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 More >

AlemKarima^a,*, Sahel Djamel^b , Nemdili Ali^c, Ameur Houari^d

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-7, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.27

Abstract In the present paper, the effects of a new baffle design on the efficiency of a tubular heat exchanger are numerically investigated. It concerns butterfly baffles inserted in a cylindrical tube heat exchanger. We focus on the influence of the shape of baffles, the space between baffles (pitch ratio, PR) and the baffle size (i.e. the blockage ratio, BR) on the heat transfer and flow characteristics. Three geometrical configurations with different PRs are realized (PR = 1, 2 and 4) and five others with different blockage ratios (BR = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5). More >

Geniy V. Kuznetsov, Alexander E. Nee^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-9, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.26

Abstract This study deals with the numerical investigation of combined heat transfer via conduction, laminar natural convection, and surface radiation in a closed rectangular cavity with a radiant heating source. Unsteady two-dimensional equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation for complex heat transfer process under study were formulated in terms of the vorticity – stream function – temperature variables and solved by means of the finite difference method on a uniform grid. Developed numerical code was validated against two benchmark problems of convective and convective-radiative heat transfer. When analyzing complex heat transfer regularities, we varied the… 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 >

Gang Qiu^a , Mo Yang^a,*, Jin Wang^b , Yuwen Zhang^c

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-8, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.24

Abstract An unsteady numerical model for double-diffusive natural convection of low Prandtl number liquids with Soret and Dufour effects inside the horizontal cavity is developed. The thermosolutal model is solved numerically using the SIMPLE algorithm with QUICK scheme. The flow field, temperature and concentration distributions for different buoyancy ratios, Rayleigh numbers and aspect ratios under different Prandtl numbers are studied systematically. The results reveal that the flow structure develops from conduction-dominated to convection as buoyancy ratio increases under different Prandtl numbers. Heat transfer intensity keeps constant and mass transfer intensity grows slowly before a critical point More >

G. Vinod Kumar, R. V. M. S. S. Kiran Kumar^* , S. V. K. Varma

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-8, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.23

Abstract The steady boundary layer stagnation flow of a Casson fluid over a stretching sheet with slips boundary conditions in the presence of viscous dissipation, Joule heating and the first order destructive chemical reaction is analyzed. The governing flow problem is based on momentum equation, energy equation, and mass diffusion equation and these are further simplified with the help of similarity transformations. The reduced, resulting highly nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equations are solved using the Matlab bvp4c package. The effects of various parameters on the dimensionless velocity, temperature, and concentration as well as on the skin More >

S.R.R. Reddy^a , P. Bala Anki Reddy^a,*, S. Suneetha^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-10, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.22

Abstract Present work aims to investigate the blood stream in a permeable vessel in the presence of an external magnetic field with heat and mass transfer. The instability in the coupled flow and temperature fields is considered to be produced due to the time-dependent extending velocity and the surface temperature of the vessel. The non-uniform heat source/sink effects on a chemically responded blood stream and heat viscous. This study is of potential value in the clinical healing of cardiovascular disorders accompanied by accelerated circulation. The problem is treated mathematically by reducing it to a system of… More >

A.M. Rashad^a , A.J. Chamkha^b , B. Mallikarjuna^c,*, M.M.M. Abdou^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-8, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.21

Abstract In this paper, the steady mixed bioconvection flow of a nanofluid containing gyrotactic microorganisms past a vertical slender cylinder is studied. The passively controlled nanofluid model is applied to approximate this nano-bioconvection flow problem, which is believed to be physically more realistic than previously commonly used actively controlled nanofluid models. Using a suitable transformation, the nonlinear system of partial differential equations is converted into non-similar equations. These resulting equations are solved numerically using an accurate implicit finitedifference method. The present numerical results are compared with available data and are found in an excellent agreement. The… More >

R. Kalaivanan^a , B. Ganga^b , N. Vishnu Ganesh^c, A.K. Abdul Hakeem^a,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-9, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.20

Abstract The main aim of the present article is to investigate the elastic deformation effects on the boundary layer flow of an incompressible second grade twophase nanofluid model over a stretching surface in the presence of suction and partial slip boundary condition. The second grade nanofluid model with elastic deformation effects is investigated for the first time. The combined effects of elastic deformation, Brownian motion and thermophoresis are also analyzed for the first time. To analyses the heat transfer, heat and mass flux boundary conditions are considered. The governing boundary layer nonlinear partial differential equations are More >

Sanjib Sengupta^a,*, Amrit Karmakar^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-12, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.19

Abstract An exact analysis is made to study the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) free convective flow of an electrically conducting and chemically reacting Newtonian, incompressible, viscous fluid, flowing past an infinite vertical plate with combined heat and mass transfer. An inclined magnetic field of uniform strength is applied to the plate. As the value of the magnetic Reynolds number is of comparable order of magnitude, the effect of induced magnetic field is being considered and on the other hand due to weak voltage difference caused by the very low polarization charges, the influence of electric field is considered… More >