International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 30 Issue 6
Table of contents - Special Issue: Numerical simulation of heat transfer and fluid flow processes
Guest Editors: Andrew S. Rees, Ioan Pop, Dawid Taler
Analysis of polymeric materials properties changes after addition of reinforcing fibers
Adam Gnatowski, Agnieszka Kijo-Kleczkowska, Rafał Gołębski, Kamil MirekThe issues concerning the prediction of changes in properties of polymer materials as a result of adding reinforcing fibers are currently widely discussed in the field of polymer…
Introduce a novel configurationof microchannel andhigh-conductivity insertsfor cooling of disc-shaped electronic components
Reza Dadsetani, Ghanbar Ali Sheikhzadeh, Mohammad Reza Hajmohammadi, Mohammad Reza SafaeiElectronic components’ efficiency is the cornerstone of technology progress. The cooling process used for electronic components plays a main role in their performance. Embedded…
Thermohydraulics of the liquid films in rotating heat pipes
Kamel Hooman, Mohammad Reza Safaei, Hussein Togun, Mahidzal DahariIn this study, closed-form solutions are presented to investigate thermohydraulics of liquid films in a rotating heat pipe. The film thickness is expressed as a function of flow…
Providing a model for Csf according to pool boiling convection heat transfer of water/ferrous oxide nanofluid using sensitivity analysis
Mohammad Reza Salimpour, Mohammad Hossein Karimi Darvanjooghi, Ali Abdollahi, Arash Karimipour, Marjan GoodarziA boiling surface with different initial roughness and under various nanoparticles volume fractions was studied in present work.
Fluid–structure interaction of free convection in a square cavity divided by a flexible membrane and subjected to sinusoidal temperature heating
Mohammad Ghalambaz, S.A.M. Mehryan, Muneer A. Ismael, Ali Chamkha, D. WenThe purpose of the present paper is to model a cavity, which is equally divided vertically by a thin, flexible membrane. The membranes are inevitable components of many…
Numerical simulation of the effect of using nanofluid in phase change process of cooling fluid
Farzad Pourfattah, Saeid Yousefi, Omid Ali Akbari, Mahsa Adhampour, Davood Toghraie, Maboud HekmatifarThe purpose of this paper is to numerically simulate the nanofluid boiling inside a tube in turbulent flow regime and to investigate the effect of adding volume faction of CuO…
Experimental and numerical analysis of heat transfer in the helically coiled heat exchanger
Tomasz SobotaThe knowledge of the heat transfer coefficient is important for the proper design of heat exchangers as well as for the determination of the working medium outlet temperatures…
Time-dependent study of boiling heat transfer coefficient in a vertical minichannel
Beata Maciejewska, Magdalena PiaseckaThe purpose of this paper is to determine the time-dependent heat transfer coefficient during FC-72 flow boiling in a 1.7-mm-deep vertical and asymmetrically heated minichannel.
Numerical study of plume emission from an elevated line source in a wall-bounded flow
Asghar Noormohammadi, Bing-Chen WangThis paper aims to study turbulent dispersion of a passive plume emitting from a single elevated line source of different elevations in a plane channel flow by using direct…
Optimization of the heat flow by solving inverse problem in the protective layer of the TPS panel
Łukasz Brodzik, Andrzej FrąckowiakThis paper aims to present the problem of heating the damaged insulation of an orbiter.
The numerical modeling of cell freezing in binary solution under subcooling conditions
Przemysław Smakulski, Sławomir Pietrowicz, Jun IshimotoThis paper aims to describe and investigate the mathematical models and numerical modeling of how a cell membrane is affected by a transient ice freezing front combined with the…
Baffle orientation and geometry effects on turbulent heat transfer of a constant property incompressible fluid flow inside a rectangular channel
Younes Menni, A. Chamkha, Chafika Zidani, Boumédiène BenyoucefA computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis has been carried out on the aerodynamic and thermal behavior of an incompressible Newtonian fluid having a constant property and…
Permeability determination in tight rock sample using novel method based on partial slip modelling and X-ray tomography data
Paweł Madejski, Paulina Krakowska, Edyta Puskarczyk, Magdalena Habrat, Mariusz JędrychowskiThe purpose of the paper was the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques in fluid flow using Maxwell’s equation for partial slip modelling, estimating the…
Nonlinear analysis of convective-radiative longitudinal fin of various profiles
Prashant Dineshbhai Vyas, Harish C. Thakur, Veera P. DarjiThis paper aims to study nonlinear heat transfer through a longitudinal fin of three different profiles.
