1. Introduction
Nanofluids are very eminent in many energy systems and play a crucial role in the heat transfer mechanism. Usual base fluids like alcohol, graphene, engine oil, and water possess a low competency to improve the heat transport rate. Therefore, the amalgamation of base fluid in the tiny sized solid constituents would improve the heat transfer rate [
1]. Ultimately, Choi [
2] suggested that the tendency of conducting fluids to enhance the thermal properties could be enhanced by mixing the solid fragments (nanoparticles) into base fluids. The diffusion of small nanoparticles sized (1–100 nm) in the base liquids refers to nanofluids. The elements of nanoparticles comprise oxides, carbides, nitrides, and metals such as
,
,
,
,
,
, and
. With improved and enhanced thermal mechanisms, nanofluids have enormous employments involving thermal storage capacity, nuclear system cooling, vehicle engine cooling, welding cooling, high power lasers, and are used in supersonic and ultrasonic fields, gas recovery of boiler exhaust fuel, tumor and cancer therapy, pharmacology, refrigerator, drag reduction, grinder machines, hybrid power engines, fuel cells, car AC, microelectronic chips, and microwave tubes [
3]. Various recent investigations regarding nanofluids subject to various conditions have been studied in [
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10].
Flows involving magnetohydrodynamic effects have potential uses in fiber coating, plasma confinement, magnetic material processing industries, photochemical reactors, purification of crude oil, magnetic drug targeting, nuclear fusion, and many other fields. Investigations concerning MHD flows have been carried out by many researchers. Yang et al. [
11] used the theoretical and experimental results in order to measure the nanowire motion in the presence of a magnetic field. They utilized the MRF (multiple reference frame) model to find the torque of fluid, which was then equated with the theoretical and experimental results. The impact of magnetic nanofluids (MNFs) on the heat transfer enhancement was determined by Zhang and Zhang [
12]. Their outcomes depicted that non-magnetic and unidirectional fields inserted a low effect on the coefficient of local heat transfer compared to an alternating magnetic field. Ali et al. [
13] studied the flow of aluminum oxide and copper under the action of the Lorentz force. The simulation results were correlated with the experimental ones and were found to be in a good connection with each other. Tetuko et al. [
14] examined the heat transmission rate of magnetic nanofluids in a pipe by using different Reynolds numbers, e.g., Re = 285, Re = 228, and Re = 171. The Williamson’s nanofluid under the aligned magnetic field effect was explored numerically by Srinivasulu and Goud [
15]. In this problem, the transformation of similarity was adopted to dimensionless the governing equations. An analysis of Casson nanofluid involving magnetohydrodynamic effects verified that the activation energy caused an enhancement in concentration, whereas the radiation effect boosted up the temperature and entropy generation as well (see Shah et al. [
16]). The heat transportation flow of micropolar fluid inside a permeable channel, under the magnetohydrodynamic effect, was investigated by Ahmad et al. [
17]. The effect of imposed magnetic field not only enhanced the Nusselt number and skin friction, but also caused a rapid increase in the rotation of micro particles. The implicit finite difference based numerical technique, known as Keller–Box, was utilized by Haq et al. [
18] to numerically solve the dynamical model of MHD Eyring Powell nanofluid flow. Both the heat transfer rate and surface drag were increased by the curvature parameter and the Eyring Powell fluid parameter.
Nanofluid flows through cavities with heat transfer characteristics under the magnetohydrodynamic effects have been extensively studied by numerous researchers because of their practical implementations in several areas of science and technology. MHD nanoparticles flow inside a lid driven cavity, under the impact convective conditions on boundary, was discussed numerically by Muthtamilselvan and Doh [
19]. The walls of the cavity were located at different positions. Moreover, the bottom and horizontal cavity walls possessed different temperatures, while the right and left cavity walls were considered to be insulated. Giwa et al. [
20] expressed the importance of magnetohydrodynamic phenomena in cavities filled with nanofluids. They proposed that the natural convection flows of nanofluids together with heat transfer in cavities could maintain and control the thermal efficiency of fluid using magnetic field sources, porous media, and aspect ratio. A simulation analysis was performed by Selimefendigil and Öztop [
21] to interpret the CNT–water nanofluid flow within a corrugated square cavity under an inclined magnetic field environment. The two cavity walls were assumed to be adiabatic and the other two were kept at same temperatures. They adopted the residual Galerkin weighted technique to find the numerical solution. Geridonmez and Oztop [
22] offered a novel numerical study regarding the flow of aluminum oxide nanoparticles inside a cavity subject to natural convection and cross partial magnetic fields. The radial basis functions (Rbfs) were introduced to solve the governing vorticity and stream function equations.
