International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 26 Issue 5

An accurate shock-capturing scheme based on rotated-hybrid Riemann solver: AUFSRR scheme

Ghislain Tchuen, Pascalin Tiam Kapen, Yves Burtschell

– The purpose of this paper is to present a new hybrid Euler flux fonction for use in a finite-volume Euler/Navier-Stokes code and adapted to compressible flow problems.

Computation of permeability with Fast Fourier Transform from 3-D digital images of porous microstructures

Hai Bang Ly, Vincent Monchiet, Daniel Grande

The purpose of this paper is to present a fully automated numerical tool for computing the effective permeability of porous media from digital images which come from the modern…

Towards numerical computation of double-diffusive natural convection within an eccentric horizontal cylindrical annulus

Chahinez Ghernoug, Mahfoud Djezzar, Hassane Naji, Abdelkarim Bouras

The purpose of this paper is to numerically study the double-diffusive natural convection within an eccentric horizontal cylindrical annulus filled with a Newtonian fluid. The…

Local entropy generation rate through convective heat transfer in tubes with wire coil inserts

Senda Agrebi, Juan P. Solano, Ali Snoussi, Ammar Ben Brahim

The purpose of this paper is to present a numerical analysis of the flow and heat transfer in a tube with a wire coil insert. A second law analysis of the results is accounted…

Multiscale subgrid models of large eddy simulation for turbulent flows

Jianying Jiao, Ye Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to propose three modified subgrid-scale (SGS) eddy-viscosity models to improve their original eddy-viscosity models (the Smagorinsky model (SM), the…

On the stationary and oscillatory modes of triply resonant penetrative convection

Akil Jassim Harfash, Ahmed K. Alshara

The purpose of this paper is to explore a model for thermal convection in a plane layer when the density-temperature relation in the buoyancy term is quadratic. A heat source/sink…

Magnetohydrodynamic effects on flow structures and heat transfer over two cylinders wrapped with a porous layer in side

Saman Rashidi, Javad Abolfazli Esfahani, Mohammad Sadegh Valipour, Masoud Bovand, Ioan Pop

The analysis of the flow field and heat transfer around a tube row or tube banks wrapped with porous layer have many related engineering applications. Examples include the reactor…

Numerical study of magnetohydrodynamics generalized Couette flow of Eyring-Powell fluid with heat transfer and slip condition

R Ellahi, E Shivanian, S Abbasbandy, T. Hayat

The purpose of this paper is to study the generalized Couette flow of Eyring-Powell fluid. The paper aims to discuss diverse issues befell for the heat transfer…

Free convective overall heat transfer coefficient on inclined electronic assembly with active QFN16 package

Abderrahmane Baïri

The purpose of this paper is to determine the overall free convective heat transfer coefficient for an assembly constituted by a Quad Flat Non-lead QFN16 welded on a Printed…

Mixed convection squeezing three-dimensional flow in a rotating channel filled with nanofluid

B Mahanthesh, B J Gireesha, R S R Gorla

The purpose of this paper is to numerically solve the problem of an unsteady squeezing three-dimensional flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid in rotating vertical channel of…

Flowfield dependent variation method: A numerical scheme for the solution of low- to high-Mach number flow problems

Bassem R Girgis, Sarma L Rani, Abdelkader Frendi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the computational features of the Flowfield Dependent Variation (FDV) method, a numerical scheme built to simulate flows characterized…

Symmetry group and numerical study of non-Newtonian nanofluid transport in a porous medium with multiple convective boundary and nonlinear radiation

Md. Jashim Uddin, O. Anwar Bég, Izani Md. Ismail

The purpose of this paper is to study two-dimensional nonlinear radiative-convective, steady-state boundary layer flow of non-Newtonian power-law nanofluids along a flat vertical…

Effects of magnetic field and viscous dissipation on entropy generation of mixed convection in porous lid-driven cavity with corner heater

Sameh E Ahmed, Hakan F. Öztop, Khaled Al-Salem

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of magnetic field and viscous dissipation on mixed convection heat transfer, fluid flow and entropy generation in a porous…

Numerical study of unsteady MHD Couette flow and heat transfer of nanofluids in a rotating system with convective cooling

Ahmada Omar Ali, Oluwole Daniel Makinde, Yaw Nkansah-Gyekye

The purpose of this paper is to investigate numerically the unsteady MHD Couette flow and heat transfer of viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting nanofluids between…

Effects of temperature-dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity on mixed convection flow along a magnetized vertical surface

Ashraf Muhammad, Ali J Chamkha, S Iqbal, Masud Ahmad

The purpose of this paper is to report a numerical solution for the problem of steady, two dimensional boundary layer buoyant flow on a vertical magnetized surface, when both the…

Utilizing the L-PSJA for controlling cylindrical wake flow

Martin Skote, Imran Halimi Ibrahim

The cylindrical wake flow is an important part of many engineering applications, including wake turbulence, acoustic noise, and lift/drag forces on bodies. The suppression of von…

Boundary layer flow over a moving plate in a flowing fluid considering non-linear radiations

Ammar Mushtaq, M. Mustafa, T. Hayat, A. Alsaedi

– The purpose of this paper is to consider a laminar two-dimensional incompressible flow of an electrically conducting fluid over a moving flat plate with a parallel free stream.