International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 30 Issue 4
Table of contents - Special Issue: Numerical simulation of heat transfer and fluid flow processes
Guest Editors: Andrew S. Rees, Ioan Pop, David Taler
Selected physical properties and structure of materials based on modified polyamide 6
Adam Gnatowski, Agnieszka Kijo-KleczkowskaThe main purpose of polymeric mixtures manufacturing is wish to eliminate or reduce drawbacks which polymers are characterised by and also to strive for reduction of the price of…
Numerical study of unsteady boundary layer flow and heat transmission of a nano-fluid past a continuously stretching sheet immersed in porous media
Sajjad Haider, Imran Syed Muhammad, Yun-Zhang Li, Adnan Saeed ButtThis paper aims to incorporate a numerical investigation of unsteady flow of nano-fluid near the boundary wall and heat transmission over a flat sheet in porous media under the…
Investigation of heat transfer and fluid flow behaviors of CuO/(60:40)% ethylene glycol and water nanofluid through a serpentine milichannel heat exchanger
Davood Toghraie, Maboud Hekmatifar, Niyusha Adavoodi JolfaeiThis paper aims to investigate the three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulations, based on the Navier–Stokes equations and the energy equation. Forced convection of a mixture of…
MHD mixed convection of nanofluid in a three-dimensional vented cavity with surface corrugation and inner rotating cylinder
Fatih Selimefendigil, Ali J. ChamkhaThis study aims to numerically examine mixed convection of CuO-water nanofluid in a three-dimensional (3D) vented cavity with inlet and outlet ports under the influence of an…
Modeling of combustion and hydrodynamics for a coal-fired supercritical boiler with double-reheat cycle
Tang Chen, Wei-zong WangThe design and retrofit of the heat exchangers in a boiler should take into account the processes occurring on the side of combustion and steam. For this reason, this study aims…
Numerical investigations on particle separation in dynamic separators
Arun Appadurai, Vasudevan RaghavanDynamic separator is an equipment having a rotor and static vanes and is used to separate solids from gas-solids flow based on size. Particle separation in a dynamic separator…
Numerical investigation of nonlinear vibration analysis for triple-walled carbon nanotubes conveying viscous fluid
Bijan Mohamadi, S. Ali Eftekhari, Davood ToghraieThe purpose of this paper is to investigate nonlinear vibrations of triple-walled carbon nanotubes buried within Pasternak foundation carrying viscous fluids.
Determination of heat transfer coefficient in a T-shaped cavity by means of solving the inverse heat conduction problem
Andrzej Frąckowiak, David Spura, Uwe Gampe, Michał CiałkowskiT-shaped cavities occur by design in many technical applications. An example of such a stator cavity is the side space between the guide vane carriers and the outer casing of a…
Modified algebraic model of laminar-turbulent transition for internal flows
Konrad Nering, Kazimierz RupFor internal flows with small values of the Reynolds number, there is often at a considerable distance from the pipe inlet cross-section a change of the flow form from laminar to…
Role of magnetic field on forced convection of nanofluid in a branching channel
Fatih Selimefendigil, Hakan F. Öztop, Ali J. ChamkhaNumerical study of nanofluid forced convection within a branching channel was performed under the influence of a uniform magnetic field. The purpose of this study is to enhance…
Instabilities of SWCNT conveying laminar, incompressible and viscous fluid flow: Effects of Knudsen number, the Winkler, the Pasternak elastic and the viscoelastic medium
Soheil Oveissi, Davood Toghraie, S. Ali Eftekhari, Ali J. ChamkhaThis study aims to study the transverse vibration and instabilities of the fluid-conveying single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs). To this purpose, the Euler–Bernoulli beam model…
Two-phase investigation of water-Al2O3 nanofluid in a micro concentric annulus under non-uniform heat flux boundary conditions
Davood Toghraie, Ramin Mashayekhi, Hossein Arasteh, Salman Sheykhi, Mohammadreza Niknejadi, Ali J. ChamkhaThis is a 3D numerical study of convective heat transfer through a micro concentric annulus governing non-uniform heat flux boundary conditions employing water-Al2O3 nanofluid…
Development of hybrid method for coupled conduction-radiation heat transfer in two-dimensional irregular enclosure considering thermo-radiative effects and varying thermal conductivity
Mehdi Zare, Sadegh SadeghiThis study aims to perform a comprehensive investigation to model the thermal characteristics of a coupled conduction-radiation heat transfer in a two-dimensional irregular…
Entropy generation in radiative flow of Ree-Eyring fluid due to due rotating disks
Muhammad Ijaz Khan, Sohail Ahmad Khan, Tasawar Hayat, Muhammad Faisal Javed, Muhammad WaqasThis paper aims to address the flow features of Ree–Eyring fluid between two rotating disks subject to the magnetic field. Heat transfer features are discussed through viscous…
Exploration of particle shape effect on Cu-H2O nanoparticles over a moving plate: An approach of dual solution
Ganesh Kumar K., Chamkha Ali J., Prasannakumara B.C., Jyothi A.M.This paper aims to explore particle shape effect on Cu-H2O nanoparticles over a moving plate in the presence of nonlinear thermal radiation. To characterize the effect, particle…
Numerical investigation of natural convection in an inclined porous enclosure using non-Darcian flow model
Ibrahim Atiya MohamedA thoroughly literature review reveals that considerable attention have been given only to the two common cases, i.e. enclosure heated from below and heated from the side. For the…
Double stratified stagnation-point flow of Williamson nanomaterial with entropy generation through a porous medium
Muhammad Ijaz Khan, M.Z. Kiyani, Tasawar Hayat, Muhammad Faisal Javed, I. AhmadThis paper aims to address double-stratified stagnation-point flow of Williamson nanomaterial with entropy generation. Flow through porous medium is discussed. Energy equation is…
Computational investigation of laminar premixed hydrogen flame past a quenching mesh
Ali Cemal Benim, Björn PfeiffelmannThe purpose of this study is the computational analysis of atmospheric, laminar, stoichiometric and premixed hydrogen-air flames in the presence of a quenching mesh. The…
Two-phase modeling of nanofluid forced convection in different arrangements of elliptical tube banks
Seyed Mohammad Mousavi, Omid Ali Akbari, Ghanbarali Sheikhzadeh, Ali Marzban, Davood Toghraie, Ali J. ChamkhaThe purpose of this study is two phase modeling of Water/Cu nanofluid forced convection in different arrangements of elliptical tube banks in a two-dimensional space.
