International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 30 Issue 5
Table of contents - Special Issue: Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Processes
Guest Editors: Karol Kaczmarski
Numerical model of the steam pipeline with thermal insulation
Karol KaczmarskiThe purpose of this paper is to develop a numerical model of a steam pipeline connecting a boiler with a turbine, with an insulated outer surface. The temperature distribution…
Heat flow model based on lattice Boltzmann method for modeling of heat transfer during phase transformation
Łukasz Łach, Dmytro Svyetlichnyy, Robert StrakaA fundamental principle of materials engineering is that the microstructure of a material controls the properties. The phase transformation is an important phenomenon that…
Numerical optimization of obstructed high temperature heat exchanger for recovery from the flue gases by considering ash fouling characteristics
Ali Akbar Abbasian Arani, Ali Arefmanesh, Hamidreza EhteramThe purpose of this paper is to recommend a validated numerical model for simulation the flue gases heat recovery recuperators. Due to fulfill of this demand, the influences of…
Brownian models effect on turbulent fluid flow and heat transfer and entropy generation of water/boehmite alumina nanofluid inside enclosure
Behrouz Mozafari, Ali Akbar Abbasian Arani, Ghanbar Ali Sheikhzadeh, Mahmoud SalimiThe purpose of this paper is to study the effects of using different Brownian models on natural and mixed convection fluid flow and heat transfer inside the square enclosure…
Simulation of water/FMWCNT nanofluid forced convection in a microchannel filled with porous material under slip velocity and temperature jump boundary conditions
Ehsan Gholamalizadeh, Farzad Pahlevanzadeh, Kamal Ghani, Arash Karimipour, Truong Khang Nguyen, Mohammad Reza SafaeiThis study aims to numerically study the forced convection effects on a two-dimensional microchannel filled with a porous material containing the water/FMWCNT nanofluid. The upper…
A boundary determination problem in steady-state heat conduction – a solution and sensitivity analysis
Leszek HożejowskiThe purpose of this paper is to propose a numerical procedure for discrete identification of the missing part of the domain boundary in a heat conduction problem. A new approach…
Numerical study of crystal growth kinetics influence on prediction of different dendritic zones and macro-segregation in binary alloy solidification
Mirosław Seredyński, Jerzy BanaszekProper selection of the stability parameter determines the accuracy of dendrite tip kinetics at a single crystal scale. Recently developed sophisticated phase field modelling of a…
Heating of the cathode with a conical tip by atmospheric-pressure arc plasma
Meng-Ran Liao, Tang Chen, Wei-Jian LvIn this study, the authors performed a numerical investigation on the heating of a hot cathode with a conical tip by atmospheric arc, taking into account of the two temperature…
Numerical simulation of flow with large eddy simulation at Re = 3900: A study on the accuracy of statistical quantities
Niaz B. Khan, Zainah B. Ibrahim, Mian Ashfaq Ali, Mohammed Jameel, Muhammad Ijaz Khan, Ahad Javanmardi, D.O. OyejobiOver the past few decades, the flow around circular cylinders has been one of the highly researched topics in the field of offshore engineering and fluid-structure interaction…
A multi-factor methodology for evaluation and optimization of plate-fin recuperators for micro gas turbine applications considering payback period as universal objective function
Peyman Maghsoudi, Sadegh Sadeghi, Qingang Xiong, Saiied Mostafa AminossadatiBecause of the appreciable application of heat recovery systems for the increment of overall efficiency of micro gas turbines, promising evaluation and optimization are crucial…
Numerical investigation of the effect of water/Al2O3 nanofluid on heat transfer in trapezoidal, sinusoidal and stepped microchannels
Vahid Jaferian, Davood Toghraie, Farzad Pourfattah, Omid Ali Akbari, Pouyan TalebizadehsardariThe purpose of this study is three-dimensional flow and heat transfer investigation of water/Al2O3 nanofluid inside a microchannel with different cross-sections in two-phase mode.
Variable diffusion and conductivity change in 3D rotating Williamson fluid flow along with magnetic field and activation energy
Mair Khan, T. Salahuddin, Muhammad Malik Yousaf, Farzana Khan, Arif HussainThe purpose of the current flow configurations is to bring to attention the thermophysical aspects of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Williamson nanofluid flow under the effects of…
A new method of black-box fuzzy system identification optimized by genetic algorithm and its application to predict mixture thermal properties
Wei He, Seyed Amin Bagherzadeh, Mohsen Tahmasebi, Ali Abdollahi, Mehrdad Bahrami, Rasoul Moradi, Arash Karimipour, Marjan Goodarzi, Quang-Vu BachThis paper aims to present a black-box fuzzy system identification method coupled with genetic algorithm optimization approach to predict the mixture thermal conductivity at…
Magneto-hydrodynamics of a solid-liquid two-phase fluid in rotating channel due to peristaltic wavy movement
Sajjad Haider, Nouman Ijaz, A. Zeeshan, Yun-Zhang LiNumerous researchers have probed the peristaltic flows because of their immense usage in industrial engineering, biomedical engineering and biological sciences. However, the…
Application of different numerical models capable to simulate combustion of alternative fuels in internal combustion engine
Wojciech Piotr Adamczyk, Grzegorz Kruczek, Ryszard Bialecki, Grzegorz PrzybyłaThe internal combustion engine operated on gaseous fuels shows great potential in terms of integration of the renewable and traditional sources for an effective solution for clean…
Simulation of cavitation of spherically shaped hydrogen bubbles through a tube nozzle with stenosis
Rahmat Ellahi, Ahmad Zeeshan, Farooq Hussain, Mohammad Reza SafaeiThe purpose of this study is to investigate the monodisperse cavitation of bubbly mixture flow for water and hydrogen mixture flows through a nozzle having a stenosis on the wall.
