...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... In this study, eight‐node iso‐parametric brick elements and trilinear shape functions are used at each node N_i (i=1, 8). The flow of unsteady incompressible viscous fluid is governed by the continuity equation (Schlichting, 1968 ; Hirsch, 1990): Equation 1 the momentum (Navier‐Stokes...

...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...

.... Comparison of the present solutions is made with the results obtained by other applied methods and excellent agreement is noted. In this work a nonlinear ordinary differential equation arising due to boundary layer flow of a viscous fluid is analyzed for the approximate solution. By using ADM‐Padé...

...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...

... 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. Rong‐Hua Yeh can be contacted at: RHYeh@mail.nkmu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Heat...

...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...

... Finite differences Methods Crystals States of matter Fluids Liquid crystals are considered to be condensed matter that exhibit both properties of crystalline solids and simple liquids (de Gennes, 1974). The molecules arrange themselves in a crystal‐like manner, but flow like a liquid...