...Suvash C. Saha Purpose The purpose of this paper is to numerically study thermo‐magnetic convection and heat transfer of paramagnetic fluid placed in a micro‐gravity condition (g≈0) and under a uniform vertical gradient magnetic field in an open square cavity with three cold sidewalls. Design...

... substances in the presence of the magnetic field changes. Design/methodology/approach This method was utilized for solving MHD natural convection in an open cavity while Hartmann number varies from 0 to 150 and Rayleigh number is considered at values of Ra=10³, 10⁴...

...Mamun Molla; Suvash C. Saha; M.A.I. Khan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss, with numerical simulations, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) natural convection laminar flow from an isothermal horizontal circular cylinder immersed in a fluid with viscosity proportional to a linear function...

...M.M. Rashidi; E. Erfani Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the thermal‐diffusion and diffusion‐thermo effects on combined heat and mass transfer of a steady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) convective and slip flow due to a rotating disk with viscous dissipation and Ohmic heating. The main...

...Mohammed Jami; Ahmed Mezrhab; Hassan Naji Purpose This paper attempts to deal with the presentation of a numerical investigation of the laminar‐free convective heat transfer in a square enclosure containing a solid cylinder located at an arbitrary position. Effects of the cylinder position...

...A. Mezrhab; H. Bouali; H. Amaoui; C. Abid Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the radiation‐natural convection interactions in a vertical divided vented channel. The effects of the surface emissivity, the vent opening position and size on the heat transfer and the flow structures inside...

...Mamun Molla; Anwar Hossain Purpose To investigate the effects of chemical reaction on natural convection heat and mass transfer from a sphere with temperature dependent viscosity. Design/methodology/approach The governing boundary layer equations are transformed into a non‐dimensional form...

...Hou Ping‐Li; Tao Wen‐Quan; Yu Mao‐Zheng Based on the normalized variable diagram, the weakness of the Gaskell and Lau's convective boundedness criterion (GL‐CBC) is revealed by numerical example. By careful consideration of the smoothness of the normalized variable variation pattern, more rigorous...

...A. Raji; M. Hasnaoui The interaction between mixed convection and thermal radiation in ventilated cavities with gray surfaces has been studied numerically using the Navier‐Stokes equations with the Boussinesq approximation. The effect of thermal radiation on streamlines and isotherms is shown...

...M. Naïmi; M. Hasnaoui; J.K. Platten Analytical and numerical studies are conducted for two‐dimensional steady‐state Marangoni convection of a non‐Newtonian power law fluid confined in a rectangular horizontal shallow cavity subjected to a horizontal temperature gradient between the two short...

...A. Raji; M. Hasnaoui Mixed convection heat transfer in ventilated cavities submitted to a constant heat flux has been numerically studied using the Navier‐Stokes equations with the Boussinesq approximation. Results in terms of streamlines and isotherms are produced for different values...