International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 23 Issue 6

Boundary layer flow of a nanofluid over an exponentially stretching sheet with convective boundary conditions

M. Mustafaa, T. Hayat, S. Obaidat

This paper aims to discuss the flow and heat transfer characteristics over an exponentially stretching sheet in a nanofluid with convective boundary conditions. The effects of…

Numerical investigation of fast precooling of a cylindrical food product based on the hyperbolic heat conduction model

Mohammed Q. Al‐Odat

In this study, the purpose was to introduce two‐dimensional hyperbolic heat conduction equations in order to simulate the fast precooling process of a cylindrically shaped food…

The onset of bio‐thermal convection induced by a combined effect of gyrotactic and oxytactic microorganisms

A.V. Kuznetsov

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stability of a suspension containing both gyrotactic and oxytactic microorganisms for the case when the suspension occupies a…

A spatially adaptive grid refinement scheme for the finite element solution of a second order obstacle problem

S. Iqbal, A. Javed, A.R. Ansari, A.M. Siddiqui

The authors' objective in this paper is to find the numerical solutions of obstacle, unilateral and contact second‐order boundary‐value problems.

Numerical resolution of Emden's equation using Adomian polynomials

María José Pujol, Francisco A. Pujol, Fidel Aznar, Mar Pujol, Ramón Rizo

In this paper the authors aim to show the advantages of using the decomposition method introduced by Adomian to solve Emden's equation, a classical non‐linear equation that…

Predictions of round impinging jet heat transfer with two k‐ω hybrid RANS/LES models

Slawomir Kubacki, Jacek Rokicki, Erik Dick

Applicability of two k‐ω hybrid RANS/LES and a k‐ω RANS models is studied for simulation of round impinging jets at nozzle‐plate distance H/D=2 with Reynolds number 70000, H/D=2…

Numerical analysis of fluid dynamics and thermal characteristics inside a wavy channel

Riccardo Mereu, Emanuela Colombo, Fabio Inzoli

This paper aims to present the results of a numerical investigation of the fluid dynamics and heat transfer behavior of forced incompressible flow inside a rectangular wavy…

Homotopy analysis method for space‐time fractional differential equations

Xindong Zhang, Leilei Wei, Bo Tang, Yinnian He

In this article, the authors aim to present the homotopy analysis method (HAM) for obtaining the approximate solutions of space‐time fractional differential equations with initial…

Effects of the scalar parameters in the Suzen‐Huang model on plasma actuator characteristics

Imran Halimi Bin Ibrahim, Martin Skote

For the past decade, plasma actuators have been identified as a subset in the realm of active flow control devices. As research into plasma actuators continues to mature…

Non‐similar solution for unsteady water boundary layer flows over a sphere with non‐uniform mass transfer

G. Revathi, P. Saikrishnan, A. Chamkha

The purpose of this paper is to make an analysis to study the non‐similar solution for unsteady water boundary layer flow over sphere with the influence of temperature‐dependent…