International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 19 Issue 1

Evaluation of confined natural and forced convection predictions by different turbulence models

Mohamed Omri, Nicolas Galanis

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the capacity of two equation turbulence models to reproduce mean and fluctuating quantities in the case of both natural convection and…

A coupled dual reciprocity BEM/genetic algorithm for identification of blood perfusion parameters

Paul W. Partridge, Luiz C. Wrobel

The purpose of this paper is to present an inverse analysis procedure based on a coupled numerical formulation through which the coefficients describing non‐linear thermal…

Computational study of heat transfer in a conjugate turbulent wall jet flow with constant heat flux

E. Vishnuvardhanarao, Manab Kumar Das

The purpose of this paper is to consider the conjugate heat transfer from a flat plate involving a turbulent plane wall jet. The bottom wall of the solid block is heated by a…

Reconstruction of an unsteady flow from incomplete boundary data: Part I. Theory

B. Tomas Johansson

To propose and investigate a stable numerical procedure for the reconstruction of the velocity of a viscous incompressible fluid flow in linear hydrodynamics from knowledge of the…

Tissue fluids in microchannel subjected to an externally applied electric potential

Vincent C. Huang, Tony W.H. Sheu

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of an electroosmotic dynamic model to simulate the transport phenomena in association with the electric therapy in modern…

Effects of varying viscosity and thermal conductivity on steady MHD free convective flow and heat transfer along an isothermal plate with internal heat generation

P.R. Sharma, Gurminder Singh

Physical properties of a viscous fluid, e.g. viscosity and thermal conductivity change with temperature and in most of the studies concerned with natural convection, generally…

Effect of computational grid in industrial‐scale boiler modeling

A. Saario, A. Oksanen

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of a computational grid in computational fluid dynamics‐based mathematical modeling, focusing on but not limiting the attention to…