The cavity flows have considerable effects on the heat transportation and thermal performance of many systems, and play an essential role in cooling and heating energy systems. Examples incorporate solar collectors, nuclear reactors, energy storage geothermal reservoirs, underground water flow, and boilers. Flows of different fluids within a cavity have been analyzed by several researchers. The flow of ferrofluid (Fe
3O
4) together with H
2O in a cavity, under the entropy generation effect, was carried out by Mohammadpourfard et al. [
23]. In this numerical analysis, the control volume method was utilized to solve the two-phase mixture model. The effects produced by the buoyancy force and non-uniform magnetic field on the heat transfer flow in the cavity were investigated. Revnic et al. [
24] considered the flow inside a cavity filled with aluminum oxide and copper nanoparticles. A high temperature was taken on the two walls of the cavity while the other two were thermally insulated. Heat transfer enhancement was noted in the cavity for hybrid nanoparticles. The flow within a square enclosure was taken by Yasmin et al. [
25] to analyze the heat transport and flow features of MHD Cassonna nanofluids. Further investigations on cavity flows can be found in [
26,
27,
28].
The aforementioned literature review evidently discloses that the effects of moving diploe on the nanofluid flow occurring in a cavity have not been numerically interpreted yet. The recent work describes the novel aspects of the problem under the magnetohydrodynamic effects. The single-phase model (SPM) has been adopted to simplify the nanofluid flow model. The tabular and graphical outcomes express the dominant effects of the preeminent parameters on the heat transfer and flow in the cavity filled with nanofluids. New vortices seem to be appearing in the flow field with the existence of a dipole in the vicinity of cavity.
2. Materials and Methods
Figure 1 depicts a schematic geometry of the problem under consideration. A square with side L acts as the computational domain. Because of the mechanical arrangement, the top lid moves in the right side. Temperatures
and
show upper and lower wall temperatures, respectively, which are kept constant, and a magnetic source is placed at
. The water is considered to be the base fluid, while the solid particles of aluminum oxides Al
2O
3 are considered nanoparticles, which have been used in the nanofluid.
To examine the thermodynamic properties and flow characteristics of an incompressible and laminar nanofluid flow under the dipole influence, we formulated the governing equations using SPM, as follows:
Here:
and stands for the magnetic force components along x and y-axis, respectively.
expresses the magneto-caloric phenomenon subject to the thermal power per unit volume.
Where is the magnetic field intensity attributed to the existence of a dipole at .
, with
being the strength of the magnetic field at the dipole location [
29].
It is worth noting that the physical characteristics of the nanofluid are denoted by the subscript (nf).
After removing the pressure term, we get the following:
We use the dimensionless variables listed below:
Now, Equations (4) and (6) imply that:
The dimensionless parameters are portrayed in
Table 1.The above equations signify stream function–vorticity form, which is the modified version of the Equations (1)–(4), with the following:
It is essential to state that the physical properties of the nanofluid (with
nf subscripts) given in Equations (1)–(4) will be analyzed using the relations described in [
31].
In the same way, the boundary conditions take the following form:
4. Numerical Results and Discussion
To appraise the precision of our numerical procedure, we solved the problem provided by Shih and Tan [
32] by developing our code. In [
32], it was assumed that the top lid of cavity moved with variable velocity
. Further, the cavity was filled with a classical Newtonian fluid in the absence of any dipole. There is an analytical solution for this problem, in which the velocity distributions are defined by
and
. The horizontal velocity profile (calculated analytically and numerically) has been compared in
Figure 3.
In addition, the average Nusselt number on the hot wall is correlated with the established results (see in
Table 2) developed by Chen et al. [
33] and De Vahl Davis [
34]. Our numerical approach is validated by an excellent comparison. In addition,
Figure 4 depicts the computational grid that is used in this investigation. All numerical simulations are performed on a grid that is uniform with a step size
h = 0.01.
