International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 26 Issue 8

Aerodynamics in the open channel of the Sistan-type wind-mill with vertical axis wind turbine

Abderrahmane Baïri, David San Martin, Iken Baïri, Kemi Adeyeye, Kaiming She, Ali Hocine, Nacim Alilat, Cyril Lamriben, Jean-Gabriel Bauzin, Bruno Chanetz, Najib Laraqi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the details of the air mass flow and aerodynamical phenomena across a channel containing a large vertical axis wind turbine. The considered…

Magnetohydrodynamic time-dependent computational natural convection flow, heat and mass transfer in inclined semi-circular enclosures

M.M. Rahman, Hakan F. Öztop, R. Saidur, A.G. Naim, Khaled S. Al-Salem, Talaat A. Ibrahim

The purpose of this paper is to make a numerical analysis on unsteady analysis of natural convection heat and mass transfer to obtain flow field, temperature distribution, and…

Symmetry reductions and rational non-traveling wave solutions for the (2+1)-D Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur equation

Xiao-rong Kang, Xian Daquan

The purpose of this paper is to find out some new rational non-traveling wave solutions and to study localized structures for (2+1)-dimensional Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur (AKNS…

Numerical simulation on sprue distributions during cladding casting process

Xing Han, Haitao Zhang, Bo Shao, Dongtao Wang, Longgang Cheng, Yadong Guo, Ke Qin, Jianzhong Cui

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of sprue distributions on the flow field and temperature field of the cladding casting process and verify the simulation…

Darcy-Forchheimer flow with variable thermal conductivity and Cattaneo-Christov heat flux

T. Hayat, Taseer Muhammad, Saleh Al-Mezal, S.J. Liao

The objectives of present communication are threefolds. First is to model and analyze the two-dimensional Darcy-Forchheimer flow of Maxwell fluid induced by a stretching surface…

Unsteady viscous MHD flow over a permeable curved stretching/shrinking sheet

Ioan Pop, Siti Suzilliana Putri Mohamed Isa, Norihan M. Arifin, Roslinda Nazar, Norfifah Bachok, Fadzilah M. Ali

The purpose of this paper is to theoretically study the problem of the unsteady boundary layer flow past a permeable curved stretching/shrinking surface in the presence of a…

Dual solutions for nonlinear boundary value problems by the Adomian decomposition method

Abdul-Majid Wazwaz, Randolph Rach, Lazhar Bougoffa

The purpose of this paper is to use the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) for solving boundary value problems with dual solutions.

Application of unstructured grid finite-volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM) to the Yangtze River hypoxic zone

Zhanhong Wan, Zongfu Ren, Xiaochun Wang, Honghao Zheng

To observe the relations between three important factors resulting in estuarial Hypoxia phenomena of Yangtze River – wind, river flow, and stratification. The purpose of the paper…

Thermal analysis of natural convection and radiation in a fully wet porous fin

M.T. Darvishi, Rama Subba Reddy Gorla, F. Khani, B.J. Gireesha

The purpose of this paper is to take the thermal analysis of natural convection and radiation heat transfer in fully wet porous fins. The wet porous fins taken for the analysis…

Exact and approximate analytic solutions of the thin film flow of fourth-grade fluids by the modified Adomian decomposition method

Lazhar Bougoffa, Jun-Sheng Duan, Randolph Rach

The purpose of this paper is to first deduce a new form of the exact analytic solution of the well-known nonlinear second-order differential equation subject to a set of mixed…

Lattice Boltzmann simulation of transient natural convection of air in square cavity under a magnetic quadrupole field

Nan Xie, Yihai He, Ming Yao, Changwei Jiang

The purpose of this paper is to apply the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) with multiple distribution functions model, to simulate transient natural convection of air in a…

Analysis of a new stabilized finite volume element method based on multiscale enrichment for the Navier-Stokes problem

Juan Wen, Yinnian He, Xin Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new stabilized finite volume element method for the Navier-Stokes problem.

An introduction to an ancient Chinese algorithm and its modification

Chun-Hui He

Every student knows Newton’s iteration method from a textbook, which is widely used in numerical simulation, what few may know is that its ancient Chinese partner, Ying Buzu Shu…

Natural convection and entropy generation in a three dimensional volumetrically heated and partially divided cavity

Lioua Kolsi, Nidal Abu-Hamdeh, Hakan F. Öztop, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Borjini Mohamad Naceur, Habib Ben Assia

The purpose of this paper is to provide a solution for natural convection in a cavity with a partial heater in case of volumetric heating and analysis of the entropy generation.

Flow structures and noise from a supersonic impinging jet

Abdelkader Frendi, Michael R. Brown

The purpose of this paper is to carry out an extensive numerical study in order to understand the flow structures and the resulting noise generated by a supersonic impinging jet…

3D natural convection on a horizontal and vertical thermally active plate in a closed cubical cavity

Abimanyu Purusothaman, Abderrahmane Baïri, Nagarajan Nithyadevi

The purpose of this paper is to examine numerically the natural convection heat transfer in a cubical cavity induced by a thermally active plate. Effects of the plate size and its…