The innovation of this paper is to simulate two-phase nanofluid natural
convection inside the transformable enclosure to control the heat transfer
rate under different heat flux. Heat transfer of a two-phase CuO-water
nanofluid in an enclosure under different heat flux has many industrial
applications including energy storage systems, thermal control of electronic
devices and cooling of radioactive waste containers. The Lattice Boltzmann
Method based on the D2Q9 method has been utilized for modeling velocity and
temperature fields. Streamlines, isotherms and nanoparticle volume fraction,
have been investigated for control the heat transfer rate for several cases.
The purpose of this feasibility study is to achieve uniform temperature
profiles and Tmax < 50?C under different heat flux. Natural convection heat
transfer in the rectangular and parallelogram enclosures with positive and
negative angular adiabatic walls were simulated. The average wall
temperature under heat flux boundary condition has been studied to predict
optimal levels of effective factors to control the maximum wall temperature.
The results illustrated parallelogram enclosures with positive angle of case
1 and case 3 and 4 with rectangular enclosures were best cases for
considering physical conditions. Average of temperature for these cases were
37.9, 29.7 and 38.2, respectively.