International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 7 Issue 6

Numerical study of the wall shear stress produced by the impingement of a plane turbulent jet on a plate

M. Bouainouche, N. Bourabaa, B. Desmet

The present investigation has been carried out in the framework of the numerical studies of the wall function influence on the calculation of wall shear stress. This shear stress…

Non‐convergence versus non‐conservation in effective heat capacity methods for phase change problems

Zhen‐Xiang Gong, Arun S. Mujumdar

In the original effective heat capacity method the latent heat effect is approximated by a large effective heat capacity over a small temperature range. This method is simple in…

Natural convection in interacting cavities heated from below

A. Raji, M. Hasnaoui, Z. Zrikem

Heat transfer by natural convection in a system formed by two and three cavities heated from below and covered by a cold plate is numerically studied using the Navier‐Stokes…

Mixed convection in non‐Newtonian fluids along a vertical plate in porous media with surface mass transfer

Rama Subba Reddy Gorla, A. Slaouti, H.S. Takhar

Presents a non‐similar boundary layer analysis for the problem of mixed convection in power‐law type non‐Newtonian fluids along an isothermal vertical plate with surface mass…

A one‐dimensional finite element simulation for the fire‐performance of GRP panels for offshore structures

M.R.E. Looyeh, P. Bettess, A.G. Gibson

A one‐dimensional finite element model, associated with a computer code, has been developed to simulate the thermal response of a decomposing glass‐fibre reinforced composite…