Numerical identification of temperature dependent thermal conductivity using least squares method
Anna Ivanova, Stanislaw Migorski, Rafal Wyczolkowski, Dmitry IvanovThis paper aims to considered the problem of identification of temperature-dependent thermal conductivity in the nonstationary, nonlinear heat equation. To describe the heat…
A multiscale algorithm for the mineralization process during supercritical carbon dioxide injection into a deep saline aquifer
Luiz Umberto Rodrigues SicaIn this work, it is presented a locally conservative multiscale algorithm accounting the mineralization process during the supercritical carbon dioxide injection into a deep…
Homotopy perturbation method for peristaltic motion of gold-blood nanofluid with heat source
Abdelhalim Ebaid, Abdulrahman F. Aljohani, Emad H. AlyThis paper aims to investigate the impacts of the gold nanoparticles on the peristaltic flow and heat transfer of blood in the presence of heat source. This element has been…
Comparison of the experimental and numerical analyses of silver nanofluid under influence of strong magnetic field
Elzbieta Fornalik-Wajs, Aleksandra Roszko, Janusz Donizak, Anna KraszewskaNanofluids’ properties made them interesting for various areas like engineering, medicine or cosmetology. Discussed here, research pertains to specific problem of heat transfer…
Buoyancy-induced convection from a pair of heated and cooled horizontal circular cylinders inside an adiabatic tilted cavity filled with alumina/water nanofluids
Massimo Corcione, Emanuele Habib, Alessandro Quintino, Elisa Ricci, Vincenzo Andrea SpenaThis paper aims to investigate numerically buoyancy-induced convection from a pair of differentially heated horizontal circular cylinders set side by side in a nanofluid-filled…
Effect of absorber plate surface shape and glass cover inclination angle on the performance of a passive solar still
Hamid Reza Goshayeshi, Mohammad Reza SafaeiSolar-driven water desalination technologies are rapidly developing with various links to other renewable sources. However, the efficiency of such systems severely depends on the…
Unsteady CHT analysis of a solid state, sensible heat storage for PHES system
Bartosz Ziegler, Jędrzej Mosiężny, Paweł CzyżewskiThe aim of this study is to identify key factors limiting efficiency of pumped heat energy storage systems and determine some general features of transient behavior of solid…
Modeling of combustion of moving porous magnesium particle considering variable particle size: A numerical study and artificial neural network modeling
Peyman Maghsoudi, Mehdi BidabadiThe purpose of this study is to describe the combustion of a magnesium particle falling into a hot oxidizer medium.
Trefftz method in solving the pennes’ and single-phase-lag heat conduction problems with perfusion in the skin
Krzysztof Grysa, Artur MaciagThe purpose of this paper is to derive the Trefftz functions (T-functions) for the Pennes’ equation and for the single-phase-lag (SPL) model (hyperbolic equation) with perfusion…
Forced convection in a double tube heat exchanger using nanofluids with constant and variable thermophysical properties
Mohammad Hussein Bahmani, Omid Ali Akbari, Majid Zarringhalam, Gholamreza Ahmadi Sheikh Shabani, Marjan GoodarziThis paper aims to study forced convection in a double tube heat exchanger using nanofluids with constant and variable thermophysical properties.
Nonlinear function estimation fuzzy system (NFEFS) as a novel statistical approach to estimate nanofluids’ thermal conductivity according to empirical data
Zhe Tian, Seyed Amin Bagherzadeh, Kamal Ghani, Arash Karimipour, Ali Abdollahi, Mehrdad Bahrami, Mohammad Reza SafaeiThis paper aims to propose a new nonlinear function estimation fuzzy system as a novel statistical approach to estimate nanofluids’ thermal conductivity.
Laminar entry region mixed convection heat transfer from an inclined rectangular fin array
Krishna Roy, Asis Giri, Biplab DasThe paper aims to investigate the influence of the angle of inclination on mixed convection heat transfer from rectangular plated shrouded fin array computationally. This study…
CFD-based blade shape optimization of MGT-70(3)axial flow compressor
Mohammad Reza Pakatchian, Hossein Saeidi, Alireza ZiamolkiThis study aims at enhancing the performance of a 16-stage axial compressor and improving the operating stability. The adopted approaches for upgrading the compressor are…
Optimum arrangement of two-stage plug and concentrate recycling RO systems using thermodynamic and exergy analysis
Abbas Naeimi, Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi, Milad Sadeghzadeh, Alibakhsh KasaeianThis paper aims to determine the optimum arrangement of a reverse osmosis system in two methods of plug and concentrate recycling.
Numerical modeling of aeroacoustic characteristics of different savonius blade profiles
Seyed Hamid Delbari, Amir Nejat, Mohammad H. Ahmadi, Ali Khaleghi, Marjan GoodarziThis study aims to carry out numerical modeling to predict aerodynamic noise radiation from four different Savonius rotor blade profile.
Lattice Boltzmann method to simulate convection heat transfer in a microchannel under heat flux: Gravity and inclination angle on slip-velocity
Masoud Mozaffari, Annunziata D’Orazio, Arash Karimipour, Ali Abdollahi, Mohammad Reza SafaeiThe purpose of this paper is to improve the lattice Boltzmann method’s ability to simulate a microflow under constant heat flux.
Optimization of four models flatbread bakery machines in Iran: An experimental investigation aided by energy and exergy analysis
Soroush Sadripour, Mohammad Estajloo, Seyed Abdolmehdi Hashemi, Ali J. Chamkha, Mahmoud AbbaszadehThe purpose of this study is to reduce energy consumption in bakeries. Due to fulfill this demand, quite a few parameters such as energy and exergy efficiency, energy waste and…
Investigation of viscous fluid flow and dynamic stability of CNTs subjected to axial harmonic load coupled using Bolotin’s method
Mohammad Hashemian, Amir Homayoun Vaez, Davood ToghraieThe dynamic stability of nano-tubes is an important issue in engineering applications. Dynamic stability of anti-symmetric coupled-carbon nanotubes (C-CNTs)-systems in thermal…
Analysis of dusty Casson fluid flow past a permeable stretching sheet bearing power law temperature and magnetic field
Jafar Hasnain, Zaheer Abbas, Mariam Sheikh, Shaban AlyThis study aims to present an analysis on heat transfer attributes of fluid-particle interaction over a permeable elastic sheet. The fluid streaming on the sheet is Casson fluid…
Application of generalized Fourier heat conduction law on MHD viscoinelastic fluid flow over stretching surface
Arif Hussain, Muhammad Yousaf Malik, Mair Khan, Taimoor SalahuddinThe purpose of current flow configuration is to spotlights the thermophysical aspects of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) viscoinelastic fluid flow over a stretching surface.
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