International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 30 Issue 8

Comparison of multiphase models for computing shock-induced bubble collapse

Eric Goncalves Da Silva, Philippe Parnaudeau

The purpose of this paper is to quantify the relative importance of the multiphase model for the simulation of a gas bubble impacted by a normal…

Conjugate forced convection in a semi-cylindrical cavity with entropy generation

Oktay Çiçek, A. Cihat Baytaş

The aim of this paper is to investigate the conjugate forced convection in a semi-cylindrical cavity with air flow. Isotherms, streamlines, Bejan number and local entropy…

Numerical study on the effect of oxygen concentration on the piloted ignition of PMMA in reduced pressure atmospheres

Xuehui Wang, Tiannian Zhou, Qinpei Chen, Jian Wang

This study aims to investigate the controlling mechanisms of ambient oxygen and pressure on piloted ignition of solid combustibles under external…

Non-similar solution of Casson nanofluid with variable viscosity and variable thermal conductivity

Ankita Bisht, Rajesh Sharma

The purpose of this study is to provide a numerical investigation of Casson nanofluid along a vertical nonlinear stretching sheet with variable thermal conductivity and viscosity.

Modeling and numerical simulation for flow of hybrid nanofluid (SiO2/C3H8O2) and (MoS2/C3H8O2) with entropy optimization and variable viscosity

Muhammad Ijaz Khan, Sohail Ahmad Khan, Tasawar Hayat, Muhammad Waqas, Ahmed Alsaedi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the entropy optimization in magnetohydrodynamic hybrid nanomaterials flows toward a stretchable surface. The energy expression is…

Modal analysis of trailing edge cutback film cooling

Yuxi Luo, Fengbo Wen, Rui Hou, Shuai Wang, Songtao Wang, Zhongqi Wang

The purpose of this paper devoted to the application of modal analysis to analyze the flow structure of trailing edge cutback film cooling and the effects of vortex structure on…

Performance of the k-kL model for aerodynamics applications

Nikhil Kalkote, Ashutosh Kumar, Ashwani Assam, Vinayak Eswaran

The purpose of this paper is to study the predictability of the recently proposed length scale-based two-equation k-kL model for external aerodynamic flows such as those also…

Thermal response of cylindrical tissue induced by laser irradiation with experimental study

Aatef Hobiny, Ibrahim Abbas

The purpose of this paper is to provide a method for determining the numerical solutions of the thermal damage of cylindrical living tissues using hyperbolic bioheat model. Due to…

Magneto hydrodynamic convection in a nanofluid saturated enclosure with porous fins: Joint effects of MHD, nanoparticles, and porous morphology

Lei Wang, Yang Cai, Wei-Wei Wang, Run-Zhe Liu, Di Liu, Fu-Yun Zhao, Hanqing Wang

This paper aims to numerically investigate the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) convection heat transfer of nanofluid inside a differentially heated enclosure with various fin…

Effect of blade surface roughness on condensation process in a stator cascade

Xu Han, Xiangyu Liu, Yunyun Yuan, Zhonghe Han

The flow state of wet steam will affect the thermodynamic and aerodynamic characteristics of steam turbine. The purpose of this study is to effectively control the wetness losses…

Free convection of a hybrid nanofluid past a vertical plate embedded in a porous medium with anisotropic permeability

Aneela Bibi, Hang Xu, Qiang Sun, Ioan Pop, Qingkai Zhao

This study aims to carry out an analysis for flow and heat transfer of a new hybrid nanofluid over a vertical flat surface embedded in a saturated porous medium with anisotropic…

Thermomechanical response in a two-dimension porous medium subjected to thermal loading

Tareq Saeed, Ibrahim Abbas

The purposes of this study, a mathematical model of generalized thermoelastic theory subjected to thermal loading is presented to study the wave propagation in a two-dimensional…

Improving shell and tube heat exchanger thermohydraulic performance using combined baffle

Ali Akbar Abbasian Arani, Hamed Uosofvand

This paper aims to investigate the fluid flow and heat transfer of a laboratory shell and tube heat exchanger that are analyzed using computational fluid dynamic approach by…