International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 30 Issue 12

Dual-MRT lattice Boltzmann method combined with experimental measurements of nanofluid’s properties for analysis of fin-orientation effect on natural convection heat transfer

Xiaodong Wang, David Ross

Natural convection heat transfer during free convection phenomenon in a cavity included with active fins and pipes is investigated. The influence of the orientation of fins on the…

Performance of combined spectral collocation method and artificial compressibility method for 3D incompressible fluid flow and heat transfer

Jing-Kui Zhang, Miao Cui, Ben-Wen Li, Ya-Song Sun

The purpose of this paper is to develop a combined method for three-dimensional incompressible flow and heat transfer by the spectral collocation method (SCM) and the artificial…

Entropy generation analysis of multi-walled carbon nanotube dispersed nanoliquid in the presence of heat source through a vertical microchannel

S. Sindhu, B.J. Gireesha, G. Sowmya

The influence of radiation on nanoliquid flow through a vertical microchannel in the presence of heat source is examined. This study aims to investigate the efficiency of…

Thermal investigation of fully wet longitudinal porous fin of functionally graded material

G. Sowmya, Gireesha B.J., Muhammad Ijaz Khan, Shaher Momani, Tasawar Hayat

The purpose of this study is to conduct a numerical computation to analyse the thermal attribute and heat transfer phenomenon of a fully wetted porous fin of a longitudinal…

Stability and convergence of iterative finite element methods for the thermally coupled incompressible MHD flow

Jinting Yang, Tong Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to propose three iterative finite element methods for equations of thermally coupled incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) on 2D/3D bounded…

Reconstruction of the thermal properties in a wave-type model of bio-heat transfer

Moataz Alosaimi, Daniel Lesnic, Jitse Niesen

This study aims to at numerically retrieve five constant dimensional thermo-physical properties of a biological tissue from dimensionless boundary temperature measurements.

Investigation of nanoparticles shape effects on MHD nanofluid flow and heat transfer over a rotating stretching disk through porous medium

Umair Rashid, Haiyi Liang

In this article, we consider the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nanofluid flow over a rotating stretchable disk through porous medium. For porous medium, Darcy’s relation is used. It…

Three-phase lag model of thermo-elastic interaction in a 2D porous material due to pulse heat flux

Aatef Hobiny, Faris S. Alzahrani, Ibrahim Abbas

The purposes of this study, a generalized model for thermoelastic wave under three-phase lag (TPL) model is used to compute the increment of temperature, the components of…