Yes / This article presents the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) employed to investigate the
effects of inclination on the thermal behavior of a porous fin heat sink. The study aims to review the
thermal characterization of heat sink with the inclined porous fin of rectangular geometry. The study
establishes that heat sink of an inclined porous fin shows a higher thermal performance compared
to a heat sink of equal dimension with a vertical porous fin. In addition, the study also shows that
the performance of inclined or tilted fin increases with decrease in length–thickness aspect ratio.
The study further reveals that increase in the internal heat generation variable decreases the fin
temperature gradient, which invariably decreases the heat transfer of the fin. The obtained results
using HPM highlights the accuracy of the present method for the analysis of nonlinear heat transfer
problems, as it agrees well with the established results of Runge–Kutta. / Supported in part by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund of Federal Government of Nigeria, and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016SECRET-722424.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/16637 |
| Date | 15 October 2018 |
| Creators | Oguntala, George A., Sobamowo, G., Ahmed, Y., Abd-Alhameed, Raed |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)., CC-BY |
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