Pabitra Halder

Bio: Pabitra Halder is an academic researcher from Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reynolds number & Heat transfer. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 101 citations.

Hydromagnetic Mixed Convective Transport in a Vertical Lid-Driven Cavity Including a Heat Conducting Rotating Circular Cylinder

Abstract: Two-dimensional numerical simulation is performed for the hydromagnetic mixed convective transport in a vertical lid-driven square enclosure filled with an electrically conducting fluid in the presence of a heat conducting and rotating solid circular cylinder. Both the top and bottom horizontal walls of the enclosure are considered thermally insulated, and the left and right vertical walls are kept isothermal with different temperatures. The left wall is moving in the upward direction at a uniform speed, while all other walls are stationary. A uniform magnetic field is applied along the horizontal direction normal to the moving wall. A heat conducting circular cylinder is placed centrally within the outer enclosure. The cylinder is made to rotate in its own plane about its centroidal axis. Both the clockwise and counterclockwise rotations of the cylinder are considered. All solid walls are assumed electrically insulated. Simulations are performed for various controlling parameters, such as the Richardson ...

MHD Mixed Convective Transport in Square Enclosure with Two Rotating Circular Cylinders

Abstract: This study investigates the two-dimensional hydromagnetic mixed convective transport in a cooled square enclosure filled with an electrically conducting fluid in presence of two inner heated circular cylinders with identical shape. The centers of the two equidiameter cylinders are placed at those of the lower and upper half of the enclosure, respectively, and the gap between the cylinders is kept fixed. The cylinders may be either kept stationary or made to rotate in their own plane about their centroidal axes. Additionally, cylinders may rotate either in the same direction or in the opposite direction. All of the walls of the enclosure are kept isothermal with temperatures less than that of the cylinders. A uniform magnetic field is applied along the horizontal direction normal to the vertical wall. All solid walls are assumed electrically insulated. Simulations are performed by deploying a finite volume technique for various controlling parameters, such as the Rayleigh number (103 ≤ Ra ≤ 105) and Hartma...

Unsteady Forced Convection Heat Transfer Over a Semicircular Cylinder at Low Reynolds Numbers

Abstract: An unsteady two-dimensional numerical simulation is performed to investigate the laminar forced convection heat transfer for flow past a semicircular cylinder in an unconfined medium. The Reynolds number considered in this study ranges from 50 to 150 with a fixed Prandtl number (Pr = 0.71). Two different configurations of the semicircular cylinder are considered; one when the curved surface facing the flow and the other when the flat surface facing the flow. Fictitious confining boundaries are chosen on the lateral sides of the computational domain that makes the blockage ratio B = 5% in order to make the problem computationally feasible. A finite volume-based technique is used for the numerical computation. The flow and heat transfer characteristics are analyzed with the streamline and isotherm patterns at various Reynolds numbers. The dimensionless frequency of vortex shedding (Strouhal number), drag coefficient, and Nusselt numbers are presented and discussed. Substantial differences in the global flow...

Magnetoconvective Transport in a Vertical Lid-Driven Cavity Including a Heat Conducting Square Cylinder with Joule Heating

Abstract: The hydromagnetic mixed convection flow and heat transfer in a vertical lid-driven square enclosure is numerically simulated following a finite volume approach based on the SIMPLEC algorithm. Both the top and bottom horizontal walls of the enclosure are insulated, and the left and right vertical walls are kept isothermal with different temperatures. The left vertical wall is translating in its own plane at a uniform speed, while all other walls are stationary. Two cases of translational lid motion, viz. vertically upward and downward, are considered. A uniform magnetic field is applied along the horizontal direction normal to the translating wall. A heat conducting horizontal solid square cylinder is placed centrally within the outer enclosure. Simulations are conducted for various controlling parameters, such as the Richardson number (1 ≤ Ri ≤ 10), Hartmann number (0 ≤ Ha ≤ 50), and Joule heating parameter (0 ≤ J ≤ 5), keeping the Reynolds number based on lid velocity fixed as Re = 100. The flow and ther...

Field-synergy and nanoparticle’s diameter analysis on circular jet impingement using three oxide–water-based nanofluids

Abstract: The field synergy study is carried out using three oxide nanofluids impinging circular jet on the horizontal circular disc to analyse the synergetic interaction of cooling processes between temperature and flows fields. The h eat transfer effect o f the nanofluid is examined by rising the Reynolds number and the nanoparticle concentration depending on field synergy number. For jet impinged cooling process, the scale of synergy between the nanofluid flow speed and temperature is decayed with the increase of Reynolds number. Hence, it is contributed to a lower heat transfer efficiency of the nanofluid. Whe reas, the scale of synergy between the nanofluid flow speed and temperature can be enhanced by rising the particle concentration. Thus, the heat transfer efficiency of the nanofluid is increased. Analysis showed that Al2O3 nanofluid has the maximum relative field synergy among selected three oxide nanofluids. It is evident that the nanoparticle concentration, nanoparticle material and Reynolds number have significant effect on the heat transfer augmentation. In addition, the study is explored by varying jet-disk spacing. Moreover, the investigation has shown that the reducing heat transfer effect for the materials is Al2O3, CuO and TiO2 subsequently. It is revealed that the heat enhancement is higher for smaller nanoparticle’s diameter (i.e., 20 nm) than bigger nanoparticle’s diameter (i.e., 80 nm) of the same material.