Transient numerical investigation of a large-scale hydro-pneumatic suspension considering variations in check valve parameters and operational conditions
Sha Zhang, Zhengqi Gu, Wenguang Wu, Ledian Zheng, Jun Liu, Shanbin YinThe purpose of this paper is to develop a numerical model used for calculating the nonlinearities of large-scale hydro-pneumatic suspension (HPS) and investigating the effects of…
Exploration of flow and heat transfer of non-Newtonian nanofluid over a stretching sheet by considering slip factor
K. Ganesh KumarHere, the present paper characteristics flow and heat transfer of non-Newtonian nanofluid over a stretching sheet. Energy expression is modeled subject to slip factor phenomenon…
An adaptive inner iterative pressure-based algorithm for steady and unsteady incompressible flows
Jin-Ping Wang, Jian-Fei Zhang, Zhi-Guo Qu, Wen-Quan TaoPressure-based methods have been demonstrated to be powerful for solving many practical problems in engineering. In many pressure-based methods, inner iterative processes are…
Energy saving with using of elliptic pillows in turbulent flow of two-phase water-silver nanofluid in a spiral heat exchanger
Erfan Khodabandeh, Davood Toghraie, A. Chamkha, Ramin Mashayekhi, Omidali Akbari, Seyed Alireza RozatiIncreasing heat transfer rate in spiral heat exchangers is possible by using conventional methods such as increasing number of fluid passes and counter flowing. In addition, newer…
Scrutinization of 3D flow and nonlinear radiative heat transfer of non-Newtonian nanoparticles over an exponentially sheet
Ganesh Kumar K.This paper aims to explore the consequence of chemical reaction on three-dimensional flow, heat and mass transfer of a Casson nano liquid over exponentially stretching surface. A…
Influence of duct parameters on the acoustic wave generation
Sebastian Rulik, Włodzimierz Wróblewski, Krzysztof Rusin, Krzysztof RogozińskiThis paper aims to determine the influence of geometrical features of the channel on the acoustic wave generation in a ducted cavity. The analysis is focussed on the effects of…
Effects of hydrogen relative humidity on the performance of an air-breathing PEM fuel cell: A numerical study
Zhenxiao Chen, Derek Ingham, Mohammed Ismail, Lin Ma, Kevin J. Hughes, Mohamed PourkashanianThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of hydrogen humidity on the performance of air-breathing proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells.
Numerical solutions of the second-order dual-phase-lag equation using the explicit and implicit schemes of the finite difference method
Ewa Majchrzak, Bohdan MochnackiThe purpose of this paper is the application of the finite difference method (FDM) for numerical modeling of the microscale heat transfer processes occurring in the domain of thin…
Effect of viscous dissipation in stokes flow between rotating cylinders using BEM
Tomasz Janusz TeleszewskiThe purpose of this paper is to apply the boundary element method (BEM) to Stokes flow between eccentric rotating cylinders, considering the case when viscous dissipation plays a…
An asymptotic analysis for detailed mathematical modeling of counter-flow non-premixed multi-zone laminar flames fueled by lycopodium particles
Mehdi Bidabadi, Sadegh Sadeghi, Pedram Panahifar, Davood Toghraie, Alireza RahbariThis study aims to present a basic mathematical model for investigating the structure of counter-flow non-premixed laminar flames propagating through uniformly-distributed organic…
Cooling of an isothermal surface having a cavity component by using CuO-water nano-jet
Fatih Selimefendigil, Ali J. ChamkhaThe purpose of this study is to numerically analyze the convective heat transfer features for cooling of an isothermal surface with a cavity-like portion by using CuO-water nano…
Simulation of revised nanofluid model in the stagnation region of cross fluid by expanding-contracting cylinder
Muhammad WaqasThis paper aims to address stagnation point flow of cross nanofluid in frames of hydromagnetics. Flow analysis subjected to expanding-contracting cylinder is studied.
Bifurcation phenomena of natural convection in horizontal annulus under self-induced circular magnetic fields
Jin Ho Oh, Il Seouk ParkIn general, the bifurcation phenomenon of the natural convection has largely been studied. But the bifurcation of natural convection under magnetic conditions has not been studied…
Effect of impeller diameter on Nusselt number in mechanically agitated vessel
Ansar Ali Sk, Pardeep Kumar, Sandeep KumarThe purpose of the study is to developed the effect of Nusselt number on impeller diameter in agitated vessel, which is beneficial to find out the heat transfer coefficient in the…
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