International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 29 Issue 1

Darcy–Forchheimer flow of nanofluid due to a curved stretching surface

Rai Sajjad Saif, T. Hayat, R. Ellahi, Taseer Muhammad, A. Alsaedi

The purpose of present communication is to analyze Darcy–Forchheimer flow of viscous nanofluid by curved stretchable surface. Flow in porous medium is characterized by…

Lattice Boltzmann method for nanofluid flow and heat transfer in a curve-ended T-shaped heat exchanger

Alireza Rahimi, Hesam Bakhshi, Ali Dehghan Saee, Abbas Kasaeipoor, Emad Hasani Malekshah

The study aims to study the nanofluid flow and heat transfer in a T-shaped heat exchanger. For the numerical simulations, the lattice Boltzmann method is used.

Natural convection of Bingham fluids in rectangular cross-sectional cylindrical annuli with differentially heated vertical walls

Sahin Yigit, Nilanjan Chakraborty

This paper aims to numerically analyse natural convection of yield stress fluids in rectangular cross-sectional cylindrical annular enclosures. The laminar steady-state…

Electro-thermo-convection in dielectric liquid subjected to partial unipolar injection between two eccentric cylinders

Mohamed Issam Elkhazen, Walid Hassen, Hakan F. Öztop, Lioua Kolsi, Abdullah A.A.A. Al-Rashed, Mohamed Naceur Borjini, Mohamed E. Ali

The purpose of this work is to highlight the effects of partial unipolar injection on electro-thermo-convection (ETC) in dielectric liquid contained between two eccentric…

A comparative study of explicit high-resolution schemes for compositional simulations

Mojtaba Moshiri, Mehrdad T. Manzari

This paper aims to numerically study the compositional flow of two- and three-phase fluids in one-dimensional porous media and to make a comparison between several upwind and…

Efficient numerical treatment of nonlinearities in the advection–diffusion–reaction equations

Utku Erdogan, Murat Sari, Huseyin Kocak

The purpose of this study is to propose a non-classical method to obtain efficient and accurate numerical solutions of the advection–diffusion–reaction equations.

Investigation of heat transfer in one-dimensional models of polymeric foams by using a ray-splitting and tracing technique

Ajay Kumar Chhabra, Prabal Talukdar

This paper aims to develop a numerical model to investigate coupled conduction radiation heat transfer in a multilayer semi-transparent polymeric foam.

Identification of conductivity in inhomogeneous orthotropic media

Mohammed Shuker Mahmood, D. Lesnic

The purpose of this paper is to solve numerically the identification of the thermal conductivity of an inhomogeneous and possibly anisotropic medium from interior/internal…

Effect of thickness and thermal conductivity of metal foams filled in a vertical channel – a numerical study

Banjara Kotresha, N. Gnanasekaran

This paper aims to discuss about the two-dimensional numerical simulations of fluid flow and heat transfer through high thermal conductivity metal foams filled in a vertical…

On the application of passive flow control for cavitation suppression in torque converter stator

Cheng Liu, Wei Wei, Qingdong Yan, Brian K. Weaver, Houston G. Wood

The purpose of this paper is to study the transient cavitation process in torque converters with a particular focus on cavitation suppression with a passive flow control technique.

Effect of hot obstacle position on natural convection heat transfer of MWCNTs-water nanofluid in U-shaped enclosure using lattice Boltzmann method

Yuan Ma, Rasul Mohebbi, Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi, Zhigang Yang

This paper aims to numerically investigate the natural convection heat transfer of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)-water nanofluid in U-shaped enclosure equipped with a hot…

Numerical investigation of aspect ratio influences on Rayleigh–Bénard convection of Bingham fluids in vertical cylindrical annuli

Sahin Yigit, Nilanjan Chakraborty

This paper aims to conduct numerical simulations to investigate steady-state laminar Rayleigh–Bénard convection of yield stress fluids obeying Bingham model in rectangular…

Natural convective cooling of electronics contained in tilted hemispherical enclosure filled with a porous medium saturated by water-copper nanofluid

Abderrahmane Baïri, Jean-Gabriel Bauzin, Alexander Martín-Garín, Nacim Alilat, José Antonio Millán-García

The purpose of this study is to determine the thermal behavior of a hemispherical electronic device contained in a concentric hemispherical enclosure, cooled by means of free…

Nanoparticle transportation of CuO-H2O nanofluid in a porous semi annulus due to Lorentz forces

M. Sheikholeslami, Hakan F. Öztop, Nidal Abu-Hamdeh, Zhixiong Li

The purpose of this paper is to research on CuO-water nanofluid Non-Darcy flow because of magnetic field. Porous cavity has circular heat source and filled with nanofluid. Lattice…

Analysis of makeup air in a natural smoke vent system in a tall space using numerical simulation and Schlieren technique

ChiaYuan Shih, YaoHan Chen, ChungHwei Su, ShiuanCheng Wang, YungChang Yang

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon of makeup effect using numerical simulation and model experiments on seven different natural smoke extraction patterns of…

Numerical investigation of laminar forced convection for a non-Newtonian nanofluids flowing inside an elliptical duct under convective boundary condition

Haroun Ragueb, Kacem Mansouri

The purpose of this study is to investigate the thermal response of the laminar non-Newtonian fluid flow in elliptical duct subjected to a third-kind boundary condition with a…

Lattice Boltzmann simulation of 3D natural convection in a cuboid filled with KKL-model predicted nanofluid using Dual-MRT model

Alireza Rahimi, Abbas Kasaeipoor, Emad Hasani Malekshah, Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi, Abimanyu Purusothaman

This study aims to investigate the three-dimensional natural convection and entropy generation in a cuboid enclosure filled with CuO-water nanofluid.

Influences of secondary flow induced by Coriolis forces and angled ribs on heat transfer in a rotating channel

Seyyed Mostafa Hoseinalipour, Hamidreza Shahbazian, Bengt Ake Sunden

The study aims to focus on rotation effects on a ribbed channel of gas turbine blades for internal cooling. The combination and interaction between secondary flows generated by…

Investigation of heat transfer in irregular porous cavity subjected to various boundary conditions

Irfan Anjum Badruddin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the heat transfer in an arbitrary cavity filled with porous medium. The geometry of the cavity is such that an isothermal heating…

Effects of dissolved solute on unsteady double-diffusive mixed convective flow of a Buongiorno’s two-component nonhomogeneous nanofluid

Davood Aliakbarzadeh Kashani, Saeed Dinarvand, Ioan Pop, Tasawar Hayat

The purpose of this paper is to numerically study the unsteady double-diffusive mixed convective stagnation-point flow of a water-based nanofluid accompanied with one salt past a…