International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 28 Issue 7

Hybrid solutions obtained via integral transforms for magnetohydrodynamic flow with heat transfer in parallel-plate channels

Fabio Andrade Pontes, Emanuel Negrão Macêdo, Clauderino da Silva Batista, João Alves de Lima, João Nazareno Nonato Quaresma

The purpose of this study is to show the procedure, application and main features of the hybrid numerical-analytical approach known as generalized integral transform technique by…

Heatlines visualization of convective heat flow during differential heating of porous enclosures with concave/convex side walls

Pratibha Biswal, Tanmay Basak

This paper is aimed to study natural convection in enclosures with curved (concave and convex) side walls for porous media via the heatline-based heat flow visualization approach.

Analytical and numerical approaches for Falkner–Skan flow of MHD Maxwell fluid using a non-Fourier heat flux model

S. Abbasbandy, M. Mustafa

This paper aims to describe the laminar flow of Maxwell fluid past a non-isothermal rigid plate with a stream wise pressure gradient. Heat transfer mechanism is analyzed in the…

Integral transform solution of natural convection in a cylinder cavity with uniform internal heat generation

Guangming Fu, Chen An, Jian Su

The purpose of this study is to propose the generalised integral transform technique to investigate the natural convection behaviour in a vertical cylinder under different…

A parallel finite element algorithm for nonstationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations

Qili Tang

The purpose of this paper is to design a parallel finite element (FE) algorithm based on fully overlapping domain decomposition for solving the nonstationary incompressible…

Thin film flow of an unsteady Maxwell fluid over a shrinking/stretching sheet with variable fluid properties

N. Faraz, Y. Khan

This paper aims to explore the variable properties of a flow inside the thin film of a unsteady Maxwell fluid and to analyze the effects of shrinking and stretching sheet.

Effects of two-phase nanofluid model on natural convection in a square cavity in the presence of an adiabatic inner block and magnetic field

Ammar I. Alsabery, Tahar Tayebi, Ali J. Chamkha, Ishak Hashim

The purpose of this paper is to study problem of conjugate MHD natural convection of Al₂O₃-water nanofluid in a square cavity with conductive inner block using Buongiorno’s…

Influence of rounded corners on flow interference between two tandem cylinders using FVM and IB-LBM

Ehsan Adeeb, Basharat Ali Haider, Chang Hyun Sohn

The purpose of this study is to numerically investigate the influence of corner radius on the flow around two square cylinders in tandem arrangements at a Reynolds number of 100.

Effects of different roughness elements on friction and pressure drop of laminar flow in microchannels

Fakhrodin Lalegani, Mohammad Reza Saffarian, Ahmadreza Moradi, Ebrahim Tavousi

According to very small dimensions of the microchannels, producing a microchannel with smooth surfaces is approximately impossible. The surface roughness can have a specific…

Numerical analysis on thermal performance of cooling plates with wavy channels in PEM fuel cells

Shian Li, Bengt Ake Sunden

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the thermal performance of the cooling plates with conventional straight channel and wavy channel designs.

Turbulent natural convection combined with surface thermal radiation in a square cavity with local heater

Igor Miroshnichenko, Mikhail Sheremet, Ali J. Chamkha

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a numerical analysis of transient turbulent natural convection combined with surface thermal radiation in a square cavity with a local…

Stagnation-point flow of an aqueous titania-copper hybrid nanofluid toward a wavy cylinder

Mohammad Yousefi, Saeed Dinarvand, Mohammad Eftekhari Yazdi, Ioan Pop

The purpose of this paper is to investigate analytically the steady general three-dimensional stagnation-point flow of an aqueous titania-copper hybrid nanofluid past a circular…