International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 24 Issue 5

Mixed convection boundary layer flow past a vertical flat plate embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium saturated by a nanofluid

Natalia C. Roşca, Alin V. Roşca, Teodor Groşan, Ioan Pop

The purpose of this paper is to numerically solve the problem of steady mixed convection boundary layer flow past a vertical flat plate embedded in a fluid-saturated porous medium…

Flow into a hole in relation to laser drilling: influence of coating thickness

Shahzada Zaman Shuja, Bekir Yilbas

In laser drilling applications, hole wall remains almost the melting temperature of the substrate material and the thermodynamic pressure developed at high temperature molten…

Analytic approximate solutions for time-dependent flow and heat transfer of a Sisko fluid

Masood Khan, Azeem Shahzad, Asia Anjum, Fazal M. Mahomed

– The purpose of this paper is to find analytic approximate solutions for time-dependent flow and heat transfer of a Sisko fluid.

A new algorithm for internal heat generation in nanofluid flow due to a stretching sheet in a porous medium

P.K. Kameswaran, Z.G. Makukula, P. Sibanda, S.S. Motsa, P.V.S.N. Murthy

The purpose of this paper is to study heat and mass transfer in copper-water and silver-water nanofluid flow over stretching sheet placed in saturated porous medium with internal…

Flow over a heated block in a vertical channel : Influence of block aspect ratio and tilting on heat transfer rates

Shahzada Zaman Shuja, Bekir Yilbas

The heat transfer rates from the body to the working fluid can be improved through altering geometric configurations of the body and its arrangement in the flow system. One of the…

Analysis of natural convection in a square cavity with a thin partition for linearly heated side walls

M. Sathiyamoorthy, Ali J. Chamkha

– The purpose of this paper is to optimize the heat transfer rate in square cavity by attaching fin at the bottom wall.

MHD three-dimensional flow of Maxwell fluid with variable thermal conductivity and heat source/sink

T. Hayat, S.A. Shehzad, A. Alsaedi

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the three-dimensional flow of Maxwell fluid with variable thermal conductivity in presence of heat source/sink.

New correlations for wavy plate-fin heat exchangers: different working fluids

Morteza Khoshvaght Aliabadi, Faramarz Hormozi, Elham Hosseini Rad

The main purpose of this paper is the generation of the heat transfer and pressure drop correlations by considering three working fluids, namely air, water, and ethylene glycol…

Unsteady convective flow past an exponentially accelerated infinite vertical porous plate with Newtonian heating and viscous dissipation

V. Rajesh, Ali J. Chamkha

The purpose of this paper is to consider unsteady free convection flow of a dissipative fluid past an exponentially accelerated infinite vertical porous plate in the presence of…

Effects of chemical reaction and thermal radiation on unsteady double diffusive convection

A.M. Rashad, Sameh Elsayed Ahmed, Mohamed Ahmed Mansour

The purpose of this numerical paper is to investigate the simulation of an unsteady double diffusive natural convection in square enclosure filled with a porous medium with…

Projection method for high-order compact schemes for low Mach number flows in enclosures

Artur Tyliszczak

Variable density flows play an important role in many technological devices and natural phenomena. The purpose of this paper is to develop a robust and accurate method for low…

Mixed convection boundary layer flow from a vertical truncated cone in a nanofluid

F.O. Pătrulescu, T. Groşan, I. Pop

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the steady mixed convection boundary layer flow from a vertical frustum of a cone in water-based nanofluids. The problem is formulated…

MHD nanofluid flow analysis in divergent and convergent channels using WRMs and numerical method

M. Hatami, D.D. Ganji

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the eligibility of the Weighted Residual Methods (WRMs) applied to magneto hydro dynamic (MHD) nanofluid flow in divergent and…

Finite difference approach in porous media transport modeling for magnetohydrodynamic unsteady flow over a vertical plate : Darcian model

Sahin Ahmed, Abdul Batin, Ali J. Chamkha

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of Darcian drag force and radiation-conduction on unsteady two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flow of viscous, electrically…