International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 30 Issue 10

Doubly stratified non-Newtonian nanofluid flow featuring nonlinear convection

Iqra Shahzadi, Nabeela Kausar

The formulation of nonlinear convective non-Newtonian material is reported in this communication. Aspects of thermal radiation and heat source are taken into account for heat…

Second law analysis on Hall effect of natural convection flow through vertical channel in the presence of uniform heat source/sink

A. Roja, B.J. Gireesha

Microfluidics is one of the extensive elaborated technologies in thermal and engineering fields due to its wide range of applications, such as micro heat exchangers, micro mixture…

Stator–rotor interaction in the tip leakage flow of an inlet vaned low-speed axial fan

Adrián Vazquez Gonzalez, Andrés Meana-Fernández, Jesús Manuel Fernández

The purpose of the paper is to quantify the impact of the non-uniform flow generated by the upstream stator on the generation and convection of the tip leakage flow (TLF…

Analysis and application of a convergent difference scheme to nonlinear transport in a Brinkman flow

Chinedu Nwaigwe

The purpose of this paper is to formulate and analyse a convergent numerical scheme and apply it to investigate the coupled problem of fluid flow with heat and mass transfer in a…

Choice of the regularization parameter for the Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation

Magda Joachimiak

In this paper, the Cauchy-type problem for the Laplace equation was solved in the rectangular domain with the use of the Chebyshev polynomials. The purpose of this paper is to…

An asymptotic-numerical comparative study for axisymmetric free surface liquid jet near and far from exit at high Reynolds number

Yunpeng Wang, Roger E. Khayat

The purpose of this study is to examine theoretically the axisymmetric flow of a steady free-surface jet emerging from a tube for high inertia flow and moderate surface tension…

Appraising conjugate heat transfer, heatlines visualization and entropy generation of Ag-MgO/H2O hybrid nanofluid in a partitioned medium

Mokhtar Ferhi, Ridha Djebali

This paper aims to perform the lattice Boltzmann simulation of conjugate natural convection heat transfer, heat flow visualization via heatlines approach and entropy generation in…

An experimental/numerical hydrothermal analysis on natural convection and TiO2-SiO2/W-EG nanofluid’s properties in a hollow/finned cavity

Mahshid Zaresharif, Fatemeh Zarei, Ali Mohammad Ranjbar, Loke Kok Foong, David Ross

This paper aims to provide an experimental/numerical analysis of free convection within a hollow/finned cavity.

Non-axisymmetric Homann stagnation point flow and heat transfer past a stretching/shrinking sheet using hybrid nanofluid

Najiyah Safwa Khashi’ie, Norihan Md Arifin, Ioan Pop, Roslinda Nazar, Ezad Hafidz Hafidzuddin, Nadihah Wahi

This paper aims to scrutinize the analysis of non-axisymmetric Homann stagnation point flow and heat transfer of hybrid Cu-Al₂O₃/water nanofluid over a stretching/shrinking flat…

A new improved generalized decomposition method (improved-GDM) for hydromagnetic boundary layer flow

Sihem Gherieb, Mohamed Kezzar, Abdelaziz Nehal, Mohamed Rafik Sari

The purpose of this study is to investigate the magneto-hydrodynamics boundary layer Falkner–Skan flow over a flat plate numerically by using the Runge–Kutta method featuring…

Natural convection from cross blade inside a nanofluid-filled cavity using ISPH method

Zehba A.S. Raizah

The purpose of this study is to apply the incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics method for simulating the natural convection flow inside a cavity including cross blades…

Numerical study on convective flow and heat transfer in 3D inclined enclosure with hot solid body and discrete cooling

Ali S. Alshomrani, S. Sivasankaran, Amer Abdulfattah Ahmed

This study aims to deal the numerical simulation on buoyant convection and energy transport in an inclined cubic box with diverse locations of the heater and coolers.

Finite element (GFEM) simulations on the effect of microwave heating for lossy dielectric samples with various shapes (circle, square and triangle)

Tanmay Basak

This paper aims to investigate the thermal performance involving larger heating rate, targeted heating, heating with least non-uniformity of the spatial distribution of…