International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 23 Issue 8

Numerical simulation of two-phase reactive flow with moving boundary

Cheng Cheng, Xiaobing Zhang

In computational fluid dynamics for two-phase reactive flow of interior ballistic, the conventional schemes (MacCormack method, etc.) are known to introduce unphysical…

Effects of viscous dissipation and Newtonian heating on boundary-layer flow of nanofluids over a flat plate

Oluwole Daniel Makinde

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined effects of viscous dissipation and Newtonian heating on boundary-layer flow over a flat plate for three types of…

Natural convection from a vertical wall embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium filled with nanofluids

Sady Tavakoli, D.D. Ganji, Alireza Rasekh, Babak Haghighi, Hadi Jahani

– This work aims to focus on the study of natural convection heat transfer characteristics in a vertical wall embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium filled with nanofluids.

Surface-radiation effect on natural convection flow in a fluid-saturated non-Darcy porous medium enclosed by non-isothermal walls

M.A. Hossain, M. Saleem, R.S.R. Gorla

The purpose of this work is to study the effect of surface-radiation on the phenomenon of natural convection flow of a Newtonian fluid in a non-Darcian porous media cavity. The…

Direct modeling of material deposit and identification of energy transfer in gas metal arc welding

Michel Bellet, Makhlouf Hamide

The purpose of this paper is to present original methods related to the modeling of material deposit and associated heat sources for finite element simulation of gas metal arc…

A phenomenological bubble number density model developed for simulation of cavitating flows inside high-pressure diesel injection nozzles

Xiang Wang, Guangya Zhu, Ke Li

The present study aims to resolve the adjustment problem of cavitation bubble number density in simulations of the cavitating flows within the diesel injection nozzle holes using…

An interactive boundary layer modelling methodology for aerodynamic flows

Lelanie Smith, Oliver Oxtoby, A. Malan, Josua Meyer

– The purpose of this paper is to introduce a unique technique to couple the two-integral boundary layer solutions to a generic inviscid solver in an iterative fashion.

Mixed convective boundary layer flow over a vertical cylinder embedded in a porous medium saturated with a nanofluid

R.S.R. Gorla, Anwar Hossain

The purpose of this work is to study the mixed convection boundary layer flow past a vertical cylinder in a porous medium saturated with a nanofluid. Numerical results for…

Natural convection and radiation in porous fins

M.T. Darvishi, R.S.R. Gorla, F. Khani

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a numerical study of the convection heat transfer in porous media by the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The geometry considered is that of…

An extended finite element model for CO2 sequestration

Mojtaba Talebian, Rafid Al-Khoury, Lambertus J. Sluys

This paper aims to present a computationally efficient finite element model for the simulation of isothermal immiscible two-phase flow in a rigid porous media with a particular…

A numerical study of vortex shedding from a circular cylinder vibrating in the in-line direction

Satya Prakash Singh, Gautam Biswas, Perumal Nithiarasu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of forced, in-line oscillation of a circular cylinder on an incoming incompressible flow field at different Reynolds…

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