International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 33 Issue 6

Prediction of the temperature–time history in ordinary bodies induced by surface heat flux utilizing the enhanced method of discretization in time and the finite difference method

Antonio Campo, Diego Celentano, Yunesky Masip

The purpose of this paper is to address unsteady heat conduction in two subsets of ordinary bodies. One subset consists of a large plane wall, a long cylinder and a sphere in one…

Prediction identification method of time-varying internal heat source based on inverse heat transfer problem

Zhenjun Li, Chunyu Zhao

This paper aims to discuss the inverse problems that arise in various practical heat transfer processes. The purpose of this paper is to provide an identification method for…

Fourier transform approach to homogenization of frequency-dependent heat transfer in porous media

Quy Dong To, Guy Bonnet

The purpose of this paper is to solve the local problem involving strong contrast heterogeneous conductive material, with application to gas-filled porous media with both perfect…

Rayleigh waves in nonlocal generalized thermoelastic media

Manjeet Kumar, Pradeep Kaswan, Nantu Sarkar, Xu Liu, Manjeet Kumari

The purpose of this article is to investigate the propagation characteristics (such as particle motion, attenuation and phase velocity) of a Rayleigh wave in a nonlocal…

Thermal transport in nanofluid across a radiated permeable sheet with irreversible effects based on the shape of the particles

Tahir Naseem, Azeem Shahzad

The purpose of this study is to examine the flow and heat transfer performance of titanium oxide/water and copper/water nanofluids with varying nanoparticle morphologies by…

Numerical and experimental investigation for enhancing thermal performance of a concentric heat exchanger using different scenarios

İpek Aytaç, Yosef Badali, Azim Doğuş Tuncer

Heat exchangers (HEs) which provide heat transfer and transfer energy through direct or indirect contact between fluids have an essential role in many processes as a part of…

Analysis of hydrothermal performance for laminar forced convective flow through a wavy channel with porous blocks

Sumit Kumar Mehta, Sukumar Pati

The purpose of this paper is to investigate computationally the hydrothermal characteristics for forced convective laminar flow of water through a channel with a top wavy wall and…

Enhancement of natural convection of a nanofluid by stress-free patches in an L-shaped enclosure

Yuan Ma, Hui Tang, Chenglei Wang

This study aims at investigating the heat transfer characteristics of a nonsquare enclosure when hydrodynamic resistance is altered discontinuously along its inner surface…

The flow and heat in the conical region of a rotating cone and an expanding disk

Mustafa Turkyilmazoglu

The fluid flow and heat transfer between a rotating cone above a stretching disk is the prime purpose of the current work. Making use of suitable similarity transformations, it is…

Benchmarking the face-centred finite volume method for compressible laminar flows

Jordi Vila-Pérez, Matteo Giacomini, Antonio Huerta

This study aims to assess the robustness and accuracy of the face-centred finite volume (FCFV) method for the simulation of compressible laminar flows in different regimes, using…

Natural convection of NEPCM in a partial porous H-shaped cavity: ISPH simulation

Abdelraheem M. Aly, Noura Alsedais

This paper aims to investigate the conformable fractal approaches of unsteady natural convection in a partial layer porous H-shaped cavity suspended by nano-encapsulated phase…

Energy analysis at the interface of piezo/thermoelastic half spaces

Vipin Gupta, Rajesh Kumar, Rajneesh Kumar, M.S. Barak

This paper aims to study the energy ratios of plane waves on an interface of nonlocal thermoelastic halfspace (NTS) and nonlocal orthotropic piezothermoelastic half-space (NOPS).

Effects of coflow-jet active flow control on airfoil stall

Shima Yazdani, Erfan Salimipour, Ayoob Salimipour, Mikhail A. Sheremet, Mohammad Ghalambaz

Active flow control on the NACA 0024 airfoil defined as suction-injection jet at the chord-based Reynolds number of 1.5 × 1e + 5 is studied.

Numerical simulation of Bratu’s problem using a new form of the Adomian decomposition technique

Umesh Umesh

This paper aims to discuss a new form of the Adomian decomposition technique for the numerical treatment of Bratu’s type one-dimensional boundary value problems (BVPs). Moreover…

An arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian method for fluid–structure interactions due to underwater explosions

Rainald Löhner, Lingquan Li, Orlando Antonio Soto, Joseph David Baum

This study aims to evaluate blast loads on and the response of submerged structures.