International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 14 Issue 6

Design optimization of an air‐filled cavity: control of the constrained maximum temperature at the directly heated vertical wall

Antonio Campo, Mark D. Landon

A detailed review of the archival literature on: fluid dynamics, heat transfer and shape optimization reveals that the optimal shape of natural convective cavities has not been…

An adjoint‐based design methodology for CFD problems

Orlando Soto, Rainald Löhner, Chi Yang

A complete CFD design methodology is presented. The main components of this methodology are a general edge‐based compressible/incompressible flow solver; a continuous adjoint…

Numerical study of turbulent boundary layers with heat transfer and tangential transpiration

Burhan Çuhadaroğlu

The hydrodynamic and thermal characteristics of the turbulent boundary layer developed on a porous wall with heat transfer and various angles of transpiration are analyzed…

A new computational approach to microwave heating of two‐phase porous materials

D.D. Dinčov, K.A. Parrott, K.A. Pericleous

Computational results for the microwave heating of a porous material are presented in this paper. Combined finite difference time domain and finite volume methods were used to…

Linear stability of flow in a differentially heated cavity via large‐scale eigenvalue calculations

Elizabeth A. Burroughs, Louis A. Romero, Richard B. Lehoucq, Andrew G. Salinger

Locates the onset of oscillatory instability in the fluid flow inside a differentially heated cavity with aspect ratio 2 by computing a steady‐state and analyzing the stability of…