...Na Li; Haipeng Zhang; Xin Zhou; Zhenyu Duan Purpose The main objective is to investigate the correlations among the unsteady flow, nonlinear aerodynamic damping, amplitude response and heat transfer characteristics of a piezoelectric fan under various spatial confinement conditions. Design...

... capability was demonstrated for various heat conduction problems. Therefore, this work will apply interpolation by RBFs augmented by polynomials (RBF + pol) as the interpolation function in the BEM for solving two-dimensional heat transfer problems. The accuracy and computational cost of the solutions...

...: These equations have many applications in control theory, thermoelasticity, heat conduction processes, population dynamics and biochemistry (Shidfar et al. (2009) and references therein). In the heat transfer context, u represents the temperature distribution and X(t) represents...

...Tianlun Huang; Zhiming Yang; Simian Diao; Zhigao Huang; Yun Zhang; Huamin Zhou Purpose This study aims to investigate the effects of different surface-to-jet velocity ratios (Rsj) on the flow structure and the heat transfer of the floatation nozzle under different ratios (h...

... on the heat transfer process has also been demonstrated using the meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) approach. Design/methodology/approach It is true that MLPG method is time-consuming and expensive in terms of man-hours, as it is in the developing stage, but with the advent of computationally fast new...

...(x) of u(x) is given as: Krishna Mohan Singh can be contacted at: singhfme@iitr.ac.in 28 11 2018 29 01 2019 12 02 2019 12 02 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Heat transfer MLPG method...

... similarity transforms, both in time and space. Findings An increase in absolute values of the permeability parameter results in an enhanced mass transfer rate at both the walls, while the rate of heat transfer also increases at the lower wall. Few graphs are also dedicated to see the behavior of Nusselt...

...Mehdi Bahiraei; Seyed Mostafa Hosseinalipour; Morteza Hangi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to attempt to investigate the particle migration effects on nanofluid heat transfer considering Brownian and thermophoretic forces. It also tries to develop a model for prediction of the convective...

...M. Sheikholeslami; H.R. Ashorynejad; A. Barari; Soheil Soleimani Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze hydromagnetic flow between two horizontal plates in a rotating system. The bottom plate is a stretching sheet and the top one is a solid porous plate. Heat transfer in an electrically...

... between the local coordinate system resulting from the cylindrical properties of wood and the global one is evaluated. Selection of element type for temperature, moisture content and displacement is discussed. Keywords Coupling, Deformation, Finite element method, Flow, Heat transfer, Newton's...

... for nonlinear differential equations with boundary conditions at the infinity. Flow Convection Heat transfer Boundary layers Differential transform method Padé approximants Thermal‐diffusion Soret effect Because of the nonlinearities in the reduced differential equation, no analytical solution...

... with the amount of plastic strains. Zhenggang Zhu can be contacted at: zhu_zhenggang@daad‐alumni.de © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Numerical simulation Coupling Wood‐drying Finite element method Newton's method Heat transfer Flow Deformation Wood, as a highly ecological...

...Francisco Castro; Teresa Parra; César Quispe; Pilar Castro Purpose The paper aims to focus on airflow and heat transfer inside the human nasal cavity. The contribution of this work is the inertial analysis of the momentum and thermal stress of the cavity throughout the respiratory cycle. Design...

... the effects of HP installation, variable thermal properties, generated heat flux and cutting speed. Design/methodology/approach The heat transfer equation used to predict cutting tool temperature is parabolic partial differential equation. Grid points including independent variables are initially formed...

...Mohamed Amine Moussaoui; Mohamed Jami; Ahmed Mezrhab; Hassan Naji Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the laminar flow and heat transfer characteristics in a two‐dimensional horizontal channel with two square blocks placed side‐by‐side using a numerical scheme based on a coupling...

...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...

... region. The typical values of pressure drop and temperature difference between the inlet and exit of cooling channel were 2.7 MPa and 67.38 K (standard case), respectively. Besides an optimal number of channels exist, and it is approximately 335, which can make the effect of heat transfer of cooling...

...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...

... to external EM heating by using the space‐dependent blood perfusion term in Pennes bio‐heat equation. Design/methodology/approach The bio‐heat transfer equation is parabolic partial differential equation. Grid points including independent variables are initially formed in solution of partial differential...

...Jun‐Jie Zhou; Wen‐Quan Tao Purpose To provide some heat transfer and friction factor results for fin‐and‐tube heat transfer surfaces which may be used in air conditioning industry. Design/methodology/approach Numerical simulation approach was adopted to compare the plain plate fin and three...