... accurately within single-phase linear stability solvers. Originality/value The Biot function for thermocapillary liquid bridges is derived from the full multiphase problem by a robust multi-stage fit procedure. The derived Biot function reproduces very well the theoretical boundary layer scalings...

... structures for maglev trains are selected, i.e. single-arch, double-arch and triple-arch maglev trains. The vortex structure, pressure of train surface, boundary layer, slipstream and aerodynamic forces of the maglev trains with different arch structures are compared by adopting improved delayed detached...

...Oskar Szulc; Piotr Doerffer; Pawel Flaszynski; Marianna Braza Purpose This paper aims to describe a proposal for an innovative method of normal shock wave–turbulent boundary layer interaction (SBLI) and shock-induced separation control. Design/methodology/approach The concept is based...

...-gradient boundary layer in the flow over a flat plate, continued with flow through minichannels with stationary walls, and finally, focused on the flow between corotating discs, pertaining each time to smooth and rough surfaces. Findings The limitations of the roughness models were highlighted, which...

...A.Z. Zaher; Khalid K. Ali; Kh. S. Mekheimer Purpose The study of the electro-osmotic forces (EOF) in the flow of the boundary layer has been a topic of interest in biomedical engineering and other engineering fields. The purpose of this paper is to develop an innovative mathematical model...

..., it is desirable to control the numerical diffusion of FVS schemes inside the boundary layer for improved accuracy in viscous flow computations. This study aims to develop a new methodology for controlling the numerical diffusion of FVS schemes for viscous flow computations with the help of a recently developed...

...Mohamad Mustaqim Junoh; Fadzilah Md Ali; Norihan Md Arifin; Norfifah Bachok; Ioan Pop Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the steady magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) boundary layer stagnation-point flow of an incompressible, viscous and electrically conducting fluid past a stretching...

...Fadzilah Md Ali; Kohilavani Naganthran; Roslinda Nazar; Ioan Pop Purpose This study aims to perform a stability analysis on a steady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mixed convection boundary-layer stagnation-point flow of an incompressible, viscous and electrically conducting fluid over a vertical flat...

... upstream the cavity and the height. The study is supposed to investigate boundary layer and acoustic wave parameters, and an attempt will be made to determine the correlation between the geometrical dimension and those parameters. Design/methodology/approach Analysis is conducted with the aim...

...Yang Zhang; Jianfeng Zou; Jiahua Xie; Xiaoyue Li; Zhenhai Ma; Yao Zheng Purpose When a reflected shock interacts with the boundary layer in a shock tube, the shock bifurcation occurs near the walls. Although the study of the shock bifurcation has been carried out by many researchers for several...

...Ruhaila Md Kasmani; S. Sivasankaran; M. Bhuvaneswari; Ahmed Kadhim Hussein Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the Soret and Dufour effects on the double-diffusive convective boundary layer flow of a nanofluid past a moving wedge in the presence of suction. Design/methodology...

...Ioan Pop; Kohilavani Naganthran; Roslinda Nazar; Anuar Ishak Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of vertical throughflow on the boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid driven by a permeable stretching/shrinking surface. Design/methodology/approach Similarity...

...Rohana Abdul Hamid; Roslinda Nazar; Ioan Pop Purpose The purpose of this paper is to numerically study the boundary layer problem for the case of two-dimensional flow of dusty fluid over a shrinking surface in the presence of the fluid suction at the surface. Design/methodology/approach...

...Ioan Pop; Siti Suzilliana Putri Mohamed Isa; Norihan M. Arifin; Roslinda Nazar; Norfifah Bachok; Fadzilah M. Ali Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theoretically study the problem of the unsteady boundary layer flow past a permeable curved stretching/shrinking surface in the presence...

...Ioan Pop; Natalia C. Roşca; Alin V. Roşca Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reinvestigate the problem of multiple similarity solutions of the two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic boundary-layer flow of an incompressible, viscous and electrically conducting fluid past a stretching/shrinking...

... three different types of nanoparticles, namely, Cu, Al₂O₃ and TiO₂. Design/methodology/approach – Similarity transformation is used to convert the system of boundary layer equations which are in the form of partial differential equations into a system of ordinary...

... is constant. Findings – The governing boundary layer equations are transformed to self-similar nonlinear ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations. Numerical results of the resulting equations are obtained using the function bvp4c from Matlab for different values of the governing...

...Sadia Siddiqa; M. Anwar Hossain; Suvash C Saha Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conduct a detailed investigation of the two-dimensional natural convection flow of a dusty fluid. Therefore, the incompressible boundary layer flow of a two-phase particulate suspension is investigated...

...Saleh M. Al-Harbi; F. S. Ibrahim Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study laminar two-dimensional unsteady mixed-convection boundary-layer flow of a viscous incompressible fluid past a symmetric wedge embedded in a porous medium in the presence of the first and second orders resistances...

... equations. The resulting non-linear system has been solved both analytically and numerically. Findings – The analysis shows that velocity, temperature and nanoparticle concentration profiles in the respective boundary layers depend on five parameters, namely unsteadiness parameter A, Brownian...