Abstract
The transport mechanism of laminar mixed convection in a square lid-driven cavity filled within Cu-water nanofluid is studied with the effects of partial slip and internal heat generation or absorption. Both the top and bottom walls of the cavity are thermally insulated and are moving
with constant speed in their own plane and the effect of partial slip is imposed on these walls. A heat source with constant volumetric rate is attached in a part of the left wall of the cavity and the remaining parts are thermally insulated. The right vertical wall of the cavity is assumed
to be kept at a lower temperature. The developed equations of the mathematical model are non-dimensionalized and then solved numerically subject to appropriate boundary conditions by the control finite volume method. Comparisons with previously published works are presented and found to be
in excellent agreement. A parametric study is performed and a set of graphical results is presented and discussed to demonstrate interesting features of the solution.