Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
4.7
3.5
Journals
Processes
Special Issues
Advances in CFD Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer
share announcement

Advances in CFD Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Processes and Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 13647

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Tathagata Acharya

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Physics and Engineering, California State University, Bakersfield, CA 93311, USA
Interests: fluid mechanics; thermodynamics; heat transfer
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a state-of-the-art technology used widely in engineering. CFD is very useful in convective heat transfer studies. CFD is effectively used to study both forced and natural convection. Additionally, CFD analysis of convective heat transfer finds its applications in various industries, such as construction, energy, petrochemical, aviation and aerospace, biomedical, and agriculture. Recent work in the area has also involved important topics such as fire-driven flows, assessment of building energy efficiency, and convective heat transfer associated with the urban canopy. This Special Issue on “Advances in CFD Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer” seeks high-quality manuscripts focusing on the latest and novel developments in this area. Topics include but are not limited to CFD studies on:

  • Building HVAC and energy efficiency;
  • Urban canopy and urban heat island (UHI) effect;
  • Heat dissipation and thermal management;
  • Fire-driven flows and heat transfer;
  • Pipeline heat transfer in petroleum engineering;
  • Boundary layer flows and heat transfer.

Dr. Tathagata Acharya
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • computational fluid dynamics
  • convection
  • boundary layer
  • fluid dynamics
  • Reynolds number
  • Rayleigh number
  • buoyancy

Published Papers (5 papers)

Download All Papers
Order results
Result details
Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

25 pages, 13796 KiB  
Article
MHD Williamson Nanofluid Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Past a Non-Linear Stretching Sheet Implanted in a Porous Medium: Effects of Heat Generation and Viscous Dissipation
by Amir Abbas, Mdi Begum Jeelani, Abeer S. Alnahdi and Asifa Ilyas
Processes 2022, 10(6), 1221; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/pr10061221 - 19 Jun 2022
Cited by 45 | Viewed by 2895
Abstract
The present study is carried out to examine the behavior of magnetohydrodynamic Williamson nanofluid flow and heat transfer over a non-linear stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium. In the current work, the influence of heat generation and viscous dissipation has been taken [...] Read more.
The present study is carried out to examine the behavior of magnetohydrodynamic Williamson nanofluid flow and heat transfer over a non-linear stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium. In the current work, the influence of heat generation and viscous dissipation has been taken into account. The considered phenomenon in the form of partial differential equations is transformed into ordinary differential equations by utilizing an appropriate similarity transformation. The reduced form is solved by using rigorous MATLAB built-in solver bvp4c. The numerical solutions for the velocity field, temperature field, and mass concentration along with the skin friction coefficient, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number are computed. The obtained solutions are shown in graphs and are discussed with physical reasoning. It is noted that by increasing Williamson fluid parameter W, the velocity decreases and concentration profile increases. It is deduced that increasing Eckert number Ec leads to a rise in temperature and mass concentration. It has been viewed that with the increment in heat generation parameter Q, the temperature field increases and concentration decreases. The results show that an increasing magnetic field parameter M leaves a decreasing trend in the velocity field and an increasing trend in the temperature field and concentration profile. The present results are compared with the existing solution which shows good agreement and endorses the validation of current solutions. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in CFD Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

28 pages, 11408 KiB  
Article
Darcy–Forchheimer Relation Influence on MHD Dissipative Third-Grade Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Porous Medium with Joule Heating Effects: A Numerical Approach
by Amir Abbas, Mdi Begum Jeelani and Nadiyah Hussain Alharthi
Processes 2022, 10(5), 906; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/pr10050906 - 4 May 2022
Cited by 22 | Viewed by 1991
Abstract
The current investigations are carried out to study the influence of the Darcy–Forchheimer relation on third-grade fluid flow and heat transfer over an angled exponentially stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium. In the current study, the applied magnetic field, Joule heating, thermaldiffusion, [...] Read more.
The current investigations are carried out to study the influence of the Darcy–Forchheimer relation on third-grade fluid flow and heat transfer over an angled exponentially stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium. In the current study, the applied magnetic field, Joule heating, thermaldiffusion, viscous dissipation, and diffusion-thermo effects are incorporated. The proposed model in terms of partial differential equations is transformed into ordinary differential equations using suitable similarity transformation. The reduced model is then solved numerically with the help of MATLAB built-in function bvp4c.The numerical solutions for velocity profile, temperature profile, and mass concentration under the effects of pertinent parameters involved in the model are determined and portrayed in graphical form. The graphical effects of the skin friction coefficient, the Nusselt number, and the Sherwood number are also shown. From the displayed results, we conclude that when the Joule heating parameter is enlarged, the velocity and the temperature of the fluid are increased. We observed that while enhancing the viscous dissipation parameter (Eckert number) the fluid’s velocity and temperature increase but decreases the mass concentration. By increasing the values of the thermal-diffusion parameter, the velocity distribution, the temperature field, and the mass concentration increase. When the diffusion–thermo parameter rises, the velocity field and the temperature distribution increase, and the reverse scenario is seen in the mass concentration. The results of the current study are compared with already published results, and a good agreement is noted to validate the current study. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in CFD Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

