International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 19 Issue 5

Numerical simulation of pulsatile turbulent flow in tapering stenosed arteries

Bin Xiao, Yuwen Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the geometric effects and pulsatile characteristics during the stenotic flows in tapering arteries.

Non‐equilibrium viscous shock‐layer technique for computing hypersonic flow around blunt‐nosed slender bodies

S. Ghasemloo, M. Mani

The purpose of this paper is to present a non‐equilibrium viscous shock layer (VSL) solution procedure that considerably improves computational efficiency, especially for long…

Fast transient solution of a two‐layered counter‐flow microchannel heat sink

S.L. Beh, K.‐K. Tio, G.A. Quadir, K.N. Seetharamu

The purpose of this paper is to apply asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE) to the transient analysis of a two‐layered counter‐flow microchannel heat sink.

Thermophoresis particle deposition – thermal radiation interaction on natural convection heat and mass transfer from vertical permeable surfaces

H.M. Duwairi, Rebhi. A. Damseh

The purpose of this paper is to study thermophoresis particle deposition and thermal radiation interaction on natural convection heat and mass transfer by steady boundary layer…

Flow over solid blocks in open ended cavity: Effects of blocks' orientations and aspect ratios on the heat transfer rates

S.Z. Shuja, B.S. Yilbas, S.M.A. Khan

The purpose of this paper is to consider flow over heat generating bodies in an open‐ends cavity, which finds applications in electronics cooling and industrial processing. Heat…

Conjugate heat transfer in porous triangular enclosures with thick bottom wall

Yasin Varol, Hakan F. Oztop, Ioan Pop

The purpose of this paper is to study the conjugate heat transfer via natural convection and conduction in a triangular enclosure filled with a porous medium.

Pressure drop caused by two‐phase flow of oil/water emulsions through sudden expansions and contractions: a computational approach

Manmatha K. Roul, Sukanta K. Dash

The purpose of this paper is to compute the pressure drop through sudden expansions and contractions for two‐phase flow of oil/water emulsions.

Geometrical and Rayleigh number effects in the transient laminar free convection between two vertically eccentric spheres

Mamadou Lamine Sow, Joseph Sarr, Cheikh Mbow, Babacar Mbow, Bernard Claudet, Mamadou Mansour Kane

The purpose of this paper is to study the transient natural convection of a Newtonian fluid which develops in a closed spherical annulus delimited by two vertically eccentric…