International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 24 Issue 8

Pressure and flow propagation rule beyond original premixed area of methane-air in tunnel

Qi Zhang, Qiuju Ma

Whether a fire can be initiated in an explosion accident depends on the explosion and deflagration process. In the methane-air explosion in a tunnel, the flame accelerates from…

The meshless method of radial basis functions for the numerical solution of time fractional telegraph equation

Akbar Mohebbi, Mostafa Abbaszadeh, Mehdi Dehghan

The purpose of this paper is to show that the meshless method based on radial basis functions (RBFs) collocation method is powerful, suitable and simple for solving one and two…

Numerical Simulation of PCM melting over a wavy surface

Tarik Kousksou, Mustapha Mahdaoui, Arid Ahmed, Jean Batina

– The purpose of this paper is to conduct a numerical study to analyze the melting process along a vertical wavy surface with uniform surface temperature.

Local entropy generation in co-flowing turbulent jets with variable density

Mohamed Hichem Gazzah, Hafedh Belmabrouk

The effects of a co-flow and inlet jet temperature on local entropy generation in turbulent round jets have been studied numerically. The second-order closure turbulence model has…

Convective heat transfer of a single annually finned-tube condenser

Z.X. Yuan, L. Chen

The purpose of this paper is to study the thermal and flow characteristics of a single annually finned-tube condenser. The velocity and the temperature field inside the fin…

Magnetic field effect on Soret driving free convection in an inclined porous cavity saturated by a conducting binary mixture

Rtibi Ahmed, Hasnaoui Mohammed, Amahmid Abdelkhalk

The purpose of this paper is to study analytically and numerically the effect of a transverse magnetic field on the separation of species induced in an inclined rectangular porous…

New numerical technique for solving the fractional Huxley equation

Talaat El-Sayed El-Danaf, Mfida Ali Zaki, Wedad Moenaaem

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility of extension to the variational iteration and the Adomian decomposition methods for solving nonlinear Huxley equation…

Numerical simulation of a two-phase flow in the electrospinning process

Lan Xu, HongYing Liu, Na Si, Eric Wai Ming Lee

An electrospinning process is a multi-phase and multi-physics process. The purpose of this paper is to numerically simulate the two-phase flow in the electrospinning process. The…

Research on the single scattering albedo of spheroids

Hong Tang, Xian-Xia Li

– The purpose of this paper is to discuss the light scattering of nonspherical particles that is very important for the research on the aerosol optical properties.

Monte Carlo simulation of aerosol evolution in a planar mixing layer

Kun Zhou, Zhu He

The purpose of this paper is to investigate aerosol evolution in a planar mixing layer from a Lagrangian point of view. After using Monte Carlo (MC) method to simulate the…

Nanoparticle-laden gas flow around a circular cylinder at high Reynolds number

Chengxu Tu, Jian Zhang

Experiments to investigate the characteristic distribution of nanoparticle-laden gas flow around a circular cylinder were performed with a fast mobility particle spectrometer. The…

Analysis of orientation and tensor properties of airborne fibrous particle flow

Ke Sun, Lin Lu, Yu Jiang

– The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of particle shapes (spherical particle and nonspherical fiber) on their orientation distributions in indoor environment.

Study on the evolution of nanoparticle size distribution due to continuous injection using the sectional method

Liu Huijie, Yu Mingzhou, Yin Zhaoqin, Jiang Ying, Chen Miaogen

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate competitive effect of source strength and coagulation on the evolution of aerosol size distribution with a continuous source.

MHD natural convection flow in cavities filled with square solid blocks

Majid Ashouri, Mohammad Behshad Shafii, Hossein Rajabi Kokande

The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of magnetic field on natural convection inside the enclosures partially filled with conducting square solid obstacles. Also…

A general finite volume based numerical algorithm for hydrocarbon reservoir simulation using blackoil model

Mehdi Mosharaf Dehkordi, Mehrdad T. Manzari, H. Ghafouri, R. Fatehi

– The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed algorithm for simulating three-dimensional hydrocarbon reservoirs using the blackoil model.

Numerical simulation of flow through an eccentric annulus with heat transfer

Amit K. Chauhan, B.V.S.S.S. Prasad, B.S.V. Patnaik

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of narrow gap on the fluid flow and heat transfer through an eccentric annular region is numerically. Flow through an…

A finite element analysis on combined convection and conduction in a channel with a thick walled cavity

M.M. Rahman, Hakan Oztop, S. Mekhilef, R. Saidur, A. Chamkha, A. Ahsan, Khaled S. Al-Salem

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of thick wall parameters of a cavity on combined convection in a channel. In other words, conjugate heat transfer is solved.

A study of natural convection heat transfer in a nanofluid filled enclosure with elliptic inner cylinder

M. Sheikholeslami, R. Ellahi, Mohsan Hassan, Soheil Soleimani

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of natural convection heat transfer in a cold outer circular enclosure containing a hot inner elliptic circular cylinder. The…

Numerical investigation of natural convection in two enclosures separated by anisotropic solid wall

Amgad Salama, Mohamed El Amin, Shuyu Sun

The problem of natural convection in two cavities separated by an anisotropic central solid wall is considered numerically. When the thermal conductivity of the central wall is…

Natural convection inside a C-shaped nanofluid-filled enclosure with localized heat sources

M.A. Mansour, M.A. Bakeir, A. Chamkha

The purpose of this paper is to investigate natural convection fluid flow and heat transfer inside C-shaped enclosures filled with Cu-Water nanofluid numerically using the finite…