21 pages, 4391 KiB  
Article
Convective Heat and Mass Transfer in Third-Grade Fluid with Darcy–Forchheimer Relation in the Presence of Thermal-Diffusion and Diffusion-Thermo Effects over an Exponentially Inclined Stretching Sheet Surrounded by a Porous Medium: A CFD Study
by Amir Abbas, Ramsha Shafqat, Mdi Begum Jeelani and Nadiyah Hussain Alharthi
Processes 2022, 10(4), 776; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/pr10040776 - 15 Apr 2022
Cited by 29 | Viewed by 2288
Abstract
The current study aims to investigate the thermal-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects on heat and mass transfer in third-grade fluid with Darcy–Forchheimer relation impact over an exponentially inclined stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium. The proposed mechanism in terms non-linear and coupled partial [...] Read more.
The current study aims to investigate the thermal-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects on heat and mass transfer in third-grade fluid with Darcy–Forchheimer relation impact over an exponentially inclined stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium. The proposed mechanism in terms non-linear and coupled partial differential equations is reduced to set of ordinary differential equations by employing an appropriate similarity variable formulation. The reduced form of equations is solved by using the MATLAB built-in numerical solver bvp4c. The numerical results for unknown physical properties such as velocity profile, temperature field, and mass concentration along with their gradients such as the skin friction, the rate of heat transfer, and the rate of mass transfer at angle of inclination α=π/6 are obtained under the impact of material parameters that appear in the flow model. The solutions are displayed in forms of graphs as well as tables and are discussed with physical reasoning. From the demonstration of the graphical results, it is inferred that thermal-diffusion parameter Sr velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles are augmented. For the increasing magnitude of the diffusion-thermo parameter Df the fluid velocity and fluid temperature rise but the opposite trend in mass concentration is noted. The current results are compared with the available results in the existing literature, and there is good agreement between them that shows the validation of the present study. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in CFD Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

23 pages, 6611 KiB  
Article
Investigations of Middle-Caliber Anti-Aircraft Cannon Interior Ballistics including Heat Transfer Problem in Estimation of Critical Burst Length
by Bartosz Fikus, Alicja Dorochowicz, Zbigniew Surma, Jacek Kijewski, Zbigniew Leciejewski, Jakub Michalski and Radosław Trębiński
Processes 2022, 10(3), 607; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/pr10030607 - 20 Mar 2022
Cited by 7 | Viewed by 2428
Abstract
Numerical and experimental investigations of armament systems are an important part of modern design processes. The presented paper reports problems that were encountered on the theoretical analysis of the performance of 35 mm anti-aircraft cannon and the way in which they were solved. [...] Read more.
Numerical and experimental investigations of armament systems are an important part of modern design processes. The presented paper reports problems that were encountered on the theoretical analysis of the performance of 35 mm anti-aircraft cannon and the way in which they were solved. The first problem concerns the application of results of closed vessel tests of used propellant in interior ballistics simulations. The use of a nonstandard form of the gas generation rate equation solved this problem. The second problem concerned the assessment of projectile–barrel interaction. The barrel resistance was estimated making use of finite element analysis. The third problem arose from the need to determine the heat transfer from propellant gases to the barrel. The employed formula for the heat exchange coefficient and 2D modelling of the heat conduction in the barrel provided the solution. Selected elements of the theoretical model were validated by shooting range experiments and data provided by the ammunition producer. Using the considered approach, crucial ballistic parameters (maximum propellant gas pressure and muzzle velocity) were estimated with an error of less than 6.0%, without application of additional fitting coefficients. The numerical estimation of the barrel external surface temperature provided a relative discrepancy with the experimental data lower than 6% and enabled the estimation of the critical burst length, equal to 14 shots. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in CFD Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

13 pages, 19236 KiB  
Article
Effects of Albedo and Thermal Inertia on Pavement Surface Temperatures with Convective Boundary Conditions—A CFD Study
by Tathagata Acharya, Brooke Riehl and Alan Fuchs
Processes 2021, 9(11), 2078; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/pr9112078 - 19 Nov 2021
Cited by 10 | Viewed by 2985
Abstract
The urban heat island (UHI) effect increases the ambient temperatures in cities and alters the energy budget of building materials. Urban surfaces such as pavements and roofs absorb solar heat and re-emit it back into the atmosphere, contributing towards the UHI effect. Over [...] Read more.
The urban heat island (UHI) effect increases the ambient temperatures in cities and alters the energy budget of building materials. Urban surfaces such as pavements and roofs absorb solar heat and re-emit it back into the atmosphere, contributing towards the UHI effect. Over the past few decades, researchers have identified albedo and thermal inertia as two of the most significant thermal properties that influence pavement surface temperatures under a given solar load. However, published data for comparisons of albedo and thermal inertia are currently inadequate. This work focuses on asphalt and concrete as two important materials used in the construction of pavements. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses are performed on asphalt and concrete pavements with the same dimensions and under the same ambient conditions. Under given conditions, the pavement top surface temperature is evaluated with varying albedo and thermal inertia values. The results show that the asphalt surface temperatures are consistently higher than the concrete surface temperatures. Surface temperatures under solar load reduce with increasing albedo and thermal inertia values for both asphalt and concrete pavements. The CFD results show that increasing the albedo is more effective in reducing pavement surface temperatures than increasing the thermal inertia. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in CFD Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:
 
Displaying articles 1-5
Back to TopTop