Amnart Boonloi^a, Withada Jedsadaratanachai^b,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.7, pp. 1-16, 2016, DOI:10.5098/hmt.7.22

Abstract The numerical investigations on flow structure, heat transfer characteristic and thermal performance in a circular tube heat exchanger with various shapes of winglet vortex generators are reported. The rectangular winglet vortex generators (RWVG), delta winglet vortex generators (DWVG) and curve winglet vortex generators (CWVG) are inserted in the middle of the test tube on both downstream and upstream arrangements. The effects of blockage ratios; BR = 0.1 – 0.3, with single pitch ratio (PR = 1) and flow attack angle (α = 30o) on thermal performance are studied for the Reynolds numbers; Re = 100 – 2000. The… More >

Ankit Kanor, R Manimaran^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.7, pp. 1-5, 2016, DOI:10.5098/hmt.7.25

Abstract One of the effective liquid cooling techniques for microelectronic devices is attaching micro channel heat sink to the inactive side of chip. A micro channel heat sink is a device that decreases temperature by flowing coolant through micro channels. The present study focuses on the conjugate heat transfer analyses for different cross-sections (trapezoidal, hexagonal, octagonal and circular).After present study is validated with the published result in the literature, the comparative study of parallel and counter flow configuration is performed. Different geometries are modeled using CATIA V5 software and simulated in ANSYS Fluent R14. From these More >

Meryem NAOUM¹, Mustapha EL ALAMI²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.12, No.2, pp. 56-68, 2016, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2016.012.056

Abstract A numerical study of mixed convection from a U-shaped channel is carried out. The flow is considered two dimensionnel. The inlet opening is adjusted in the right vertical part of the channel, while the outlet one is placed on the left vertical part. Navier–Stokes equations are solved using a control volume method and the SIMPLEC algorithm is considered for the treatment of pressure–velocity coupling. Special emphasis is given to detail the effect of the Reynolds and Rayleigh numbers on the heat transfer generated by mixed convection. The results are given for the parameters of control More >

Shunjie Liu^1,2, Yusheng Qin^1,*, Xianhong Wang^1,*, Fosong Wang¹

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 101-112, 2015, DOI:10.7569/JRM.2014.634140

Abstract Precursors with sharp crystalline transition temperature have attracted signifi cant attention in the fi eld of shape-memory materials; however, seldom have reports been related to amorphous ones with industrial application prospects. This study introduced a new family of amorphous CO₂ -based hydroxyl-telechelic three-armed oligo(carbonate-ether) triol (Triol) with controllable molecular weight (M_n) and carbonate unit content (CU), which was coupled with PEG and 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) to afford crosslinked polyurethanes (PU) networks with well-defi ned architecture. A crosslinking point was provided by Triol and PEG was used to afford networks some crystallinity. The resulting networks were characterized… More >

U. Hanoglu¹, B. Šarler^1,2,3

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.109-110, No.5, pp. 447-479, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.109.447

Abstract The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the use of the novel Local Radial Basis Function Collocation Method (LRBFCM) [Šarler and Vertnik (2006)] in an industrial coupled thermo-mechanical problem of hot shape rolling of steel. The physical concept of such a large deformation problem is based on a two dimensional traveling slice model [Glowacki (2005)], which assumes deformation and heat flow only in the perpendicular direction to rolling. The solution is performed based on strong formulation. Elliptic Node Generation (ENG) is applied to reposition the nodes over a slice when necessary in order to… More >

Mohammad Ilati¹, Mehdi Dehghan²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.109-110, No.4, pp. 325-360, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.109.325

Abstract In this paper, at first, a new combined shape function is proposed. Then, based on this shape function, the meshless local weak form method is applied to find the numerical solution of time-dependent non-linear Brusselator and Gierer- Meinhardt systems. The combined shape function inherits the properties of radial point interpolation (RPI), moving least squares (MLS) and moving Kriging (MK) shape functions and is controlled by control parameters, which take different values in the domain [0;1]. The combined shape function provides synchronic use of different shape functions and this leads to more flexibility in the used More >

H. T. Xiao^1,2,3, Y. Y. Xie^1,2, Z. Q. Yue⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.109-110, No.1, pp. 55-80, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.109.055

Abstract This paper examines the problem of a square-shaped crack embedded in a layered half-space whose external surface is subject to a uniform loading over a rectangular area. Two novel numerical methods and the superposition principle in fracture mechanics are employed for the analysis of the crack problem. The numerical methods are based on the fundamental solution of a multilayered elastic medium and are, respectively, applied to calculate the stress fields of layered halfspace without cracks and the discontinuous displacements of crack surfaces in layered halfspace. The stress intensity factor (SIF) values are calculated using discontinuous More >

V. Panchore¹, R. Ganguli², S. N. Omkar³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.108, No.4, pp. 215-237, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.108.215

Abstract A rotating Timoshenko beam free vibration problem is solved using the meshless local Petrov-Galerkin method. A locking-free shape function formulation is introduced with an improved radial basis function interpolation and the governing differential equations of the Timoshenko beam are used instead of the alternative formulation used by Cho and Atluri (2001). The locking-free approximation overcomes the problem of ill conditioning associated with the normal approximation. The radial basis functions satisfy the Kronercker delta property and make it easier to apply the essential boundary conditions. The mass matrix and the stiffness matrix are derived for the More >

Marjan Uddin^1,2, Hazrat Ali¹, Amjad Ali¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.107, No.6, pp. 463-479, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.107.463

Abstract This work explores the application of kernel based local meshless method for solving multi-dimensional wave equations in irregular domain. The method is tested for various types of boundary conditions in irregular shaped domain. The method is capable of solving multi-dimension large scaled problems in complex shaped domain. More >

Chia-Ming Fan^1,2, Yu-Kai Huang¹, Po-Wei Li¹, Ying-Te Lee¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.105, No.6, pp. 491-515, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.105.491

Abstract In this paper, the boundary knot method (BKM) is adopted for accurately analyzing two-dimensional Stokes flows, dominated by viscous force and pressure gradient force. The Stokes flows, which denoted the flow fields with extremely viscous fluid or with very small velocity, appear in various engineering applications, such that it is very important to develop an efficient and accurate numerical method to solve the Stokes equations. The BKM, which can avoid the controversial fictitious boundary for sources, is an integral-free boundary-type meshless method and its solutions are expressed as linear combinations of nonsingular general solutions for More >