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热边界条件对非牛顿幂律流体自然对流与熵生成的影响

Effects of Thermal Boundary Conditions on Natural Convection and Entropy Generation in Non-Newtonian Power-Law Fluids

Institute for Applied and Computational Mathematics, RWTH Aachen University(亚琛工业大学应用与计算数学研究所)

Lambert Theisen, Satyvir Singh

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研究探讨了热边界条件对非牛顿幂律流体在方形腔和同心圆环中自然对流及熵生成的影响,通过数值方法验证了牛顿和非牛顿对流的基准解,分析了流体 rheology 和加热模式对对流和熵生成的影响。

摘要:

本研究探讨了热边界条件对非牛顿幂律流体在方形腔和同心圆环中自然对流及熵生成的影响。基于不可压缩幂律模型和 Boussinesq 近似,利用 Gridap.jl 有限元框架求解稳态、二维控制方程。数值方法通过与牛顿和非牛顿对流的基准解对比,显示出在等温场、流线、局部努塞尔数分布和熵生成方面的一致性。研究分析了剪切稀释、牛顿和剪切增稠流体在均匀和非均匀热边界条件下的影响。结果表明,剪切稀释行为增强了浮力驱动循环,使热梯度陡峭,提高了传热,而剪切增稠行为抑制了对流,促进导热主导的传输。热边界条件在控制流动、传热和不可逆性强度和空间分布中起重要作用。在两种几何结构中,均匀加热产生更强且分布更广的对流结构,而非均匀正弦加热局部化热强迫并一致减少总熵生成。熵分析进一步表明,剪切稀释流体中粘性耗散主导不可逆性,而随着幂律指数增加,热传递不可逆性成为主导因素。研究显示,适当设计热边界条件与流体 rheology 可有效控制传热并最小化热力学损失。源代码和元数据已公开。

英文摘要:

This study investigates the role of thermal boundary conditions on natural convection and entropy generation in non-Newtonian power-law fluids confined within a square cavity and a concentric cylindrical annulus. Steady, two-dimensional governing equations based on the incompressible power-law model and the Boussinesq approximation are solved using the Gridap.jl finite element framework. The numerical methodology is validated against benchmark solutions for both Newtonian and non-Newtonian convection, showing good agreement in terms of isotherm fields, streamlines, local Nusselt number distributions, and entropy generation. The effects of fluid rheology and heating mode are examined for shear-thinning, Newtonian, and shear-thickening fluids under uniform and non-uniform thermal boundary conditions. The results show that shear-thinning behavior enhances buoyancy-driven circulation, steepens thermal gradients, and increases heat transfer, whereas shear-thickening behavior suppresses convection and promotes conduction-dominated transport. Thermal boundary conditions are found to play an important role in controlling the intensity and spatial distribution of flow, heat transfer, and irreversibility. In both geometries, uniform heating produces stronger and more distributed convective structures, while non-uniform sinusoidal heating localizes thermal forcing and consistently reduces total entropy generation. An entropy analysis further reveals that viscous dissipation dominates irreversibility in shear-thinning fluids, whereas heat-transfer irreversibility becomes dominant as the power-law index increases. The study demonstrates that appropriate thermal boundary design, together with fluid rheology, provides an effective route for controlling heat transfer and minimizing thermodynamic losses in non-Newtonian convection systems. The source code and metadata are publicly available.

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