Walid Aich^a,c, Lioua Kolsi^a,d,*, Abdelkarim Aydi^e,f, Abdullah A.A.A Al-Rashed^b , Noureddine Ait Messaoudene^a , Mohamed Naceur Borjini^d

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.9, pp. 1-9, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.9.8

Abstract Numerical study of double-diffusive natural convection flow and entropy generation in 3D trapezoidal solar distiller was performed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In this research the flow, provoked by the interaction of chemical species diffusions and the thermal energy, is assumed to be laminar. Using potential vector-vorticity formulation in its three-dimensional form, the governing equations are formulated and solved by the numerical methodology based on the finite volume method. The main objective is to analyze the effects of buoyancy ratio for opposed temperature and concentration gradients and to focus the attention on three-dimensional aspects and generated entropy. The occurring heat… More >

S. M. Arifuzzaman^1,* , Md. Shakhaoath Khan² , Khan Enaet Hossain¹ , Md. Sirajul Islam³ , Sonia Akter³, Raju Roy¹

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.9, pp. 1-12, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.9.5

Abstract Present study concerned with the theoretical work with numerical investigation of MHD transient naturally convective and higher order chemically reactive viscoelastic fluid with nano-particle flow through a vertical porous stretching sheet with the effects of heat generation and radiation absorption. A boundary layer approximation is carried out to develop a flow model representing time dependent momentum, energy, and concentration equations. The governing model equations in partial differential equations (PDEs) form were transformed into a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODEs) by using non-similar technique. Explicit Finite Difference Method (EFDM) was employed by implementing an algorithm in Compaq Visual Fortran… More >

Nidhal Ben Khedher^a,b,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-7, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.28

Abstract A Three-dimensional unstructured control volume finite method is developed to simulate unsteady coupled heat and mass transfer phenomena that arise during convective drying of unsaturated porous media. In order to simulate 3D geometries, as application here the drying of clay brick portion, we developed a Fortran code based on 3D unstructured meshes generated by the free mesh generator Gmsh. Several simulation results are presented and depict the effect of the variability of heat and mass transfer coefficients. These simulations prove that only three-dimensional model is able to capture the effect of variability of heat and mass transfer coefficients. More >

Sanjib Sengupta^a,*, Amrit Karmakar^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-13, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.30

Abstract In this paper an analysis on heat and mass transfer is made to study magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mixed convective flow of an incompressible viscous fluid flowing past an inclined plate. A magnetic field of uniform strength is applied to the plate to influence the flow. Due to weak voltage differences caused by the very low polarization charges, the influence of electric field is considered to be neglected. Again large temperature gradient ensures cross diffusion effect like thermo-diffusion (Soret) in the field. The governed set of non-linear partial differential equations is solved by developing a multi-parameter asymptotic perturbation scheme. The influence of… More >

G. Dharmaiah^a,* , CH. Baby Rani^b , N. Vedavathi^c , K.S. Balamurugan^d

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-8, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.6

Abstract Analytical investigation is carried out to analyze the unsteady, two-dimensional, laminar, boundary layer flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting and heat absorbing fluid along a semi-infinite vertical permeable moving plate in the presence of Diffusion-thermo and radiation absorption effects. The set of ordinary differential equations are solved by using perturbation technique. The effects of the various fluid flow parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration fields with in the boundary layer have been analyzed with the help of graphs. Numerical values of local skin-friction coefficient, nusselt number and Sherwood number are tabulated. More >

P. Bala Anki Reddy^a , B. Mallikarjuna^b,*,K. Madhu Sudhan Reddy^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-10, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.5

Abstract In this paper, a mathematical model has been developed to analyze the double diffusive convective flow of Casson fluid over an inclined stretching sheet with Cattaneo-Christov Heat Flux model. The velocity slip is considered over the surface of the stretching sheet as well. The governing equations for the pertinent model are transformed into non-dimensional highly coupled nonlinear differential equations using similarity transformations. The implicit finite difference method is used to carry out the numerical results and presented the graphs for different values of the physical parameter, Casson fluid parameter, and thermal relation time parameter, chemical reaction parameter for the cases… More >

D. R. V. S. R. K. Sastry

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-7, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.3

Abstract The present paper investigates the combined effects of melting phenomenon and viscous dissipation over a steady incompressible mixed convection boundary layer fluid flow along a vertical plate. Radiation and double dispersion are also taken into consideration. Further effect of homogeneous chemical reaction of order ’n’ is studied over the non-Darcy porous plate. Continuum equations that characterize fluid flow are transformed to a set of non linear ordinary differential equations through a suitable similarity transformation. These equations are then solved by MATLAB ’bvp4c’ iterative programming method. As a matter of accuracy and validation, available results are compared with the present study… More >

Shina D. Oloniiju^† , Sicelo P. Goqo, Precious Sibanda

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.13, pp. 1-8, 2019, DOI:10.5098/hmt.13.19

Abstract In some recent studies, it has been suggested that non–Newtonian fluid flow can be modeled by a spatially non–local velocity, whose dynamics are described by a fractional derivative. In this study, we use the space fractional constitutive relation to model heat and mass transfer in a nanofluid. We present a numerically accurate algorithm for approximating solutions of the system of fractional ordinary differential equations describing the nanofluid flow. We present numerically stable differentiation matrices for both integer and fractional order derivatives defined by the one–sided Caputo derivative. The differentiation matrices are based on the series expansion of the unknown functions… More >

Yubing Li^a , Mo Yang^a,*, Jian Li^b , Zhiyun Wang^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.13, pp. 1-8, 2019, DOI:10.5098/hmt.13.11

Abstract Thermalsolutal convection induced by mass and heat source in horizontal cavity is investigated numerically based on SIMPLE algorithm with QUICK scheme. The high-concentration heat source is placed in the square cavity, and the cavity wall is low temperature and low concentration. The smoke is used as the diffusion medium, and the flow field, temperature and concentration of the fluid under different Rayleigh number, buoyancy ratio Nc, Soret numbers and Dufour numbers are analyzed systematically. Parameter study demonstrates that heat and mass transfer of thermosolutal convection are enhanced with increasing Rayleigh number or buoyancy ratio, and the couple-diffusive interaction has a… More >

Saddam Atteyia Mohammad^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.14, pp. 1-10, 2020, DOI:10.5098/hmt.14.7

Abstract An analysis was performed to study the effects of variable viscosity on steady, laminar, hydromagnetic simultaneous heat and mass transfer by mixed convection flow along a vertical cylinder embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium. The analysis was performed for the case of power-law variations of both the surface temperature and concentration. The viscosity of the fluid is assumed to be an inverse linear function of temperature. Certain transformations were employed to transform the governing differential equations to non-similar form. The transformed equations were solved numerically by finite difference method. The entire regime of mixed convection was studied. From this study… More >