International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 17 Issue 4

Thermal characterisation of rectangular cooling shapes in solids

Jaco Dirker, Arnaud G. Malan, Josua P. Meyer

This paper aims to investigate thermal geometric optimisation of rectangular heat conductive cooling structures within solid heat‐generating media for the purpose of minimising…

Numerical simulation of three‐dimensional interfacial flows

E. Jahanbakhsh, R. Panahi, M.S. Seif

This study aims to present compatible computational fluid dynamics procedure for calculation of incompressible three‐dimensional time‐dependent flow with complicated free surface…

Hybrid solution for transient internal convection with axial diffusion: Integral transforms and local instantaneous filtering

R.R. Gondim, E.N. Macedo, R.M. Cotta

This paper seeks to analyze transient convection‐diffusion by employing the generalized integral transform technique (GITT) combined with an arbitrary transient filtering…

Numerical simulation of time‐dependent heat and fluid flows inside and around single rising bubbles using a moving axisymmetric boundary‐fitted mesh system

Huanxin Lai, Yuying Yan, Keqi Wu

This paper aims to develop a numerical method for analysing the time‐dependent conjugate heat and fluid flows inside and around single bubbles rising in a hot liquid.

Numerical simulation of natural convection in a partitioned enclosure using PDQ method

Kamil Kahveci

This paper seeks to investigate the effect of a heat conducting vertical partition in an enclosure on natural convection heat transfer and fluid flow using the polynomial‐based…