International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 28 Issue 8

The influence of thermal radiation on unsteady free convection in inclined enclosures filled by a nanofluid with sinusoidal boundary conditions

Mikhail A. Sheremet, Ioan Pop, Alin V. Rosca

The purpose of this study is a numerical analysis of transient natural convection in an inclined square cavity filled with an alumina-water nanofluid under the effects of…

Neural networks for determining the vector normal to the surface in CFD, LBM and CA applications

Dmytro Svyetlichnyy

The well-known discrete methods of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), cellular automata (CA), volume-of-fluid (VoF) and others rely on several…

Buoyancy-induced flow and heat transfer in multilayered cavities with openings

Jiaolin Wang, Ye Zhou, Qi-Hong Deng

The purpose of this study is to investigate the flow interaction between the cavities and its impact on heat transfer. The role of the openings is examined and three strategies…

Study on the performance of spatial discretization schemes for hypersonic flow

Haiming Huang, Yumeng Hu

With the continuous increase of space activities and insight into space exploration, the velocity of near space hypersonic vehicles becomes higher and higher, which leads to the…

Development of a vortex method with penalization for modeling the complex fluid and moving/deforming solid interaction

Chao Wang, Jinju Sun, Zihao Cheng

The present study aims to develop a vortex method capable for solving the complex vortical flows past the moving/deforming bodies.

3D investigation of natural convection of nanofluids in a curved boundary enclosure applying lattice Boltzmann method

Mehdi Hosseini Abadshapoori, Mohammad Hassan Saidi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the natural convection behavior of nanofluids in an enclosure. The enclosure is a 3D capsule with curved boundaries filled with TiO₂…

Numerical study of heat transfer performance in a pipe partially filled with non-uniform porous media under LTNE condition

Hojjat Saberinejad, Ali Keshavarz, Mohammad Payandehdoost, Mohammad Reza Azmoodeh, Alireza Batooei

The purpose of this paper is to numerically investigate the heat transfer enhancement in a tube filled partially with porous media under non-uniform porosity distribution and…

Fluid flow and heat transfer for a particle-laden gas modeled as a two-phase turbulent flow

John Gorman, Eph Sparrow

The purpose of this study is to examine the physical processes experienced by a particle-laden gas due to various types of collisions, different heat transfer modalities and jet…

A high-order method for simulating convective planar Poiseuille flow over a heated rotating sphere

Don Liu, Hui-Li Han, Yong-Lai Zheng

This paper aims to present a high-order algorithm implemented with the modal spectral element method and simulations of three-dimensional thermal convective flows by using the…

Effects of cavity and heat source aspect ratios on natural convection of a nanofluid in a C-shaped cavity using Lattice Boltzmann method

Mohsen Izadi, Rasul Mohebbi, A. Chamkha, Ioan Pop

The purpose of this paper is to consider natural convection of a nanofluid inside of a C-shaped cavity using Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM).

Coupled analysis of vehicle stability in crosswind on low adhesion road

Shuya Li, Zhengqi Gu, Taiming Huang, Zhen Chen, Jun Liu

The purpose of this paper is to develop a two-way coupling approach for investigating the aerodynamic stability of vehicles under the combined effect of crosswind and road…