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Publication date: 4 January 2013

J.C. Mandal and C.R. Sonawane

The purpose of this paper is to simulate flow inside differentially heated rotating cavity using two different formulations; one using Navier‐Stokes (NS) equations derived in…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to simulate flow inside differentially heated rotating cavity using two different formulations; one using Navier‐Stokes (NS) equations derived in non‐inertial (rotating) frame of reference and the other using NS equations in inertial frame of reference. Then to compare the results obtained from these formulations to find their merits and demerits.

Design/methodology/approach

The NS equations for both non‐inertial and inertial formulations are written in artificial compressibility form before discretizing them by a high resolution finite volume method. The dual time steeping approach of Jameson is used for time accuracy in both the formulations. Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) approach is used for taking care of moving boundary problem arising in the inertial formulation. A newly developed HLLC‐AC Riemann solver for discretizing convective fluxes and central differencing for discretizing viscous fluxes are used in the finite volume approach. Results for both the formulations are first validated with test cases reported in literature. Then the results of the two formulations are compared among themselves.

Findings

Results of the non‐inertial formulation obtained by the proposed method are found to match well with those reported in literature. The results of both the formulations match well for low rotational speeds of the cavity. The discrepancies between the results of the two formulations progressively increase with the increase in rotational speed. Implicit treatment of the source term is found to reduce the discrepancies.

Practical implications

The present approach is useful for accurate prediction of flow feature and heat transfer characteristic in case of applications such as manufacturing of single wafer crystal for semiconductor and in numerous metallurgical processes.

Originality/value

The ALE formulation is used for the first time to simulate a differentially heated rotating cavity problem. The attempt to compare non‐inertial and inertial formulations is also reported for the first time. Implicit treatment of the source term leading to change in solution accuracy is one of the important findings of the present investigation.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 23 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 7 March 2016

Shainath Ramesh Kalamkar and Jadav Chandra Mandal

The purpose of this paper is to present two low diffusive convective-pressure flux split finite volume algorithms for solving incompressible flows in artificial compressibility…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present two low diffusive convective-pressure flux split finite volume algorithms for solving incompressible flows in artificial compressibility framework.

Design/methodology/approach

The present method follows the framework similar to advection upwind splitting method of Liou and Steffen for compressible flows which is used by Vierendeels et al. to solve incompressible flow equations. Instead of discretizing the total inviscid flux using upwind scheme, the inviscid flux is first split into convective and pressure parts, and then discretized the two parts differently. The convective part is discretized using upwind method and the pressure part using central differencing. Since the Vierendeels type scheme may not be able to capture the divergence free velocity field due to the presence of artificial dissipation term, a strategy to progressively withdraw the dissipation with time step is proposed here that can ascertain the divergence free velocity condition to the level of residual error. This approach helps in reducing the amount of numerical dissipation due to upwind discretization, which is evident from the numerical test examples.

Findings

Upwind treatment of only the convective part of the inviscid flux terms, instead of the whole inviscid flux term, leads to more accurate solutions even at relatively coarse grids, which is substantiated by numerical test examples.

Research limitations/implications

The method is presently applicable to Cartesian grid.

Originality/value

Although similar formulation is reported by Vierendeels et al., no detailed study of the accuracy is presented. Discretization and solution reconstructions used in the present approach differ from the approach reported by Vierendeels et al. A modification to Vierendeels type scheme is proposed that can help in achieving divergence free velocity condition. Finally the efficacy of the present approach to produce very accurate solutions even on coarse grids is successfully demonstrated using a few benchmark problems.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 26 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 14 June 2011

Jadav Chandra Mandal and Anesh S. Iyer

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel numerical method to solve incompressible flows with natural and mixed convections using pseudo‐compressibility formulation.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel numerical method to solve incompressible flows with natural and mixed convections using pseudo‐compressibility formulation.

Design/methodology/approach

The present method is derived using the framework of Harten Lax and van Leer with contact (HLLC) method of Toro, Spruce and Spears, that was originally developed for compressible gas dynamics equations. This work generalizes the algorithm described in the previous paper to the case where heat transfer is involved. Here, the solution of the Riemann problem is approximated by a three‐wave system.

Findings

A few test cases involving incompressible laminar flows inside 2D square cavity for various Rayleigh and Reynolds numbers are considered for validating the present method. The computed results from the present method are found to be quite promising.

