts systematically
using four different quadrantal cavities filled with hybrid nanofluid, kee** the curved …

Entropy generation vs energy efficiency for natural convection based energy flow in enclosures and various applications: a review

P Biswal, T Basak - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The entropy generation minimization (EGM) technique is an important tool for the
optimization of the thermal systems via the analysis of the associated irreversibilities …

Effect of discrete heating-cooling on magneto-thermal-hybrid nanofluidic convection in cylindrical system

D Chatterjee, N Biswas, NK Manna, S Sarkar - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In search of efficient energy utilization and superior thermal performance, the present study
is aimed at understanding the positional effect of discrete heaters and coolers on a …

Role of surface undulation during mixed bioconvective nanofluid flow in porous media in presence of oxytactic bacteria and magnetic fields

DK Mandal, N Biswas, NK Manna, RSR Gorla… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Transport phenomena involving thermo-bioconvection have become an interesting field of
research due to their novel application in various fields of engineering, bio-energy systems …

[SÁCH][B] Convection in porous media

DA Nield, A Bejan - 2006 - Springer
By a porous medium we mean a material consisting of a solid matrix with an interconnected
void. We suppose that the solid matrix is either rigid (the usual situation) or it undergoes …

Magneto-nanofluidic thermal transport and irreversibility in semicircular systems with heated wavy bottom under constant fluid volume and cooling surface constraints

N Biswas, D Chatterjee, S Sarkar… - International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to investigate the influence of wall curvature in a semicircular
thermal annular system on magneto-nanofluidic flow, heat transfer and entropy generation …

Numerical investigation of magnetohydrodynamic natural convection heat transfer and entropy generation in a rhombic enclosure filled with Cu-water nanofluid

S Dutta, N Goswami, AK Biswas, S Pati - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
The present work analyses magnetohydrodynamic natural convection heat transfer and
entropy generation in rhombic enclosures filled with Cu-water nanofluids. Numerical …

Constraint-based analysis of heat transport and irreversibility in magnetic nanofluidic thermal systems

NK Manna, A Saha, N Biswas, K Ghosh - International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to investigate the thermal performance of equivalent square and
circular thermal systems and compare the heat transport and irreversibility of …

Heatlines and other visualization techniques for confined heat transfer systems

PS Mahapatra, A Mukhopadhyay, NK Manna… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Efficient visualization techniques are required to understand the flow physics for any
numerical simulation. For convective heat transfer problems, most widely used techniques to …

Magnetic force vectors as a new visualization tool for magnetohydrodynamic convection

NK Manna, N Biswas - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
In the absence of a proper visualizing tool to present the local intensity of magnetic force
during magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) convection, the understanding of the local behavior of …