MHD natural convection with Joule and viscous heating effects in iso-flux porous medium-filled enclosures

摘要

In this study,the magnetohydrodynamics(MHD) natural convection heat transfer with Joule and viscous heating effects inside an iso-flux porous medium-filled inclined rectangular enclosure is studied numerically.An iso-heat flux is applied for heating and cooling the two opposing walls of the enclosure while the other walls are adi-abatic. The Forchheimer extension of Darcy-Oberbeck-Boussinesq and energy equations is transformed into a dimensionless form using a set of suitable variables instead of a finite difference scheme.The governing parameters are the magnetic influence number,the modified Rayleigh number,the inclination angle,and the aspect ratio of the enclosure. The results show that viscous and Joule heating effects decrease heat transfer rates.