International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 20 Issue 6

Fast, nonlinear network flow solvers for fluid and thermal transient analysis

Alok K. Majumdar, S.S. Ravindran

The purpose of this paper is to present a fast nonlinear solver for the prediction of transients in network flows.

Applications of variational iteration and homotopy perturbation methods to obtain exact solutions for time‐fractional diffusion‐wave equations

I˙nan Ates¸, Ahmet Yıldırım

The purpose of this paper is to consider the time‐fractional diffusion‐wave equation. The time‐fractional diffusion equation is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by…

Analysis of pressure field in time domain using nonlinear reduced frequency approach in unsteady transonic flows

M. Kharati Koopaee, M.M. Alishahi, H. Emdad

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the capability of nonlinear frequency domain (NLFD) method in predicting surface pressure coefficient presented in the time domain in…

Numerical study of blood flow through different double bell‐shaped stenosed coronary artery during the progression of the disease, atherosclerosis

D.K. Mandal, N.K. Manna, S. Chakrabarti

This paper aims to perform numerical simulations through different shaped double stenoses in a vascular tube for a better understanding of arterial blood flow patterns, and their…

An unstructured CVFEM and moving interface algorithm for non‐Newtonian Hele‐Shaw flows in injection molding

Kemelli C. Estacio, Graham F. Carey, Norberto Mangiavacchi

The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel unstructured simulation approach for injection molding processes described by the Hele‐Shaw model.