Analysis of coal suspensions evolution during combustion process
Agnieszka Kijo-KleczkowskaThe paper aims to undertake coal–water suspension combustion, in air and in fluidised bed conditions. Fluidised bed conditions are the best to efficiently and ecologically use…
Influence of inclined Lorentz forces through a porous media on squeezing Cu-H2o nanofluid in the presence of heat source/sink
Seyedmohammad Mousavisani, Javad Khalesi, Hossein Golbaharan, Mohammad Sepehr, D.D. GanjiThe purpose of this paper is to find the approximate solutions of unsteady squeezing nanofluid flow and heat transfer between two parallel plates in the presence of variable heat…
3D optimization of baffle arrangement in a multi-phase nanofluid natural convection based on numerical simulation
Mohammad Mohsen Peiravi, Javad Alinejad, D.D. Ganji, Soroush MaddahThe purpose of this study is investigating the effect of using multi-phase nanofluids, Rayleigh number and baffle arrangement simultaneously on the heat transfer rate and Predict…
Laminar natural convection from a vertical array of horizontal heated cylinders inside a water-filled rectangular enclosure cooled at sides
Marta Cianfrini, Massimo Corcione, Alessandro Quintino, Vincenzo Andrea SpenaThe purpose of this study is to investigate numerically the laminar natural convection from a pair of horizontal heated cylinders, set one above the other, inside a water-filled…
Numerical study of natural convection of nanofluid in a semi-circular cavity with lattice Boltzmann method
Hanieh Nazarafkan, Babak Mehmandoust, Davood Toghraie, Arash KarimipourThis study aims to apply the lattice Boltzmann method to investigate the natural convection flows utilizing nanofluids in a semicircular cavity. The fluid in the cavity is a…
A numerical simulation of a line-type paint drying furnace
Jongrak Choi, Giyeob Yang, Nahmkeon HurPaint drying is a very important process in an industry where shorter drying time for productivity and lower energy consumption for production cost are required while maintaining…
Application of numerical procedure for thermal diagnostics of the delamination of strengthening material at concrete construction
Wojciech Piotr Adamczyk, Marcin Gorski, Ziemowit Ostrowski, Ryszard Bialecki, Grzegorz Kruczek, Grzegorz Przybyła, Rafal Krzywon, Rafal BialozorLarge structural objects, primarily concrete bridges, can be reinforced by gluing to their stretched surface tapes of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP). The condition for this…
The porous media theory applied to radiofrequency catheter ablation
Marcello Iasiello, Assunta Andreozzi, Nicola Bianco, Kambiz VafaiRecently, the porous media theory has been successively proposed for many bioengineering applications. The purpose of this paper is to analyze if the porous media theory can be…
Effects of magnetic field on micro cross jet injection of dispersed nanoparticles in a microchannel
Seyed Amin Bagherzadeh, Esmaeil Jalali, Mohammad Mohsen Sarafraz, Omid Ali Akbari, Arash Karimipour, Marjan Goodarzi, Quang-Vu BachWater/Al2O3 nanofluid with volume fractions of 0, 0.3 and 0.06 was investigated inside a rectangular microchannel. Jet injection of nanofluid was used to enhance the heat transfer…
Experimental and numerical investigations of choked air flow and heat transfer in a ball valve for optimization the cross-sectional area
Davood Toghraie, Hojjatollah Heidari KhouzaniThe purpose of this study is to understand the functional properties of ball valve in a compressible flow and simulation of experimental data collection of ball valve, was…
Eulerian–Eulerian multi-phase RPI modeling of turbulent forced convective of boiling flow inside the tube with porous medium
Reza Azadbakhti, Farzad Pourfattah, Abolfazl Ahmadi, Omid Ali Akbari, Davood ToghraieThe purpose of this study is simulation the flow boiling inside a tube in the turbulent flow regime for investigating the effect of using a porous medium in the boiling procedure.
Lattice Boltzmann modeling of convective flows in a large-scale cavity heated from below by two imposed temperature profiles
Noureddine Abouricha, Mustapha El Alami, Khalid SouharThe purpose of this paper is to model the convective flows in a room equipped by a glass door and a heated floor of length l = 0.8 × H and submitted to a sinusoidal temperature…
Numerical simulation of water/alumina nanofluid mixed convection in square lid-driven cavity: Effect of magnetic field using a two-phase model
Davood Toghraie, Ehsan ShiraniThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the mixed convection of a two-phase water–aluminum oxide nanofluid in a cavity under a uniform magnetic field.
Impact of nano-particles shapes on Al2O3-water nano-fluid flow due to a stretching cylinder
Sajjad Haider, Adnan Saeed Butt, Imran Syed Muhammad, Asif Ali, Yun-Zhang Li, Syed Muhammad Ali Naqvi, Muhammad Adnan QaiserThe purpose of this study is to theoretically probe the shape impacts of nano-particle on boundary layer flow of nano-fluid toward a stretching cylinder with heat-transmission…
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