...Chuanbao Nie; Bowen Fu; Qiang Gao Purpose This paper aims to develop an efficient numerical method for nonlinear transient heat conduction problems with local radiation boundary conditions and nonlinear heat sources. Design/methodology/approach Based on the physical characteristic...

...Shou-Fu Tian; Xiao-Fei Wang; Tian-Tian Zhang; Wang-Hua Qiu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the stability analysis and optical solitary wave solutions of a (2 + 1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which are derived from a multicomponent plasma with nonextensive distribution...

...Iskandar Waini; Anuar Ishak; Ioan Pop Purpose This paper aims to investigate the steady flow and heat transfer of a Cu-Al₂O₃/water hybrid nanofluid over a nonlinear permeable stretching/shrinking surface with radiation effects. The surface velocity condition is assumed...

...Sheng Zhang; Bin Cai; Bo Xu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analytically solve the (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear time fractional biological population model in the Caputo sense. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the variable separation method and the properties of Gamma...

... (-) Ri Richardson number (-) T temperature (K) Dr Hakan Oztop can be contacted at: hfoztop1@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Combined convection Conjugate heat transfer Nonlinear Open channel D dimensional thickness of solid wall (m...