International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 25 Issue 8

Mixed convection over an inclined wavy surface embedded in a nanofluid saturated porous medium

D. Srinivasacharya , P. Vijay Kumar

– The purpose of this paper is to study the mixed convection in a nanofluid along an inclined wavy surface embedded in a porous medium.

Numerical analysis of effect of magnetic field on combined surface tension and buoyancy driven convection in partially heated open enclosure

N. Nagarajan, Hakan F. Öztop, A. Shamadhani Begum, Khaled Al-Salem

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the effects of magnetic field on the flow driven by the combined mechanism of buoyancy and thermocapillary flow in an open enclosure…

Effect of curvature and magnetic field on MHD flow of a liquid metal in a curved annular duct

Panteleimon A. Bakalis, Pavlos M. Hatzikonstantinou

The steady laminar quasi-3D fully developed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a liquid metal in a curved annular channel is studied in order to determine the effect of the…

Integrated assessment of water resources vulnerability under climate change in Haihe River Basin

Xiao-Hua Yang, Chong-Li Di, Jun He, Jian Zhang, Yu-Qi Li

– The purpose of this paper is to assess the water resources vulnerability (WRV) rationally in Haihe River Basin (HRB) using set pair analysis (SPA) theory.

Local fractional differential equations by the Exp-function method

Zhijuan Jia, Mingsheng Hu, Qiaoling Chen, Suimin Jai

The fractional complex transform is used to convert the fractional differential equation to its differential partner and the exp-function method is to solve the resultant…

Rheological effects on the levelling dynamics of thin fluid films

Gulraiz Ahmed, Mathieu Sellier, Yeaw Chu Lee, Mark Jermy, Michael Taylor

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate numerically the effect of rheology on the leveling of thin fluid films on horizontal solid substrates.

Numerical study for transport of water based nanofluids through an asymmetric channel with wavy walls

Tasawar Hayat, Fahad Munir Abbasi, Bashir Ahmad

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for the peristaltic transport of water-based nanofluids and to analyze the impact of nanoparticles on the heat transfer…

A model for allometric permeation in fractal branching channel net driven by capillary pressure

Jie Fan, Na Zhu, Zhi Liu, Qian Cheng, Yong Liu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the allometric permeation performance in fractal branching channel net driven by capillary pressure and analyze how the geometrical…

Numerical simulation of flow field around the race car in case: Stationary wheel and rotating wheels

Tien Phuc Dang, Zhengqi Gu, Zhen Chen

The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the flow field structure around the race car in two cases: stationary wheel and rotating wheel. In addition, this…

Unconditional convergence of the Euler semi-implicit scheme for the 3D incompressible MHD equations: Numerical implementation

Guo-Dong Zhang, Yinnian He

The purpose of this paper is to consider the numerical implementation of the Euler semi-implicit scheme for three-dimensional non-stationary magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations…

Magnetic field effect on the unsteady natural convection in a right-angle trapezoidal cavity filled with a nanofluid: Buongiorno’s mathematical model

N.S. Bondareva, M. A. Sheremet, I. Pop

Unsteady natural convection of water-based nanofluid within a right-angle trapezoidal cavity under the influence of a uniform inclined magnetic field using the mathematical…

A parallel partition of unity method for the time-dependent convection-diffusion equations

Guangzhi Du, Yanren Hou

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a parallel partition of unity method to solve the time-dependent convection-diffusion equations.

Pore-scale numerical investigations of fluid flow in porous media using lattice Boltzmann method

Cheng Gao, Rui-Na Xu, Pei-Xue Jiang

Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is employed to explore friction factor of single-phase fluid flow through porous media and the effects of local porous structure including geometry…

Effect of fin and tube configuration on heat transfer of an internally finned tube

Kailash Mohapatra, Dipti Prasad Mishra

– The purpose of this paper is to determine the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of an internally finned tube for different flow conditions.

Analysis of unsteady mixed convection in lid-driven cavity included circular cylinders motion using an incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics method

Abdelraheem M. Aly, Mitsuteru Asai, Ali J. Chamkha

The purpose of this paper is to model mixed convection in a square cavity included circular cylinders motion using an incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (ISPH…

Numerical study on the pressure drop of fluid flow in rough microchannels via the lattice Boltzmann method

Zheng Bo, Qi Zhao, Xiaorui Shuai, Jianhua Yan, Kefa Cen

– The purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative assessment on the effect of wall roughness on the pressure drop of fluid flow in microchannels.