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Four illustrative models are considered: (i) heat transfer irreversibility (HTI), (ii) fluid friction irreversibility (FFI), (iii) Joule dissipation irreversibility (JDI), and (iv) non-Darcy porous media irreversibility (NDI). The governing equations of continuity, momentum, energy, and entropy generation are simplified by taking long wavelength approximations on the channel walls. The results represent highly nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equations that are solved analytically with the help of the homotopy analysis method. It is shown that for minimum and maximum averaged entropy generation, 0.3% by vol and 0.9% by vol of nanoparticles, respectively, are observed. Also, a rise in entropy is evident due to an increase in pressure gradient. The current analysis provides an adequate theoretical estimate for low-cost purification of drinking water by silver nanoparticles in an industrial process.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e20110851","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,7]],"date-time":"2018-11-07T03:45:22Z","timestamp":1541562322000},"page":"851","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":44,"title":["Modelling Study on Internal Energy Loss Due to Entropy Generation for Non-Darcy Poiseuille Flow of Silver-Water Nanofluid: An Application of Purification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Nasir","family":"Shehzad","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics &amp; Statistics, FBAS, IIUI, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2641-1575","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ahmed","family":"Zeeshan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics &amp; Statistics, FBAS, IIUI, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7805-8259","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rahmat","family":"Ellahi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics &amp; Statistics, FBAS, IIUI, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"},{"name":"Center for Modeling &amp; Computer Simulation, Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum &amp; Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia"}]},{"given":"Saman","family":"Rashidi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad 91775-1111, Iran"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Darcy, H. 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