...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...

... of the obtained results by the LADM, the study has combined it with Padé approximation. Findings – Accuracy and efficiency of the presented method are illustrated and denoted through the tables and figures. Also the effects of the suction parameter λ and slip parameter K on the fluid velocity...

...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...

...Abdul Rahman Mohd Kasim; Zarith Sofiah Othman; Sharidan Shafie; Ioan Pop Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the Blasius flat plate with viscous dissipation in the presence of suction or injection effects in the boundary layer of a viscoelastic fluid. Design/methodology/approach...

...T. Hayat; M. Hussain; M. Awais; S. Obaidat Purpose – The boundary layer flow and heat transfer of second grade fluid in a region of the stagnation point over a stretching surface has been examined. Thermal-diffusion (Dufour) and diffusion-thermo (Soret) effects combined with melting heat transfer...

... behaviour of a spherical cloud and of the gravitational potential of a polytropic fluid at hydrostatic equilibrium. Design/methodology/approach In their work, the authors first review Emden's equation and its possible solutions using the Frobenius and power series methods; then, Adomian polynomials...

... convection 3D free‐convection problem Flow Fluids Convection In this study, an implicit scheme, accurate to the second order, for solving full Navier‐Stokes equations is developed and tested for three dimensional laminar thermal flow problems, using parallel algorithm for both momentum and energy...

...M.M. Rashidi; T. Hayat; M. Keimanesh; A.A. Hendi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the natural convection flow of an incompressible third grade fluid between two parallel plates. The basic equations governing the flow are reduced to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation...

...M. Saleem; A. Hossain; R.S.R. Gorla Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct a numerical study of the effect of magnetic field on thermocapillary convection of a two layered system of Newtonian fluids, confined in a rectangular cavity. The flow within the cavity is subject to the horizontal...

...Anwar Hossain; Rama Subba Reddy Gorla Purpose The paper's aim is to investigate the mixed convection flow of an electrically conducting and viscous incompressible fluid past an isothermal vertical surface with Joule heating in the presence of a uniform transverse magnetic field fixed relative...

...X. Li; N. Massarotti; P. Nithiarasu; Gaojie Liu; Zhaoli Guo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate, numerically, the effects of the Prandtl number on the mixing process in two‐dimensional Rayleigh‐Taylor instability of incompressible and miscible fluids. Design/methodology/approach...

...X. Li; N. Massarotti; P. Nithiarasu; Gregor Kosec; Božidar Šarler Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the solution of a highly nonlinear fluid dynamics in a low Prandtl number regime, typical for metal‐like materials, as defined in the call for contributions to a numerical benchmark...

... decomposition method Padé approximants Flow Fluids The HAM has been introduced and refined by Liao (1992) who has enunciated a definitive treatment of the method in his classical work (Liao, 2003). There are dedicated votaries of HAM, having applied the method to a wide variety of problems...

... This is the first paper devoted to the exploration of the optimized fin array in a forced convective channel, considering heat conduction in the fins and heat convection in the fluid simultaneously. Roman symbols A=dimensionless fin profile area (we/d^{2) b=depth}...

...Saikrishnan Ponnaiah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of non‐uniform double slot suction (injection) into a steady laminar boundary layer flow over a yawed cylinder when fluid properties such as viscosity and Prandtl number are inverse linear functions of temperature. Non...

...T. Javed; M. Sajid; Z. Abbas; N. Ali Purpose This paper looks into the rotating flow of an incompressible viscous fluid over an exponentially stretching continuous surface. The flow is governed by non‐linear partial differential equations. A non‐similar solution is developed after transforming...

...Nicola Massarotti; Perumal Nithiarasu; Adriano Tiribocchi; Antonio Piscitelli; Giuseppe Gonnella; Antonio Lamura Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present numerical results about phase separation of binary fluid mixtures quenched by contact with cold walls. Design/methodology/approach...

...Maryam Momeni; Naghmeh Jamshidi; Amin Barari; Ganji Domairry Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the flow and heat transfer of an incompressible homogeneous second‐grade fluid past a stretching sheet channel and employ the homotopy analysis method (HAM) to compute an approximation...

...Alok K. Majumdar; S.S. Ravindran Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a fast nonlinear solver for the prediction of transients in network flows. Design/methodology/approach Broyden method‐based nonlinear solvers are developed to solve the system of conservation equation for fluids...

..., magnetic or electric forces. Liquid crystals are anisotropic fluids that consist of rod or disc‐like organic molecules which tend to align themselves along a common axis in space known as the director, n (Stewart, 2004). There are many different types of liquid crystal states, depending upon the amount...