International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 22 Issue 4

Conjugate natural convection in an inclined nanofluid‐filled enclosure

S.M. Aminossadati, B. Ghasemi

The purpose of this paper is to numerically examine the conjugate natural convection in an inclined enclosure with a conducting centred block. This enclosure is filled with an…

Application of He's homotopy perturbation method for multi‐dimensional fractional Helmholtz equation

Praveen Kumar Gupta, A. Yildirim, K.N. Rai

This purpose of this paper is to find the approximate analytical solutions of a multidimensional partial differential equation such as Helmholtz equation with space fractional…

Analytical upstream collocation solution of a quadratically forced steady‐state convection‐diffusion equation

Stephen Brill, Eric Smith

The purpose of this paper is to present the analytical solution to the Hermite collocation discretization of a quadratically forced steady‐state convection‐diffusion equation in…

Numerical and analytical simulation of the peristaltic flow of Jeffrey fluid with Reynold's model of viscosity

Noreen Sher Akbar, Sohail Nadeem

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of temperature‐dependent viscosity on the peristaltic flow of Jeffrey fluid through the gap between two coaxial horizontal tubes.

An inverse problem in estimation of interfacial heat transfer coefficient during two‐dimensional solidification of Al 5%Wt‐Si based on PSO

P. Dousti, A.A. Ranjbar, M. Famouri, A. Ghaderi

The purpose of this paper is to estimate interfacial heat transfer coefficient (IHTC) in a two‐dimensional solidification based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO) method.

Numerical and analytical approaches to MHD Jeffery‐Hamel flow in a porous channel

H. Bararnia, Z.Z. Ganji, D.D. Ganji, S.M. Moghimi

The main purpose of the work is to demonstrate the eligibility of the methods applied and to have the more reliable and user friendly approaches to find the solution of the…

On pragmatic parallelization of a serial Navier‐Stokes solver in cylindrical coordinates

Frode Nygård, Helge I. Andersson

The purpose of this paper is to describe a pragmatic parallelization of a publicly available serial code aimed for direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow fields. The code…

Rational approximation solution of the foam drainage equation with time‐ and space‐fractional derivatives

Ahmet Yıldırım, Hüseyin Koçak

The purpose of this paper is to implement the variational iteration method and the homotopy perturbation method to give a rational approximation solution of the foam drainage…

Erratum on “Mixed convection flow over a vertical power-law stretching sheet"