International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 8 Issue 3

A numerical method for the treatment of discontinuous thermal conductivity in phase change problems

A. Laouadi, M. Lacroix, N. Galanis

Presents a physical model for determining the effective thermal conductivity of a two‐phase composite medium with fixed or moving interfaces. A rigorous numerical method for…

Formulation and experiments with high‐order compact schemes for nonuniform grids

W.F. Spotz

Considers the extension of a new class of higher‐order compact methods to nonuniform grids and examines the effect of pollution that arises with differencing the associated metric…

Presentation of a gentle discretisation scheme for the numerical treatment of nonlinear heat conduction on unstructured grids in finite volume technique

M. Kurz, A. Pusztai

The discretisation scheme presented for an unstructured triangular grid, is able to reflect the physical properties of stationary, nonlinear heat conduction even in the numerical…

Coupled finite/boundary element solution of magnetothermal problems: S.P. Song and B.Q. Li

J.M. Khodadadi

A computational methodology, based on the coupling of the finite element and boundary element methods, is developed for the solution of magnetothermal problems. The finite element…

Transient flow of homogeneous gas‐liquid mixtures in pipelines

Ezzeddine Hadj‐Taieb, Taieb Lili

To accurately predict transient flow in homogeneous gas‐liquid mixtures in rigid and quasi‐rigid pipes, two mathematical models based on the gas‐fluid mass ratio are presented…

Nonsimilar solutions for free convection from a nonisothermal vertical plate in a micropolar fluid

I.A. Hassanien, Rama Subba Reddy Gorla

A nonsimilar boundary layer analysis is presented for the problem of natural convection in micropolar fluids along a nonisothermal vertical plate. The transformed governing laws…

Thermal Modelling and Optimisation of Power Circuits

Keith Pitt