TY - JOUR T1 - Natural Convection of Temperature-Sensitive Magnetic Fluids in Porous Media AU - Roussellet , Valentin AU - Niu , Xiaodong AU - Yamaguchi , Hiroshi AU - Magoulés , Frédéric JO - Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics VL - 1 SP - 121 EP - 130 PY - 2011 DA - 2011/03 SN - 3 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/aamm.10-m1036 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/aamm/160.html KW - Temperature sensitive magnetic fluid, natural convection, porous media, lattice Boltzmann method. AB -

In this article, natural convection of a temperature-sensitive magnetic fluid in a porous media is studied numerically by using lattice Boltzmann method. Results show that the heat transfer decreases when the ball numbers increase. When the magnetic field is increased, the heat transfer is enhanced; however, the average wall Nusselt number increases at small ball numbers but decreases at large ball numbers due to the induced flow being more likely confined near the bottom walls with a high number of obstacles.