International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 28 Issue 11

A numerical algorithm for group control of conventional/unconventional production wells in hydrocarbon reservoirs

Mehdi Mosharaf-Dehkordi, Hamid Reza Ghafouri

The purpose of this paper is to present detailed algorithms for simulation of individual and group control of production wells in hydrocarbon reservoirs which are implemented in a…

Numerical treatment for Darcy–Forchheimer flow of nanofluid due to a rotating disk with convective heat and mass conditions

T. Hayat, Arsalan Aziz, Taseer Muhammad, A. Alsaedi

The purpose of this study is to examine the Darcy–Forchheimer flow of viscous nanoliquid because of a rotating disk. Thermophoretic diffusion and random motion aspects are…

A reliable convergent Adomian decomposition method for heat transfer through extended surfaces

Mustafa Turkyilmazoglu

This paper aims to revisite the traditional Adomian decomposition method frequently used for the solution of highly nonlinear extended surface problems in order to understand the…

Unsteady MHD boundary layer flow of tangent hyperbolic two-phase nanofluid of moving stretched porous wedge

A. Mahdy, Ali J. Chamkha

The purpose of this paper is to address the thermo-physical impacts of unsteady magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer flow of non-Newtonian tangent hyperbolic nanofluid past a…

Numerical simulation for fluid droplet impact on discrete particles with coupled SPH-DEM method

Yanqing Li, Daming Li, Shean Bie, Zhichao Wang, Hongqiang Zhang, Xingchen Tang, Zhu Zhen

A new coupled model is developed to simulate the interaction between fluid droplet collisions on discrete particles (DPs) by using mathematic function.

A computational framework for predicting the combustion of energetic materials in an expanding chamber

Chaobin Hu, Xiaobing Zhang

Various simplifications are introduced into the establishment of numerical models for problems with strong nonlinear interactions. The combustion of energetic materials in a…

An efficient Bi-cubic B-spline ADI method for numerical solutions of two-dimensional unsteady advection diffusion equations

Rajni Rohila, R.C. Mittal

This paper aims to develop a novel numerical method based on bi-cubic B-spline functions and alternating direction (ADI) scheme to study numerical solutions of advection diffusion…

Stability analysis on the stagnation-point flow and heat transfer over a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet with heat source effect

Fatinnabila Kamal, Khairy Zaimi, Anuar Ishak, Ioan Pop

This paper aims to analyze the behavior of the stagnation-point flow and heat transfer over a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in the presence of the viscous dissipation and…

Transport phenomena of fire-induced smoke flow in a semi-open vertical shaft

Decheng Li, Tiannian Zhou, Zegong Liu, Jian Wang

The purpose of this study is to investigate the transport phenomena of smoke flow in a semi-open vertical shaft.

A (2 + 1)-dimensional extension of the Benjamin-Ono equation: Multiple soliton solutions and multiple complex soliton solutions

Abdul-Majid Wazwaz

The purpose of this paper is concerned with developing a (2 + 1)-dimensional Benjamin–Ono equation. The study shows that multiple soliton solutions exist and multiple complex…

Finite element modeling of nonlinear reaction–diffusion–advection systems of equations

Sanjay Komala Sheshachala, Ramon Codina

This paper aims to present a finite element formulation to approximate systems of reaction–diffusion–advection equations, focusing on cases with nonlinear reaction. The…

Numerical determination of interfacial heat transfer coefficient for an aligned dual scale porous medium

Safa Sabet, Moghtada Mobedi, Murat Barisik, Akira Nakayama

Fluid flow and heat transfer in a dual scale porous media is investigated to determine the interfacial convective heat transfer coefficient, numerically. The studied porous media…

Buoyancy-induced convection of water-based nanofluids from an enclosed heated cylinder

Alessandro Quintino, Marta Cianfrini, Paweł Ocłoń, Elisa Ricci, M. Corcione

Laminar natural convection of nanofluids in a square cooled cavity enclosing a heated horizontal cylinder is studied numerically. This paper aims to investigate in what measure…