International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 27 Issue 1

Heat and mass transfer analysis in natural convection flow of nanofluid over a vertical cone with chemical reaction

P. Sudarsana Reddy, A. Chamkha

In recent years, nanofluids are being widely used in many thermal systems because of their higher thermal conductivity and heat transfer rate. The higher thermal conductivity…

Transient two-dimensional natural convection flow of a nanofluid past an isothermal vertical plate using Buongiorno’s model

Marneni Narahari, Suresh Kumar Raju Soorapuraju, Rajashekhar Pendyala, Ioan Pop

The purpose of this paper is to present a numerical investigation of the transient two-dimensional natural convective boundary-layer flow of a nanofluid past an isothermal…

Nonlinear radiation effects on flow of nanofluid over a porous wedge in the presence of magnetic field

Umar Khan, Naveed Ahmed, Bandar Bin-Mohsen, Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din

The purpose of this paper is to assess the flow of a nanofluid over a porous moving wedge. The passive control model along with the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects is used to…

Flow impingement on a perforated plate at an angle of attack

Yilmaz Bayazit, Eph Sparrow, John Gorman

The purpose of this paper is to provide both directly applicable fluid-flow results and fluid-mechanic fundamentals for flow impinging at an angle of attack on a perforated plate.

Mixed convection flow, heat transfer, species concentration near the stagnation point on a vertical flat plate with Stefan coupled blowing

Natalia C. Rosca, Alin V. Rosca, John H. Merkin, Ioan Pop

The purpose of this study is to consider the effects that buoyancy arising from the combination of both thermal and concentration gradients can have on the mixed convection…

Optimization of the blowing ratio for film cooling on a flat plate

Mojtaba Kazemi Kelishami, Esmail Lakzian

The purpose of this paper is to report the result of a numerical investigation of film cooling performance on a flat plate for finding optimum blowing ratios.

Unsteady mixed convection stagnation-point flow over a plate moving along the direction of flow impingement

Siti Hidayah Muhad Saleh, Norihan Md. Arifin, Roslinda Nazar, Ioan Pop

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an analysis performed to study unsteady mixed convection at the stagnation point flow over a plate moving along the…

Simplified model for polyurethane foaming in porous media

Hani Sadrhosseini, Saed Bazkhane

The purpose of the study is to present a simplified model to replace the complicated foaming simulations for investigating the liquid polyurethane behavior just before…

Heat generating/absorbing and chemically reacting Casson fluid flow over a vertical cone and flat plate saturated with non-Darcy porous medium

Mythili Durairaj, Sivaraj Ramachandran, Rashidi Mohammad Mehdi

The present investigation aims to deal with the study of unsteady, heat-generating/-absorbing and chemically reacting Casson fluid flow over a vertical cone and flat plate…

Practical analytical steady-state temperature solution for annealed pyrolytic graphite heat spreader

Nhat Minh Nguyen, Eric Monier-Vinard, Najib Laraqi, Valentin Bissuel, Olivier Daniel

The purpose of this paper is to supply an analytical steady-state solution to the heat transfer equation permitting to fast design investigation. The capability to efficiently…

Heat transfer enhancement via Görtler flow with spatial numerical simulation

Vinicius Malatesta, Josuel Kruppa Rogenski, Leandro Franco de Souza

The centrifugal instability mechanism of boundary layers over concave surfaces is responsible for the development of quasi-periodic, counter-rotating vortices aligned in a…

Dual solutions for nonlinear boundary value problems by the variational iteration method

Abdul-Majid Wazwaz

The purpose of this paper is to use the variational iteration method (VIM) for studying boundary value problems (BVPs) characterized with dual solutions.

Numerical study of nanofluid flow and heat transfer over a rotating disk using Buongiorno’s model

Junaid Ahmad Khan, M. Mustafa, T. Hayat, Mustafa Turkyilmazoglu, A. Alsaedi

The purpose of the present study is to explore a three-dimensional rotating flow of water-based nanofluids caused by an infinite rotating disk.

Large-eddy simulation of decaying isotropic turbulence using the flowfield dependent variation method

Seyi F. Olatoyinbo, Sarma L. Rani, Abdelkader Frendi

The purpose of this study is to investigate the accuracy and applicability of the Flowfield Dependent Variation (FDV) method for large-eddy simulations (LES) of decaying isotropic…

A stochastically weighted operator splitting Monte Carlo (SWOSMC) method for the numerical simulation of complex aerosol dynamic processes

Shuyuan Liu, Tat L. Chan

The purpose of this paper is to study the complex aerosol dynamic processes by using this newly developed stochastically weighted operator splitting Monte Carlo (SWOSMC) method.