Sady Tavakoli, D.D. Ganji, Alireza Rasekh, Babak Haghighi and Hadi Jahani
– This work aims to focus on the study of natural convection heat transfer characteristics in a vertical wall embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium filled with nanofluids.
Abstract
Purpose
This work aims to focus on the study of natural convection heat transfer characteristics in a vertical wall embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium filled with nanofluids.
Design/methodology/approach
The governed partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations which are obtained by similarity solution and then have been solved through homotopy analysis method.
Findings
The results show that Cu-water as nanofluid enhances the local Nusselt number more than other nanofluids.
Originality/value
Nanoparticles and nanofluid enhance the local Nusselt number.