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A Significant Solar Energy Note on Powell-Eyring Nanofluid with Thermal Jump Conditions: Implementing Cattaneo-Christov Heat Flux Model

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  • Nidal H. Abu-Hamdeh

    (Center of Research Excellence in Renewable Energy and Power Systems, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia)

  • Radi A. Alsulami

    (Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21511, Saudi Arabia)

  • Muhyaddin J. H. Rawa

    (Center of Research Excellence in Renewable Energy and Power Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia)

  • Mashhour A. Alazwari

    (Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21511, Saudi Arabia)

  • Marjan Goodarzi

    (Mechanical Engineering Department, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77706, USA
    Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 21521, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

  • Mohammad Reza Safaei

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA
    Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan)

Abstract

PTSCs (parabolic trough solar collectors) are widely employed in solar-thermal applications to attain high temperatures. The purpose of this study is to determine how much entropy is created when Powell-Eyring nanofluid (P-ENF) flows across porous media on a horizontal plane under thermal jump circumstances. The flow in PTSC was generated by nonlinear surface stretching, thermal radiation, and Cattaneo-Christov heat flux, which was utilized to compute heat flux in the thermal boundary layer. Using a similarity transformation approach, partial differential equations were converted into ordinary differential equations with boundary constraints. Then, the boundary restrictions and partial differential equations were merged to form a single set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. To obtain approximate solutions to ordinary differential equations, the Keller-Box approach is utilized. Nanofluids derived from silver- and copper-based engine oil (EO) has been employed as working fluids. The researchers observed that changing the permeability parameter reduced the Nusselt number while increasing the skin frictional coefficient. Total entropy variation was also calculated using the Brinkman number for flow rates with Reynolds number and viscosity changes. The key result is that thermal efficiency is inversely proportional to particular entropy production. For example, using Cu-EO nanofluid instead of Ag-EO nanofluid increased the heat transport rate efficiency to 15–36%.

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  • Nidal H. Abu-Hamdeh & Radi A. Alsulami & Muhyaddin J. H. Rawa & Mashhour A. Alazwari & Marjan Goodarzi & Mohammad Reza Safaei, 2021. "A Significant Solar Energy Note on Powell-Eyring Nanofluid with Thermal Jump Conditions: Implementing Cattaneo-Christov Heat Flux Model," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(21), pages 1-16, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:9:y:2021:i:21:p:2669-:d:661658
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