International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 34 Issue 3

Letter to the editor: Comments on the paper “derivation of lump solutions to a variety of Boussinesq equations with distinct dimensions”

Roman Cherniha

Double diffusive MHD squeezing copper water nanofluid flow between parallel plates filled with porous medium and chemical reaction

Chandrapushpam T., M. Bhuvaneswari, Sivasankaran Sivanandam

This paper aims to explore the double diffusive magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) squeezed flow of (Cu–water) nanofluid between two analogous plates filled with Darcy porous material in…

Numerical analysis on the thermal management of phase change material with fins for lithium-ion batteries

Shian Li, Yuanzhe Cheng, Qiuwan Shen, Chongyang Wang, Chengdong Peng, Guogang Yang

The purpose of this study is to improve the thermal management of lithium-ion batteries. The phase change material (PCM) cooling does not require additional equipment to consume…

Effect of initial conditions on a one-dimensional model of small-amplitude wave propagation in shallow water. II: Blowup for nonsmooth conditions

J.I. Ramos, Carmen María García López

The purpose of this paper is to analyze numerically the blowup in finite time of the solutions to a one-dimensional, bidirectional, nonlinear wave model equation for the…

A numerical study on the effects of inclination angle and container material on thermal energy storage by phase change material in a thick-walled disc

Burak Kiyak, Hakan Fehmi Oztop, Ishak Gökhan Aksoy

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of inclination angle on the thermal energy storage capability of a phase change material (PCM) within a disc-shaped container…

Conductive panel cooling by using coupled effects of nano-jet impingement, double rotating cylinders and magnetic field under cross-flow

Fatih Selimefendigil, Hakan F. Oztop

This study aims to examine the effects of cross-flow and multiple jet impingement on conductive panel cooling performance when subjected to uniform magnetic field effects. The…

Hiemenz stagnation point flow of a second-order micropolar slip flow with heat transfer

Waqar Khan Usafzai, Emad H. Aly, Ioan Pop

This paper aims to study a non-Newtonian micropolar fluid flow over a bidirectional flexible surface for multiple exact solutions of momentum boundary layer and thermal transport…

Flow and heat transfer analysis of laminar flow in hypersonic aircraft with variable specific heat capacity at small attack angles

Mengxia Du, Qiao Wang, Yan Zhang, Yu Bai, Chunqiu Wei, Chunyan Liu

As to different angles of attack and nonlinear problems caused by high temperatures in coexisting hypersonic aircraft, people mainly rely on fluid software for research but lack…

Numerical simulation of pulsatile blood flow through eccentric double stenosed carotid artery

Swapnil Narayan Rajmane, Shaligram Tiwari

This study aims to perform three-dimensional numerical computations for blood flow through a double stenosed carotid artery. Pulsatile flow with Womersley number (Wo) of 4.65 and…

Investigation of the lattice Boltzmann method to resolve combined radiation-conduction heat transfer in participating media with curved boundaries

Marjan Sharifi, Majid Siavashi, Milad Hosseini

Present study aims to extend the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to simulate radiation in geometries with curved boundaries, as the first step to simulate radiation in complex…

Developing computational methods of heat flow using bioheat equation enhancing skin thermal modeling efficiency

Rouhollah Ostadhossein, Siamak Hoseinzadeh

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the response of human skin to an intense temperature drop at the surface. In addition, this paper aims to evaluate the…

High-order relaxation methods for nonequilibrium two-phase flow equations

Fatima Harbate, Nouh Izem, Mohammed Seaid, Dia Zeidan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the two-phase flow problems involving gas–liquid mixture.

Dual solutions for axisymmetric flow and heat transfer due to a permeable radially shrinking disk in copper oxide (CuO) and silver (Ag) hybrid nanofluids with radiation effect

Iskandar Waini, Farah Nadzirah Jamrus, Natalia C. Roșca, Alin V. Roșca, Ioan Pop

This study aims to investigate the dual solutions for axisymmetric flow and heat transfer due to a permeable radially shrinking disk in copper oxide (CuO) and silver (Ag) hybrid…

Investigation of an improved cold plate design with circuitous minichannel: a computational study involving the effect of conjugate heat transfer

Jyoti Ranjan Mohapatra, Manoj Kumar Moharana

This study aims to investigate a new circuitous minichannel cold plate (MCP) design involving flow fragmentation. The overall thermal performance and the temperature uniformity…

Precision and efficiency of an interpolation approach to weakly singular integral equations

Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat, Lakshmi Narayan Mishra, Vishnu Narayan Mishra, Cemil Tunç, Osman Tunç

This study aims to discuss the numerical solutions of weakly singular Volterra and Fredholm integral equations, which are used to model the problems like heat conduction in…

Thermal conductivity prediction of aerogel considering heat treatment effect and the application to a TPS of long endurance HFVs

Ting Dai, Chang Tao

For a thermal protection system (TPS) of long endurance hypersonic flight vehicle (HFV), its thermal insulation property not only determines by the manufactured morphology but…