International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 16 Issue 3

Runge‐Kutta based calculation of turbulent forced convection flows of metallic liquids through tubes

Antonio Campo, Bernardo Hernández‐Morales, Ulises Lacoa

To provide a suitable linkage of a computational fluid dynamics code and a shape optimization code for the augmentation of local heat transfer coefficients in forced convection…

Heat transfer enhancement in turbulent tube flow using Al2O3 nanoparticle suspension

Sidi El Bécaye Maïga, Cong Tam Nguyen, Nicolas Galanis, Gilles Roy, Thierry Maré, Mickaël Coqueux

To study the hydrodynamic and thermal behaviors of a turbulent flow of nanofluids, which are composed of saturated water and Al₂O₃ nanoparticles at various concentrations, flowing…

Numerical calculation of fully developed laminar flow in irregular annuli

O.M. Haddad, M.Q. Al‐Odat

This study seeks to focus on the annular flow between rectangular and equilateral‐triangular ducts under all possible arrangements. The aim of this work is to obtain accurate…

Numerical analysis of natural convection in parallel, convergent, and divergent open‐ended channels

Francisco Marcondes, Vinícius de Souza Melo, Jose Maurício Gurgel

To investigate the natural convection in open‐ended parallel, convergent, and divergent channels using a fully elliptic procedure without extending the domain outside the channel…

Finite element analysis for co‐current and counter‐current parallel flow three‐fluid heat exchanger

Nawaf H. Saeid, K.N. Seetharamu

To study the thermal performance of both co‐current and counter‐current parallel flow heat exchangers. The hot stream is assumed to flow in the middle of two cold streams and…

Relationship between thermal convection intensity and aspect ratio of two triangular cavities inscribed in horizontal rectangular cavities

El Hassan Ridouane, Antonio Campo

Sets out to discuss laminar free convection characteristics of air confined to a square cavity and a horizontal rectangular cavity (aspect ratio A=2) along with the viable…

An FE‐based sequential inverse algorithm for heat flux calculation during impingement water cooling

Mohamed S. Gadala, Fuchang Xu

To develop an effective and reliable procedure for the calculation of heat fluxes from the measured temperatures in experimental tests of impingement water cooling.