The present research investigates second law analysis of laminar flow over a backward facing step (BFS). Entropy generation due to separation, reattachment, recirculation and heat transfer is studied numerically. Local entropy generation distributions were obtained by solving momentum, energy, and entropy generation equations. The effect of dimensionless temperature difference number (τ) and Br...

Abstract: We investigate the nature of heat transfer and entropy generation for natural convection in a two-dimensional circular section enclosure. The enclosure is assumed to fill with porous media. The Darcy momentum equation is used to model the porous media. The full governing differential equations are simplified with the Boussinesq approximation and solved by a finite volume method. Where...

We derive a new upper bound for Eve’s information in secret key generation from a common random number without communication. This bound improves on Bennett[7]’s bound based on the Rényi entropy of order 2 because the bound obtained here uses the Rényi entropy of order 1+s for s ∈ [0, 1]. This bound is applied to a wire-tap channel. Then, we derive an exponential upper bound for Eve’s informati...

This study discusses the application of Taguchi method in assessing minimum entropy generation and maximum heat transfer rate for natural convection in an enclosure embedded with isothermal cylinder. The simulations were planned based on Taguchi’s L25 orthogonal array with each trial performed under different conditions of position and aspect ratio (AR) of the cylinder. The thermal lattice Bolt...

Random number generators have direct applications in information security, online gaming, gambling, and computer science in general. True random number generators need an entropy source which is a physical source with inherent uncertainty, to ensure unpredictability of the output. In this paper we propose a new indirect approach to collecting entropy using human errors in the game play of a use...

Natural convection heat transfer combined with entropy generation in a square cavity filled with a nanofluid under the effect of variable temperature distribution along left vertical wall has been studied numerically. Governing equations formulated in dimensionless non-primitive variables with corresponding boundary conditions taking into account the Brownian diffusion and thermophoresis effect...