International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 23 Issue 4

Parallel numerical solution of incompressible full Navier‐Stokes in 3‐D: Applications to free and mixed convection problems

V. Üstoğlu Ünal

The purpose of this paper is to develop and test an implicit scheme, accurate to the second order, for solving full Navier‐Stokes equations for three dimensional problems, using…

Aero‐design of transonic LH2 and LOX contra rotating turbopumps in an expander rocket engine

Guillermo Paniagua, Sergio Lavagnoli, Tom Verstraete, Wassim Mahmoudi, Tariq Benamara

Contra‐rotating turbines offer reduced size, weight, and cooling requirements, compared to conventional co‐rotating machinery. In spite of the associated mechanical complexity…

Some new computational methods for the Allen‐Cahn equation with non‐periodic boundary conditions arising in computational fluid dynamics

Yasir Khan, Ishtiaq Ali, S. Islam, Qing Biao Wu

The purpose of this paper is to present some numerical methods based on different time stepping and space discretization methods for the Allen‐Cahn equation with non‐periodic…

Mixed convective flow of a dusty fluid over a vertical stretching sheet with non‐uniform heat source/sink and radiation

B.J. Gireesha, A.J. Chamkha, S. Manjunatha, C.S. Bagewadi

The purpose of this paper is to study the problem of two‐dimensional unsteady mixed convective flow a dusty fluid over a stretching sheet in the presence of thermal radiation and…

Turbulent flow and heat transfer enhancement of forced convection over heated baffles in a channel: Effect of pitch of baffles

Rachid Saim, Hamidou Benzenine, Hakan F. Öztop, Khaled Al‐Salem

The purpose of this paper is to examine the turbulent fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics for rectangular channel provided with solid plate baffles which are arranged on…

Analysis of a local discontinuous Galerkin method for time‐fractional advection‐diffusion equations

Leilei Wei, Xindong Zhang, Yinnian He

The purpose of this paper is to develop a fully discrete local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) finite element method for solving a time‐fractional advection‐diffusion equation.

Numerical investigation of thermal radiation effects on open cavity with discrete heat sources

M.Y. Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi, M. Ghassemi, M.H. Hamedi

Natural convection heat transfer combined with radiation heat transfer is used in electronic cooling. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the thermal loading…

Influence of inter‐disc space on the turbulent flow between two rotating discs

Maher Raddaoui

Rotating flows are very important because they are found in industrial and domestic applications. For a good performance, it is important to dimension correctly the energy…

Homotopy analysis and homotopy Padé methods for (1+1) and (2+1)‐dimensional dispersive long wave equations

A. Jabbari, H. Kheiri, A. Yildirim

The purpose of this paper is to obtain analytic solutions of the (1+1) and (2+1)‐dimensional dispersive long wave equations by the homotopy analysis and the homotopy Padé methods.

Analysis of heat transfer through the casting‐mould interface including gas‐gap effect and application to TiAl castings

Hong Wang, Georgi Djambazov, Koulis Pericleous

The purpose of this paper is to describe how a 3D/1D transient heat transfer model has been developed for getting accurate thermal boundary conditions when investigating the heat…