International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 23 Issue 2

Investigation into thermal performance of nanosized phase change material (PCM) in microchannel flow

Awad B.S. Alquaity, Salem A. Al‐Dini, Bekir S. Yilbas

Heat capacity enhancement is important for variety of applications, including microchannel cooling and solar thermal energy conversion. A promising method to enhance heat capacity…

Natural convection of nanofluids flow with “nanofluid‐oriented” models of thermal conductivity and dynamic viscosity in the presence of heat source

George C. Bourantas, Eugenios D. Skouras, Vassilios C. Loukopoulos, George C. Nikiforidis

The purpose of this paper is to make a numerical study of natural convection of water‐based nanofluids in a square cavity when a discrete heat source is embedded on the bottom…

Joule heating effect on magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection boundary layer flow with variable electrical conductivity

Anwar Hossain, Rama Subba Reddy Gorla

The paper's aim is to investigate the mixed convection flow of an electrically conducting and viscous incompressible fluid past an isothermal vertical surface with Joule heating…

Series solution for heat transfer of continuous stretching sheet immersed in a micropolar fluid in the existence of radiation

M.S. Shadloo, A. Kimiaeifar, D. Bagheri

The purpose of this paper is to study a two‐dimensional steady convective flow of a micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet in the presence of radiation with constant temperature.

Exact solutions of extended shallow water wave equations by exp‐function method

Ahmet Bekir, Esin Aksoy

The purpose of this paper is to apply the exp‐function method to construct exact solutions of nonlinear wave equations. The proposed technique is tested on the (2+1) and (3+1…

Combined gas radiation and laminar forced convection flow adjacent to a forward facing step in a duct

A.B. Ansari, S.A. Gandjalikhan Nassab

The purpose of this paper is to focus on thermal characteristics behavior of forced convection flow in a duct over forward facing step (FFS), in which all of the heat transfer…

Large‐eddy simulation of a compressible free jet flow on unstructured elements

Nima Tajallipour, Vimal Kumar, Marius Paraschivoiu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a large‐eddy simulation, using low order numerical discretization and upwinding schemes on unstructured grids, for a turbulent free jet…

Homotopy analysis method for the one‐dimensional hyperbolic telegraph equation with initial conditions

Behrouz Raftari, Heidar Khosravi, Ahmet Yildirim

The purpose of this paper is to obtain approximate analytical solution of the second order hyperbolic telegraph equation with initial conditions, by the homotopy analysis method…

Effect of ion‐slip current on the thermal instability of natural convection flow in a boundary layer flow past a horizontal flat plate

Ming‐Han Lin, Chin‐Tai Chen

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of ion‐slip current and Hall current on the formation of longitudinal vortices in natural convection flow over a heated…

Solutions for MHD viscous flow due to a shrinking sheet by Hankel‐Padé method

S. Abbasbandy, H. Roohani Ghehsareh

In this paper, an analysis is performed to find the solution of a nonlinear ordinary differential equation that appears in a model for MHD viscous flow caused by a shrinking sheet.