International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 24 Issue 1

Free convection in a tilted triangle porous cavity filled with Cu-water nanofluid with flush mounted heater on the wall

Qiang Sun, Ioan Pop

Steady-state free convection heat transfer and fluid flow of Cu-water nanofluid is investigated within a porous tilted right-angle triangular enclosure. The paper aims to discuss…

A run time combustion zoning technique towards the EDC approach in large-scale CFD simulations

Hitesh S. Vaid, Kanwar Devesh Singh, Helen H. Lou, Daniel Chen, Peyton Richmond

This paper aims to present a novel run time combustion zoning (RTCZ) technique based on the working principle of eddy dissipation concept (EDC) for combustion modeling. This…

Modeling of mixed convective heat transfer utilizing nanofluid in a double lid-driven chamber with internal heat generation

Rehena Nasrin, M.A. Alim, Ali J. Chamkha

This work is focused on the numerical modeling of mixed convective heat transfer in a double lid-driven cavity filled with water-CuO nanofluid in the presence of internal heat…

Parallel analysis of thermal field in a layered DC cable part I: The model, discretization, time decomposition, minimization of perturbations

Jerzy Golebiowski, Robert Piotr Bycul

– The paper aims to propose a parallel algorithm in order to increase speed and efficiency of an analysis of transient thermal field in layered DC cables.

A novel Laplace decomposition method for non-linear stretching sheet problem in the presence of MHD and slip condition

Yasir Khan

This paper aims to suggest a novel modified Laplace decomposition method (MLDM) for MHD flow over a non-linear stretching sheet with slip condition by suitable choice of an…

Simulation of turbulent duct flow by employing shear-improved Smagorinsky model accompanied by forced generalized lattice Boltzmann method

S. Jafari, M. Rahnama, E. Jahanshahi Javaran

– The present work aims to deal with simulation of turbulent duct flow using generalized lattice Boltzmann equation (GLBE) in which large eddy simulation was employed.

Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent channel flow by an improved vortex in cell method

Tomomi Uchiyama, Yutaro Yoshii, Hirotaka Hamada

This study is concerned with the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent channel flow by an improved vortex in cell (VIC) method. The paper aims to discuss these issues…

Application of new optimal homotopy perturbation and Adomian decomposition methods to the MHD non-Newtonian fluid flow over a stretching sheet

Yasir Khan, Habibolla Latifizadeh

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new modified version of the homotopy perturbation method (NMHPM) and Adomian decomposition method (ADM) for solving the nonlinear…

A numerical investigation of heat transfer in a smooth bend part of a U-duct

Tareq Salameh, Bengt Sunden

– The aim of this paper is to study two-dimensional numerical simulations of the flow and temperature fields inside the bend (turn) part of a U-duct.

Numerical study of three-dimensional combined buoyancy and thermocapillary convection and evaluation of entropy generation

Hakan F. Oztop, Kolsi Lioua, Borjini Mohamad Naceur, Khaled Al-Salem

The main purpose of this paper is to conduct on three-dimensional buoyancy and thermocapillary convection in an enclosure. Entropy generation is obtained from the calculated…

A direct heating immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method for thermal flows

Oluyinka O. Bamiro, William W. Liou

The purpose of the current paper is to develop a numerical methodology, based on the immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann computational framework, for the Neumann and Dirichlet…

Modelling of a desiccant rotor by using the collocation method

Marcello Aprile, Mario Motta

– This article aims to develop a fast numerical method for solving the one-dimensional heat and mass transfer problem within a desiccant rotor.

Natural convection melting of NEPCM in a cavity with an obstacle using lattice Boltzmann method

Ahmad Ali Rabienataj Darzi, Mousa Farhadi, Mahmoud Jourabian, Yousef Vazifeshenas

The aim of this study is to apply an enthalpy-based lattice Boltzmann method with multi distribution function model, to investigate melting process with natural convection inside…

Coupled magneto-buoyant convection and radiation in an inclined enclosure: An exhaustive study

Sofen K. Jena, Swarup K. Mahapatra, Amitava Sarkar

The current study aims to address the interaction between participating media radiation with thermo-gravitational convection of an electrically conducting fluid enclosed within a…

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