Guest editorial
Article Type: Guest editorial From: International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Volume 26, Issue 2.
This special issue collects selected papers presented at the Third International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems (ThermaComp 2014, website: www.thermacomp.com) held in Lake Bled, Slovenia, between June 2 and 4, 2014. ThermaComp series aims at bringing together researchers interested in fundamental numerical methods for heat and fluid flow and those who use such methods to solve complex, real life applications.
In this second volume of the special issue, Mandal and Kalamkar present a split numerical calculation for pressure and convective terms in incompressible flows using artificial compressibility method. Hájek et al. introduce a novel formulation for convective heat transfer source terms in case of fluid flow through porous medium. Vušanovi and Voller propose a numerical model for alloy solidification using visual evaluation of predicted segregation images and by construction of cumulative distributive function (CDF) for measuring grid convergence. Ranganayakulu presents a numerical analysis for steady and transient state using CFD in compact plate-fin heat exchanger fins for generation of design data. Paul et al. report on a numerical investigation of thermal damage of tissues embedded with large blood vessels during plasmonic photo-thermal heating Bianco et al. present the radiative behaviour on metal foams using porosity with special attention to its effect on ligament shape. Sciacovelli and Verda discuss a CFD model for transient analysis of buoyancy driven fluid flow and heat transfer in latent heat thermal energy storage incorporating phase change behaviour. Santarelli et al. in their work on immersed boundary method for heat transfer deal with thermal boundary conditions. Manni et al. present a CFD analysis of the combustion process in biomass furnace, including the simulation of the combustion products. Chen et al. present a study on numerical heat transfer in blood vessels during laser treatment of port wine stain. Bevan and Nithiarasu propose a dual time stepping approach to eliminate first order error in fractional step methods for incompressible flow. Nowak and Laszczyk present a fully three dimensional bio-heat transfer model to compute the effects of neonate's brain cooling.
Professor Boidar Šarler
University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia and Institute of Metals and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Professor Nicola Massarotti
Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”, Napoli, Italy, and
Professor P. Nithiarasu
School of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
Acknowledgements
The editors thank the authors for accepting the invitation to contribute to this special issue with their informative work. The editors are grateful to Professor R.W. Lewis for continuing to support ThermaComp and giving the opportunity to edit this special issue.
References
Bevan, R.L.T. and Nithiarasu, P. (2016), “A dual time stepping approach to eliminate first order error in fractional step methods for incompressible flows”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 556-570
Bianco, N., Baillis, D., Cunsolo, S., Naso, V. and Oliviero, M. (2016), “Effects of ligaments shape on radiative heat transfer in metal foams”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 477-488
Chen, B., Li, D. and Wang, G.-X. (2016), “Computational investigation on thermal responses of blood vessels during laser treatment of port wine stain”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 534-555
Hájek, J., Jegla, Z. and Vondál, J. (2016), “New numerical treatment of source term in convective transfer of heat between fluid and porous solid matrix”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 409-426
Mandal, J.C. and Kalamkar, S.R. (2016), “Convective-pressure flux split algorithm for incompressible flow computation using artificial compressibility formulation”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 384-408
Manni, A., Cordiner, S., Mulone, V. and Rocco, V. (2016), “Biomass furnace study via 3D numerical modeling”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 515-533
Nowak, A.J. and Laszczyk, J.E. (2016), “Computational modelling of neonate's brain cooling”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 571-590
Paul, A., Das, S.K. and Narasimhan, A. (2016), “Investigation of thermal damage of tissues embedded with large blood vessels during plasmonic photo-thermal heating (PPTH)”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 461-476
Ranganayakulu, C. (2016), “Steady state and transient analysis of compact plate-fin heat exchanger fins for generation of design data using CFD”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 440-460
Santarelli, C., Kempe, T. and Fröhlich, J. (2016), “Immersed boundary methods for heat transfer”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 504-514
Sciacovelli, A. and Verda, V. (2016), “Second-law design of a latent heat thermal energy storage with branched fins”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 489-503
Vušanovi, I. and Voller, V.R. (2016), “Best practice for measuring grid convergence in numerical models of alloy solidification”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 427-439