We will look at the impact of preeminent factors like the Reynolds number
, the nanoparticle volume fraction
, and the magnetic number
, with dipole interaction via cavity flow (caused by the upper and lower lids move in opposite directions). Water is considered to be the base fluid, while the only solid particles of Al
2O
3 are considered in the nanofluid. Furthermore, in our simulations, we set the value of
to be 0.10 and
, while the physical characteristics of water refer to
(
Table 3).
In the present case, the Eckert number is presumed to be quite small (e.g.,
) because of the comparatively smaller value of the Reynolds number. As illustrated in
Figure 5, a step size
has been used with a uniform grid that has been chosen in the context of the grid independence analysis.
The fundamental physical characteristics of the Nusselt number
and local skin friction
are:
and
where,
heat flux
shear stress.
By using the dimensionless variables, we obtain following relation:
and
Along the lower edge of cavity, the values of skin friction
and Nusselt number
will be taken into account (for which location of the dipole is at
). From
Figure 6, it can be seen that the influence of Reynold number and a magnetic field is likely to be similar for shear stress
and the Nusselt number
. The Nusselt number rises near the dipole location due to the increase in magnetic parameter
and the Reynold number
. The pattern of skin friction
is almost symmetric around the origin. We further notice that as
and
rises, the variation in the vorticity profile is steeper, which varies from negative values to positive values, whereas vorticity is zero at the point where the dipole is situated. However, the rotation in the fluid is observed in the positive and negative direction when the dipole moves from left to right. As the
and
increase, the rotation of the vortices in the opposite direction is noticed.
Figure 7 clearly shows this phenomenon.
Now we try to grasp the effect of the nanoparticle volume fraction on the Nusselt number and local skin friction. The change of Nusselt number and local skin fraction is not very sharp along the left and right adiabatic walls. It is noticed that the nanoparticle volume fraction upper the Nusselt number about the middle of the cavity while falls local skin friction around the dipole location.
At the beginning, when there is no dipole located near the cavity, the behavior of the streamlines is quite smooth with a clockwise vortex near the upper wall. As the upper plate is moving, a high-velocity gradient can be seen along the upper wall. An anticlockwise lowering vortex seems to appear near the dipole from right side with the impact of magnetic field. As the magnetic fields strengthen, this lower vortex starts growing, and another tiny vortex appears from the primary vortex. Consequently, there are three vortices in total at , and the two secondary vortices are originating near the dipole location.
The isotherm has a smooth pattern at the time when no magnetic field is applied, and the isotherms possess a region with a higher thermal gradient along the upper side of the left wall. The zone of higher temperature gradient is created by the applied magnetics around the location of the dipole (
Figure 8).
Figure 9 depicts that for
, there is a single primary vortex and the direction of streamline from left to right, it is due to the movement of the upper lid from left to rightward, which is why the flow velocity is more enhanced near the top lid. As we increase the Reynold number, another lowering anticlockwise vortex appears near the right wall of the bottom lid. This newly formed vortex gets bigger and bigger near the dipole for higher values of Reynold numbers and it is originates near the dipole.
It is obvious from
Figure 10 that the thermal field becomes steeper with increasing values of the Reynold number along the upper horizontal wall, and also creates a higher thermal gradient near the dipole location.
Table 4 shows that the Nusselt number is reduced by approximately
as a result of a
rise in the volume fraction of nanoparticles, equated to a
variation in the skin friction along the lower wall and negligible change in
. This reveals that
is even more efficient on the Nusselt number.
It can be seen from
Table 5 that a significant impact of the Reynolds number is noted for
,
, and
in comparison to the only
change in
. The reality of this fact is that an increase in the movement of the surface tends to enhance the Reynolds number for the fixed thermo-physical properties of nanofluids. Due to this phenomenon, heat energy varies near the moving walls.
Table 6 shows that magnifying the magnetic parameter
up to 3000 gives rise to
and
by 115% and 110%, respectively, and a remarkable variation is found in the shear stress along the bottom lid of the cavity, while a negligible change is in
. This means that the dipole is more efficient for shear stress along the lower wall rather than the upper wall of the cavity, and this happens due to the motion of the upper lid.