International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 22 Issue 6

Application of homotopy perturbation and numerical methods to the circular porous slider

M. Madani, Yasir Khan, Gh. Mahmodi, Naeem Faraz, Ahmet Yildirim, B. Nasernejad

The purpose of this paper is to present the problem of three‐dimensional flow of a fluid of constant density forced through the porous bottom of a circular porous slider moving…

Immersed volume method for solving natural convection, conduction and radiation of a hat‐shaped disk inside a 3D enclosure

E. Hachem, H. Digonnet, E. Massoni, T. Coupez

The purpose of this paper is to present an immersed volume method that accounts for solid conductive bodies (hat‐shaped disk) in calculation of time‐dependent, three‐dimensional…

Experimental and numerical investigation of the flap application in an airfoil in combination with a cross flow fan

Mohammad Hasan Shojaeefard, Salar Askari

The purpose of this paper is to study flap application in the airfoil comprising a cross flow fan by experiment and numerical simulation.

Simulation of heating scheme and chemical reactions on the peristaltic flow of an Eyring‐Powell fluid

Noreen Sher Akbar, S. Nadeem, T. Hayat, Awatif A. Hendi

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of heat and mass transfer on the peristaltic flow of Eyring‐Powell fluid in a diverging tube.

Application of semi‐analytical methods for solving the Rosenau‐Hyman equation arising in the pattern formation in liquid drops

Mehdi Dehghan, Jalil Manafian, Abbas Saadatmandi

Rosenau‐Hyman equation was discovered as a simplified model to study the role of nonlinear dispersion on pattern formation in liquid drops. Also, this equation has important roles…

The differential transform method and Padé approximants for a fractional population growth model

Vedat Suat Erturk, Ahmet Yıldırım, Shaher Momanic, Yasir Khan

The purpose of this paper is to propose an approximate method for solving a fractional population growth model in a closed system. The fractional derivatives are described in the…

Approximate solutions for Fornberg‐Whitham type equations

Jafar Biazar, Mostafa Eslami

The purpose of this study is to propose an analytical approach based on the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) for solving the initial value problems associated with the…