International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 33 Issue 10

Natural convection in a differentially heated cavity filled with a Brinkman bidisperse porous medium

Teodor Grosan, Flavius-Olimpiu Patrulescu, Ioan Pop

The purpose of this work is the study of the steady free convection in a square differentially heated cavity filled by a Brinkman bidisperse porous medium. An appropriate…

Multilevel method for predicting flow fields in radial turbines based on sparsity-promoting dynamic mode decomposition

Mingqiu Zheng, Chenxing Hu, Ce Yang

The purpose of this study is to propose a fast method for predicting flow fields with periodic behavior with verification in the context of a radial turbine to meet the urgent…

Minimization of exergy destruction with discrete metal foam filling in a pipe under turbulent flow condition

Kiran Kumar K, Kotresha Banjara, Kishan Naik

This study aims to present the numerical analysis of exergy transfer and irreversibility through the discrete filling of high-porosity aluminum metal foams inside the horizontal…

Cavitation characteristics and energy loss in high-pressure differential control valve

Haozhe Jin, Ruoshuang Wen, Chao Wang, Xiaofei Liu

The purpose of this study is to determine the cavitation flow characteristics of the high-pressure differential control valve. The relationship between cavitation, flow…

Study on CO2 transport in fractal porous media for a Hausdorff fractal derivative advection-dispersion model

Ailian Chang, Le Huang, Qian-Qian Li, Kambiz Vafai, Minglu Shao

The classical advection-dispersion equation (ADE) model cannot accurately depict the gas transport process in natural geological formations. This paper aims to study the behavior…

Numerical computation on MHD natural convective ternary nanofluid flow and heat transfer in a porous square cavity: Marker-and-cell technique

K. Thirumalaisamy, A. Subramanyam Reddy

The analysis of fluid flow and thermal transport performance inside the cavity has found numerous applications in various engineering fields, such as nuclear reactors and solar…

Analysis of melting of phase change material inserted a block via impinging turbulent slot jet

Hakan F. Oztop, Muhammed Gür, Fatih Selimefendigil, Hakan Coşanay

The purpose of this study is to do a numerical analysis of the jet to a body filled with phase change material (PCM). The melting of the PCM filled body was investigated by the…

Artificial neural network simulation and sensitivity analysis for optimal thermal transport of magnetic viscous fluid over shrinking wedge via RSM

A. Zeeshan, Muhammad Imran Khan, R. Ellahi, Zaheer Asghar

This study aims to model the important flow response quantities over a shrinking wedge with the help of response surface methodology (RSM) and an artificial neural network (ANN)…

Numerical study on thermal performance of cold plates with leaf type channels for lithium-ion batteries

Shian Li, Chongyang Wang, Qiuwan Shen, Yuanzhe Cheng, Chengdong Peng, Guogang Yang, Bengt Ake Sunden

The purpose of this study is to design a new type of cold plate to improve the thermal performance of liquid-cooled thermal management system of lithium-ion batteries.

Reflection at the free surface of the orthotropic piezo-hygro-thermo-elastic medium

Anand Kumar Yadav, M.S. Barak, Vipin Gupta

This paper aims to study the impact of pyro-electricity, moisture and temperature diffusivity on the energy distribution of plane waves at the free surface of an orthotropic…