Originality/value

Although pseudo‐compressibility formulation has been found to have superior performance and has the potential to have numerical treatments similar to compressible flow equations, only two numerical methods have been applied so far; namely Jameson method and Roes flux difference splitting method. A new sophisticated numerical method, following the framework of HLLC method, is derived and implemented for solving pseudo‐compressibility‐based incompressible flow equations with heat transfer.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 21 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 16 April 2024

Satyendra Kr Sharma, Rajkumar Sharma and Anil Jindal

Supply chain vulnerability (SCV) analysis is vital for manufacturers globally because it creates a pathway for building resilient supply chains in uncertain environments. This…

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Purpose

Supply chain vulnerability (SCV) analysis is vital for manufacturers globally because it creates a pathway for building resilient supply chains in uncertain environments. This study aims to identify drivers of SCV in the Indian manufacturing sector.

Design/methodology/approach

Sixteen drivers were identified from the literature review and followed by expert interviews. Interpretive structural modeling was used to determine the hierarchical structural relationship among identified SCV factors.

Findings

It was found that risk is not a board room agenda. Misaligned performance measures with incentives and lack of risk dashboard are the causal factors of SCV. Supply chain security, centralized production and distribution and lack of trust in the supply chain were driven factors.

Originality/value

This provides new insights to assess and prioritize initiatives for supply chain sustainability in terms of continuing business operations. The structural model provides a systemic view of SCV and helps reduce vulnerability.

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Journal of Modelling in Management, vol. 19 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1746-5664

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Publication date: 7 March 2016

Božidar Šarler, Nicola Massarotti and P Nithiarasu

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 26 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 5 May 2015

Akil Jassim Harfash

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a model for convection induced by the selective absorption of radiation in a fluid layer. The concentration based internal heat source…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a model for convection induced by the selective absorption of radiation in a fluid layer. The concentration based internal heat source is modelled quadratically. Both linear instability and global nonlinear energy stability analyses are tested using three dimensional simulations. The results show that the linear threshold accurately predicts on the onset of instability in the basic steady state. However, the required time to arrive at the steady state increases significantly as the Rayleigh number tends to the linear threshold.

Design/methodology/approach

The author introduce the stability analysis of the problem of convection induced by absorption of radiation in fluid layer, then the author select a situations which have very big subcritical region. Then, the author develop a three dimensions simulation for the problem. To do this, first, the author transform the problem to velocity – vorticity formulation, then the author use a second order finite difference schemes. The author use implicit and explicit schemes to enforce the free divergence equation. The size of the Box is evaluated according to the normal modes representation. Moreover, the author adopt the periodic boundary conditions for velocity and temperature in the $x, y$ dimensions.

Findings

This paper explores a model for convection induced by the selective absorption of radiation in a fluid layer. The results demonstrate that the linear instability thresholds accurately predict the onset of instability. A three-dimensional numerical approach is adopted.

Originality/value

As the author believe, this paper is one of the first studies which deal with study of stability of convection using a three dimensional simulation. When the difference between the linear and nonlinear thresholds is very large, the comparison between these thresholds is very interesting and useful.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 25 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 28 October 2013

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 23 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 16 June 2020

Paragmoni Kalita, Anoop K. Dass and Jongki Hazarika

The flux vector splitting (FVS) schemes are known for their higher resistance to shock instabilities and carbuncle phenomena in high-speed flow computations, which are generally…

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The flux vector splitting (FVS) schemes are known for their higher resistance to shock instabilities and carbuncle phenomena in high-speed flow computations, which are generally accompanied by relatively large numerical diffusion. However, it is desirable to control the numerical diffusion of FVS schemes inside the boundary layer for improved accuracy in viscous flow computations. This study aims to develop a new methodology for controlling the numerical diffusion of FVS schemes for viscous flow computations with the help of a recently developed boundary layer sensor.

Design/methodology/approach

The governing equations are solved using a cell-centered finite volume approach and Euler time integration. The gradients in the viscous fluxes are evaluated by applying the Green’s theorem. For the inviscid fluxes, a new approach is introduced, where the original upwind formulation of an FVS scheme is first cast into an equivalent central discretization along with a numerical diffusion term. Subsequently, the numerical diffusion is scaled down by using a novel scaling function that operates based on a boundary layer sensor. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated by applying the same on van Leer’s FVS and AUSM schemes. The resulting schemes are named as Diffusion-Regulated van Leer’s FVS-Viscous (DRvLFV) and Diffusion-Regulated AUSM-Viscous (DRAUSMV) schemes.

