Jiacheng Dai¹, Jiegang Mou^{1, *}, Tao Liu¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.16, No.2, pp. 161-179, 2020, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2020.06613 - 21 April 2020

Abstract The automobile engine pump is an important part of the automobile cooling system, and has a direct influence on the engine performance. Based on the SST k-ω turbulence model, unsteady numerical simulation for an automobile engine pump with different tip clearances was carried out by Fluent. To study the flow field characteristics and pressure fluctuation, the characteristics of secondary flow distribution in volute are also analyzed. The result shows that the pressure fluctuation characteristics of the flow field show obvious periodic variation at different levels of tip clearances. The peak value of pressure fluctuation at… More >

Suvash C. Saha^1,*, Ali M. Sefidan², Atta Sojoudi³

Energy Engineering, Vol.117, No.1, pp. 1-17, 2020, DOI:10.32604/EE.2020.010418 - 28 February 2020

Abstract Free convection inside an attic enclosure in which sinusoidal heat flux applied on the inclined walls and a constant temperature applied on the base wall has been investigated numerically to demonstrate the primary flow characteristics and heat transfer within the attic enclosure over daily routine cycles. To solve the governing equations, the finite volume technique has been utilized. After performing the grid independency and time step size tests, the roles of Rayleigh number (Ra) and the attic aspect ratio (AR) on the unsteady flow structure and heat transfer phenomenon are explained for a constant Prandtl More >

Weihua Fang¹, Zhilin An², Tiantang Yu^{2, *}, Tinh Quoc Bui^{3, 4, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 929-962, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.05022

Abstract Numerical analysis of unsteady heat transfer problems with complex geometries by the isogeometric boundary element method (IGABEM) is presented. The IGABEM possesses many desirable merits and features, for instance, (a) exactly represented arbitrarily complex geometries, and higher-order continuity due to nonuniform rational B-splines (NURBS) shape functions; (b) using NURBS for both field approximation and geometric description; (c) directly utilizing geometry data from computer-aided design (CAD); and (d) only boundary discretization. The formulation of IGABEM for unsteady heat transfer is derived. The domain discretization in terms of IGABEM for unsteady heat transfer is required as that More >

Elyazid Flilihi, Mohammed Sriti, Driss Achemlal

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.12, pp. 1-10, 2019, DOI:10.5098/hmt.12.12

Abstract A numerical investigation is performed to analyze the transient laminar free convection over an isothermal inclined plate embedded in a saturated porous medium with the viscous dissipation effects. The flow in the porous medium is modeled with the Darcy-Brinkman- Forchheimer model, taking into account the convective term. The dimensionless nonlinear partial differential equations are solved numerically using an explicit finite difference method. The effects of different parameters: (1 ≤ Re ≤ 10 ; 10⁻² ≤ Da ≤ 10 ; 0 ≤ Gr ≤ 50 ; 0 ≤ F r ≤ 3 ; 0 ≤ Ec ≤ More >

Jilin Zhang^1,4,5, Xuechao Liu^1,5, Jian Wan^2,1,5, Yongjian Ren^1,5, Binglin Xu^1,5, Jianfan He^1,5, Yuchen Fan^1,5, Li Zhou^1,5, Zhenguo Wei⁶, Juncong Zhang⁶, Jue Wang³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.25, No.3, pp. 527-546, 2019, DOI:10.31209/2019.100000109

Abstract A numerical optimization algorithm for unsteady flows of rotor based on web service is proposed. Space discretization uses the finite volume method, time discretization uses the implicit dual-time steps method, and turbulence model uses the Spalart–Allmaras (S–A) model. In order to efficiently use the computing resources of the cluster, a service-oriented service computing architecture is used in a parallel computing service program. In order to realize the load balance of hybrid grid partition, the grid is partitioned by Metis Library. Meanwhile, data communication based on Message Passing Interface (MPI) technology guarantees the consistency of convergence More >

S . Samantha Kumari^1,*, G. Sankara Sekhar Raju²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.15, No.5, pp. 471-489, 2019, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2019.04222

Abstract This paper investigates the chemical reaction and thermal radiation effects on unsteady MHD free convective flow past a vertical porous plate in the presence of heat absorption/generation. The novelty of present investigation is that the temperature and concentration of the plate are span wise cosinusoidally unsteady with time. The second order perturbation technique is employed to study the non-linear partial differential equations which govern the fluid flow. The effects of magnetic parameter, radiation, Eckert number, Schmidt number and chemical reaction parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration distributions as well as skin friction coefficients, the rate More >

Sacia Kachi^1,*, Fatima-zohra Bensouici¹, Nawel Ferroudj¹, Saadoun Boudebous²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.15, No.2, pp. 89-105, 2019, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2019.00263

Abstract The objective of the present study is to analyze the laminar mixed convection in a square cavity with moving cooled vertical sidewalls. A constant flux heat source with relative length l is placed in the center of the lower wall while all the other horizontal sides of the cavity are considered adiabatic. The numerical method is based on a finite difference technique where the spatial partial derivatives appearing in the governing equations are discretized using a high order scheme, and time advance is dealt with by a fourth order Runge Kutta method. The Richardson number (Ri), More >

S.P. Samrat, C. Sulochana^* , G.P. Ashwinkumar

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-8, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.31

Abstract This study reports the flow, thermal and concentration attributes of magnetic-nanofluids past an elongated plate with thermal radiation and chemical reaction. The flow considered is two-dimensional and time-dependent. The pressure gradient and ohmic heating terms are neglected in this analysis. The flow governing PDEs are transformed into ODEs using appropriate conversions. Further, the set of ODEs are solved analytically using perturbation technique. The flow quantities such as velocity, thermal and concentration fields are discussed under the influence of various pertinent parameters namely volume fraction of nanoparticle, magnetic field, stretching parameter, Soret number, radiation and chemical More >

Jadav Konch^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-10, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.29

Abstract Soret and Dufour effects on the unsteady flow of a viscous incompressible dusty fluid past an exponentially accelerated vertical plate with viscous dissipation have been considered in the presence of heat source and magnetic field. The viscosity and thermal conductivity of the fluid are assumed to be varying with respect to temperature. Saffman model of dusty fluid is considered for the investigation. The non-linear partial differential equations with prescribed boundary conditions governing the flow are discretized using Crank-Nicolson formula and the resulting finite difference equations are solved by an iterative scheme based on the Gauss-Seidel… More >

K. Venkateswara Raju^a,*, A. Parandhama^a , M.C. Raju^b , K. Ramesh Babu^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-8, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.25

Abstract This manuscript presents an analytical investigation on unsteady MHD free convective viscous incompressible flow of electrically conducting Jeffery fluid with heat source, past an infinite vertical porous flat plate in slip flow regime. A uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the plate is applied. The presence of thermal radiation, heat source, radiation absorption and chemical reaction are included. The effects of flow parameters and thermo physical properties on the velocity temperature and concentration fields across the boundary layer are investigated. The forms of the wall Shear stress, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are derived. The results More >