...Professor Božidar Šarler, Professor Nicola Massarotti and Professor P. Nithiarasu; Jiří Hájek; Tomáš Juřena Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report a novel formulation of convective heat transfer source term for the case of flow through porous medium. Design/methodology/approach...

...M. Moshiri; M.T. Manzari; S.K. Hannani; A. Rasouli Purpose – In this paper, the flow of multiphase fluids in a one-dimensional homogeneous porous media involving the gravity effects is numerically studied using the dominant wave method. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design...

...Sima Samadpoor; Hadi Roohani Ghehsareh; Saeid Abbasbandy Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to obtain semi-analytical solutions of similarity solutions for the nano boundary layer flows with Navier boundary condition. The similarity solutions of viscous flows over a two-dimensional stretching...

...S.A. Shehzad; M. Qasim; T. Hayat; M. Sajid; S. Obaidat Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the two-dimensional flow of Maxwell fluid with power law heat flux and heat source over a stretched surface. Design/methodology/approach – The governing partial differential...

...Imran Halimi Bin Ibrahim; Martin Skote Purpose For the past decade, plasma actuators have been identified as a subset in the realm of active flow control devices. As research into plasma actuators continues to mature, computational modelling is needed to complement the investigation...

..., that is, x=π. Emden's equation Power series Frobenius method Adomian polynomials Decomposition method Polynomials Fluids Flow Equation 15 Equation 16 Equation 17 Equation 18 Equation 19 Equation 20 Equation 21...

...M. Mustafaa; T. Hayat; S. Obaidat Purpose This paper aims to discuss the flow and heat transfer characteristics over an exponentially stretching sheet in a nanofluid with convective boundary conditions. The effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis are also accounted. Design/methodology...

...G. Revathi; P. Saikrishnan; A. Chamkha Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make an analysis to study the non‐similar solution for unsteady water boundary layer flow over sphere with the influence of temperature‐dependent viscosity, Prandtl number, non‐uniform surface mass transfer and heat...

... is the nozzle exit diameter). The aim is to verify two concepts of unified hybrid RANS/LES formulations, one of DES (Detached Eddy Simulation) type and one of LNS (Limited Number Scales) type in analysis of impinging jet flow and heat transfer. The grid resolution requirements are also discussed. Design...

...., 2007), nonlinear fractional equations (Odibat et al., 2010), nonlinear heat transfer equation (Abbasbandy, 2006), nanoboundary layer flows (Cheng et al., 2008), Chen system (Alomari et al., 2009), and other fields (Alomari et al., 2008 ; Wang et al., 2007...

...M. Ferdows; Jashim Uddin; Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi; N. Rahimzadehc Purpose The paper aims to consider non‐viscous, laminar mixed convection boundary‐layer flow over a horizontal moving porous flat plate, with chemical reaction. Design/methodology/approach The governing equations are expressed...

... for solving a non‐linear system two‐point boundary value problem (BVP) on semi‐infinite interval, describing the flow and diffusion of chemically reactive species over a nonlinearly stretching sheet immersed in a porous medium. The new approach reduces the solution of a problem to the solution of a system...

...Ö. Türk; M. Tezer‐Sezgin Purpose The purpose of the paper is to obtain finite element method (FEM) solution of steady, laminar, natural convection flow in inclined enclosures in the presence of an oblique magnetic field. The momentum equations include the magnetic effect, and the induced magnetic...

...P.M. Patil; Ali J. Chamkha Purpose The purpose of this work is to study heat and mass transfer from mixed convection flow of polar fluid along a plate in porous media with chemical reaction. Design/methodology/approach The governing equations for this problem are solved numerically...

... The goal is to investigate the effect of thermal radiation on thermal and flow characteristics of the cavity. The enclosure lower wall is at constant temperature and the upper wall is adiabatic while there are several discrete heat sources inside the cavity. In addition the effect of parameters...

... equation is solved implicitly. A fourth order artificial viscosity term is added. In order to stabilize the numerical solution, fourth order artificial viscosity term is used for high Reynolds number flows. The domain decomposition technique is implemented for parallel solution to the problem with matching...

...B.J. Gireesha; A.J. Chamkha; S. Manjunatha; C.S. Bagewadi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the problem of two‐dimensional unsteady mixed convective flow a dusty fluid over a stretching sheet in the presence of thermal radiation and space‐dependent heat source/sink. Design...

...Rachid Saim; Hamidou Benzenine; Hakan F. Öztop; Khaled Al‐Salem Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the turbulent fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics for rectangular channel provided with solid plate baffles which are arranged on the bottom and top channel walls...

...=relative velocity (m/s) Greek α=absolute flow angle (deg.) β=relative flow angle (deg.) γ=Cp/(Cp−R) heat capacity ratio, isentropic exponent η=efficiency (%) Re=ρ⊕V₂⊕C/μ mainstream...

...‐isothermal system is similar to that of the isothermal system. Originality/value This is the first time that the microstructures of both molecules and fibers are presented in the non‐isothermal condition and it is hoped that the results will provide more insight into the microscopics of complex flows...