Findings

The numerical tests show that the DRvLFV scheme shows significant improvement over its parent scheme in resolving the skin friction and wall heat flux profiles. The DRAUSMV scheme is also found marginally more accurate than its parent scheme. However, stability requirements limit the scaling down of only the numerical diffusion term corresponding to the acoustic part of the AUSM scheme.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first successful attempt to regulate the numerical diffusion of FVS schemes inside boundary layers by applying a novel scaling function to their artificial viscosity forms. The new methodology can reduce the erroneous smearing of boundary layers by FVS schemes in high-speed flow applications.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 31 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 7 June 2019

Tomasz Sobota

The knowledge of the heat transfer coefficient is important for the proper design of heat exchangers as well as for the determination of the working medium outlet temperatures…

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The knowledge of the heat transfer coefficient is important for the proper design of heat exchangers as well as for the determination of the working medium outlet temperatures. This paper aims to present a method of simultaneous determination of coefficients in correlation formulas for the Nusselt number on both sides of the heat transfer surface.

Design/methodology/approach

The idea of the developed method is based on determining such a values of the coefficients in Nusselt number correlations that fulfill the condition of equality between the measured and calculated temperature at the outlet of heat exchanger in terms of least squares method. To test the proposed method, a special experimental installation was built. The heat transfer in helically coiled tube-in-tube heat exchanger was examined for the wide range of temperature changes and volumetric flow rates of working fluid.

Findings

The simulation results were validated with an experimental data. The results show that the heat transfer coefficient of the counter-current is higher than the co-current flow in helically coiled heat exchanger. This phenomenon can be beneficial particularly in the laminar flow regime.

Research limitations/implications

The correlation for the Nusselt number as a function of the Reynolds and Prandtl numbers for hot and cold liquid was obtained with the least squares method for the experimental data.

Practical implications

The presented method allows for the simultaneous determination of heat transfer coefficient on both sides of the wall without the necessity of indirect calculation of the overall heat transfer coefficient. The presented method can be used in the thermal design of various type heat exchangers.

Originality/value

This work presents the new methodology of determination correlations for the helically coiled tube-in-tube heat exchanger for co-current and counter-current arrangement, which can be used in thermal design.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 30 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 5 December 2023

Manoj Kumar Verma and Mayank Yuvaraj

In recent years, instant messaging platforms like WhatsApp have gained substantial popularity in both academic and practical domains. However, despite this growth, there is a lack…

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Purpose

In recent years, instant messaging platforms like WhatsApp have gained substantial popularity in both academic and practical domains. However, despite this growth, there is a lack of a comprehensive overview of the literature in this field. The primary purpose of this study is to bridge this gap by analyzing a substantial dataset of 12,947 articles retrieved from the Dimensions.ai, database spanning from 2011 to March 2023.

Design/methodology/approach

To achieve the authors' objective, the authors employ bibliometric analysis techniques. The authors delve into various bibliometric networks, including citation networks, co-citation networks, collaboration networks, keywords and bibliographic couplings. These methods allow for the uncovering of the social and conceptual structures within the academic discourse surrounding WhatsApp.

Findings

The authors' analysis reveals several significant findings. Firstly, the authors observe a remarkable and continuous growth in the number of academic studies dedicated to WhatsApp over time. Notably, two prevalent themes emerge: the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the role of WhatsApp in the realm of social media. Furthermore, the authors' study highlights diverse applications of WhatsApp, including its utilization in education and learning, as a communication tool, in medical education, cyberpsychology, security, psychology and behavioral learning.

Originality/value

This paper contributes to the field by offering a comprehensive overview of the scholarly research landscape related to WhatsApp. The findings not only illuminate the burgeoning interest in WhatsApp among researchers but also provide insights into the diverse domains where WhatsApp is making an impact. The analysis of bibliometric networks offers a unique perspective on the social and conceptual structures within this field, shedding light on emerging trends and influential research. This study thus serves as a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners and policymakers seeking to navigate the evolving landscape of WhatsApp research. The study will also be useful for researchers interested in conducting bibliometric analysis using Dimensions.ai, a free database.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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