International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 28 Issue 12

Experimental and artificial neural network investigation on the effect of inclination angle on the interface temperature of CPU/metal foam heat sink

Ali Mohammad Rashidi, Mehrad Paknezhad, Tooraj Yousefi

This study aims to clarify the relationship between inclination angle of hot surface of CPU and its temperature in absence and presence of aluminum foam as a cooling system. It…

Unsteady MHD mixed convection along an exponentially stretching surface: Impact of opposing buoyancy

Prabhugouda Mallanagouda Patil, Shashikant A., Ebrahim Momoniat

This paper aims to investigate the unsteady mixed convection along an exponentially stretching surface in presence of transverse magnetic field applied at the wall and the…

On Darcy-Forchheimer squeezed flow of carbon nanotubes between two parallel disks

Tasawar Hayat, Tayyaba Ayub, Taseer Muhammad, Ahmed Alsaedi, M. Mustafa

The purpose of this paper is to construct mathematical model for squeezed flow of carbon-water nanofluid between parallel disks considering Darcy–Forchheimer porous medium…

Solving shallow water equations with crisp and uncertain initial conditions

Perumandla Karunakar, Snehashish Chakraverty

This paper aims to deal with the application of variational iteration method and homotopy perturbation method (HPM) for solving one dimensional shallow water equations with crisp…

An optimal homotopy asymptotic method applied to the nonlinear thin film flow problems

Jalil Manafian, Cevat Teymuri sindi

This paper aims to discuss the approximate solution of the nonlinear thin film flow problems. A new analytic approximate technique for addressing nonlinear problems, namely, the…

An adaptive space-time shock capturing method with high order wavelet bases for the system of shallow water equations

Hadi Minbashian, Hojatollah Adibi, Mehdi Dehghan

This paper aims to propose an adaptive method for the numerical solution of the shallow water equations (SWEs). The authors provide an arbitrary high-order method using high-order…

The successive differentiation computer-assisted method for solving well-known scientific and engineering models

Suheil Khuri, Abdul-Majid Wazwaz

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are widely used in the engineering curriculum. They model a spectrum of interesting physical problems that arise in engineering disciplines…

Influence of temperature and magnetic field on the oblique stagnation-point flow for a nanofluid past a vertical stretching/shrinking sheet

Alessandra Borrelli, Giulia Giantesio, Maria Cristina Patria, Natalia C. Roşca, Alin V. Roşca, Ioan Pop

This paper aims to consider the influence of the temperature and of an external magnetic field on the steady oblique stagnation-point flow for a Boussinesquian nanofluid past a…

Darcy-Forchheimer flow of nanofluid in a rotating frame

Tasawar Hayat, Arsalan Aziz, Taseer Muhammad, Ahmed Alsaedi

The aim of this study is to elaborate three dimensional rotating flow of nanoliquid induced by a stretchable sheet subject to Darcy–Forchheimer porous space. Thermophoretic…

MHD natural convection and entropy analysis of a nanofluid inside T-shaped baffled enclosure

Taher Armaghani, A. Kasaeipoor, Mohsen Izadi, Ioan Pop

The purpose of this paper is to numerically study MHD natural convection and entropy generation of Al₂O₃-water alumina nanofluid inside of T-shaped baffled cavity which is…

Numerical investigation of membrane oxygenation using sub-channel analysis

Sai Nikhil Subraveti, V. Vinod Kumar, Harish Pothukuchi, P.S.T. Sai, B.S.V. Patnaik

Better membrane oxygenators need to be developed to enable efficient gas exchange between venous blood and air.

Numerical investigation for endoscopic and Soret-Dufour effects on MHD peristaltic activity of Carreau fluid

Tasawar Hayat, Javaria Akram, Hina Zahir, Ahmad Alsaedi

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize on the impact of endoscope in MHD peristaltic flow of Carreau fluid. Heat and mass transfer phenomena are comprised of Soret and Dufour…

MHD natural convection of Cu/H2O nanofluid in a horizontal semi-cylinder with a local triangular heater

A.S. Dogonchi, Mikhail A. Sheremet, Ioan Pop, D.D. Ganji

The purpose of this study is to investigate free convection of copper-water nanofluid in an upper half of circular horizontal cylinder with a local triangular heater under the…