Simulation of nanofluid heat transfer in presence of magnetic field: A review

Abstract: Existence of magnetic field causes heat transfer to reduce in free convection but in several engineering uses for example: electronic application; enhancing heat transfer is a purpose. Thus, nanofluid should be selected as working fluid. Nanofluid is dispersion of very small metal particles in the base fluid. Two phase and single phase are two ways for estimating the behavior of nanofluid. At first model, nanofluid suppose as homogenous fluid without any slip mechanism. But in second method, slip velocities are included. Brownian motion and Thermophoresis impacts are taken into consideration in second approach. In this paper, previous publications about nanofluid hydrothermal treatment in existence of magnetic field are reviewed. Rely of variable and constant magnetic fields, Ferrohydrodynamic (FHD) and Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) can take role in simulations. Numerical and analytical methods are considered by authors. Results proved that temperature gradient augments with augment of solid particle concentration and buoyancy forces, while it decreases with augment of magnetic field.

Mixed convection in a lid-driven square cavity with partial slip

Abstract: Steady laminar mixed convection inside a lid-driven square cavity filled with water is studied numerically. The lid is due to the movement of the isothermal top and bottom walls which are maintained at T c and T h , respectively, with T h is higher than T c . A partial slip condition was imposed in these two moving walls. The vertical walls of the cavity are kept adiabatic. The appliance of the numerical analysis was USR finite difference method with upwind scheme treatments of the convective terms included in the momentum and energy equations. The studied relevant parameters were: the partial slip parameter S (0–∞); Richardson number Ri (0.01–100) and the direction of the moving walls ( λ t = 1, λ b = ±1). The results have showed that there are critical values for the partial slip parameter at which the convection is declined.

Mixed convection in superposed nanofluid and porous layers in square enclosure with inner rotating cylinder

Abstract: In this study, numerical simulation of mixed convection in a partitioned square cavity having CuO-Water nanofluid and superposed porous medium with an adiabatic rotating cylinder is performed. The bottom horizontal wall of the cavity is heated and the top horizontal wall is cooled while the remaining vertical walls are insulated. An adiabatic rotating cylinder is located at the center of the square cavity. Galerkin weighted residual finite element method is utilized to solve the governing equations of the system. The influence of Rayleigh number (between 103 and 106), angular rotational velocity of the cylinder (between 0 and 6000), solid volume fraction of the nanoparticle (between 0 % and 0.05 % ), Darcy number (between 10−5 and 10−2) and three different vertical locations of the cylinder on the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics are numerically investigated in detail for three different cylinder sizes. It is observed that the averaged heat transfer enhances as the value of Rayleigh number, angular rotational speed of the cylinder, nanoparticle volume fraction and Darcy number increase. The effect of the angular rotational speed of the cylinder on the averaged heat transfer enhancement is more pronounced for large cylinder size and 432.55% of averaged enhancement is achieved for Ω = 6000 compared to motionless cylinder case at Ω = 0 using cylinder sizes of R=0.3. The averaged heat transfer enhances almost linearly with nanoparticle volume fraction for different cylinder sizes and adding solid nanoparticles to the base fluid is favorable for the locations when high values of local Nusselt number is observed. Local and averaged Nusselt number enhance as the cylinder approaches to the upper wall of the cavity.

MHD mixed convection in a lid-driven cavity filled by a nanofluid with sinusoidal temperature distribution on the both vertical walls using Buongiorno’s nanofluid model

Abstract: In the present contribution, a numerical investigation is presented to study Buongiorno’s nanofluid model for MHD mixed convection of a lid-driven cavity filled with nanofluid. A sinusoidal temperature and nanoparticle volume fraction distributions on both vertical sides is considered where the horizontal walls are kept adiabatic. The cavity is permeated by an inclined uniform magnetic field and the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis are incorporated into the nanofluids model. An accurate collocated finite volume method is employed to discretize the governing partial differential equations after converting them to a non-dimensional form using a suitable transformation variables. Comparisons with previously published work are performed and excellent agreement is obtained. The computation is carried out for wide ranges of the Hartmann number Ha ( 0 ⩽ Ha ⩽ 100 ) , buoyancy ratio Nr ( 0.1 ⩽ Nr ⩽ 1 ) , thermophoresis number Nt ( 0.1 ⩽ Nt ⩽ 1 ) , Brownian motion parameter Nb ( 0.1 ⩽ Nb ⩽ 1 ) , Lewis number Le ( 1 ⩽ Le ⩽ 10 ) , Prandtl number Pr ( 0.054 ⩽ Pr ⩽ 10 ) , inclined magnetic field angle γ ( 0 o ⩽ γ ⩽ 3 π / 2 ) , Amplitude e ( 0 ⩽ e ⩽ 1.5 ) , phase angle ξ ( 0 o ⩽ ξ ⩽ 3 π / 4 ) and Richardson number Ri ( 0.001 ⩽ Ri ⩽ 100 ) . The obtained results are presented in terms of the streamlines, isotherms and nanoparticles volume fraction contours as well as local Nusselt number. Results demonstrate that, the presence of an inclined magnetic filed in the flow region leads to lose the fluid movement. Also, the fluid flow is dominated by the movement of the upper wall in the case of the highest values of the buoyancy ratio.

Mixed convection in a partially layered porous cavity with an inner rotating cylinder

Abstract: In this study, mixed convection in a cavity that has a fluid and superposed porous medium with an adiabatic rotating cylinder is numerically investigated. The bottom horizontal wall is heated and the top horizontal wall is cooled while the remaining walls are assumed to be adiabatic. An adiabatic rotating cylinder is inserted inside the cavity. The governing equations are solved by the Galerkin weighted residual finite element method. The effects of Rayleigh number (between 103 and 106), angular rotational speed of the cylinder (between 0 and 6,000), Darcy number (between 10−5 and 10−2), cylinder sizes (between R = 0.1 and R = 0.3) and three different vertical locations of the cylinder on the fluid flow and heat transfers characteristics are numerically investigated. It is observed that the cylinder size has a profound effect on the local and averaged heat transfer. The local and averaged heat transfers generally increase and the convection is more effective in the upper half of the cavity as the ...