International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 31 Issue 11

Simulations of reactive supersonic/subsonic flow interactions for space launcher applications

Lorris Charrier, Mathieu Jubera, Grégoire Pont, Simon Marié, Pierre Brenner, Francesco Grasso

The design of a space launcher requires some considerations about the unsteady loads and heat transfer occurring at the base of the structure. In particular, these phenomena are…

Unsteady squeezing second order of nanofluid flow through an infinite channel

Taimoor Salahuddin, Ali Haider, Metib Alghamdi

The current investigation is communicated to analyze the characteristics of squeezed second grade nanofluid flow enclosed by infinite channel in the existence of both heat…

Theoretical analysis of entropy generation in second grade nanofluid considering heat source/sink over a rotating disk

Muhammad Faisal Javed, Mohammed Jameel, Muhammad Ijaz Khan, Sumaira Qayyum, Niaz B. Khan, Tufail Ahmad Khan

This study aims to focus on second grade fluid flow over a rotating disk in the presence of chemical reaction. Uniform magnetic field is also taken into account. Because of the…

Characteristics of generalized Fourier’s heat flux and homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions in 3D flow of non-Newtonian cross fluid

Mehboob Ali, F. Sultan, Waqar Azeem Khan, M. Shahzad, Hina Arif, M. Irfan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the heat transportation rate by using Cattaneo–Christov heat flux model. Furthermore, homogeneous-heterogeneous reaction is also…

Dual similarity solutions because of mixed convective flow of a double-nanoparticles hybrid nanofluid: critical points and stability analysis

Ioan Pop, Mohammadreza Nademi Rostami, Saeed Dinarvand

The purpose of this article is to study the steady laminar magnetohydrodynamics mixed convection stagnation-point flow of an alumina-graphene/water hybrid nanofluid with spherical…

Numerical heat transfer in annular fins of curved profile formed with the intersection of two equal circles

Diego Celentano, Antonio Campo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the heat transfer attributes of annular fins with quarter circle profile in terms of the Biot number Bi and the radius ratio r_r. The…

Numerical and experimental analysis of performance in a compact plate heat exchanger using graphene oxide/water nanofluid

Shiva Singh, Piyush Verma, Subrata Kumar Ghosh

This study aims to present the experimental and computational performance analysis in compact plate heat exchanger (PHE) using graphene oxide nanofluids at different…

Unsteady stagnation-point flow of upper-convected Oldroyd-B nanofluid with variable thermal conductivity and relaxation-retardation double-diffusion model

Yu Bai, Qing Wang, Yan Zhang

This paper aims to examine the unsteady stagnation-point flow, heat and mass transfer of upper-convected Oldroyd-B nanofluid along a stretching sheet. The thermal conductivity is…

Investigation of magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid flow contain motile oxytactic microorganisms over rotating cone

Amir Reza Mogharrebi, Ali Reza D. Ganji, Khashayar Hosseinzadeh, So Roghani, Armin Asadi, Amin Fazlollahtabar

The purpose of the study is to indicate a three-dimensional convective heat transfer properties evaluation of magnetohydrodynamics nanofluid flow, comprising motile oxytactic…

Thermosolutal convection of a nanofluid in ∧-shaped cavity saturated by a porous medium

Abdelraheem M. Aly, Zehba Raizah

The purpose of this study is to simulate the thermo-solutal convection resulting from a circular cylinder hanging in a rod inside a ∧-shaped cavity.

Calculation and analysis of thermal flow field in hydrodynamic torque converter with a new developed stress-blended eddy simulation

Konghua Yang, Chunbao Liu, Jing Li, Jiawei Xiong

The flow phenomenon of particle image velocimetry has revealed the transition process of the complex multi-scale vortex between the boundary layer and mainstream region…

Magnetohydrodynamic bioconvection of oxytactic microorganisms in porous media saturated with Cu–water nanofluid

Nirmalendu Biswas, Nirmal K. Manna, Dipak Kumar Mandal, Rama Subba Reddy Gorla

The purpose of this study is to address magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) bioconvection caused by the swimming of oxytactic microorganisms in a linearly heated square cavity filled with…

The homotopy perturbation method for fractional differential equations: part 1 Mohand transform

Muhammad Nadeem, Ji-Huan He, Asad Islam

This study aims that very lately, Mohand transform is introduced to solve the ordinary and partial differential equations (PDEs). In this paper, the authors modify this…