...Basanta Kumar Rana This work reports a numerical study on mixed convection flows around a swirling spherical shaped open vessel in air within the laminar regime. This investigation is quite important and relevant in various industrial operations like centrifugal casting, formation of shield...

...Hojjat Khozeymeh-Nezhad; Yaser Basati; Hamid Niazmand In this paper for the first time, a Lattice Boltzmann Simulation is performed to analyze the simultaneous effects of a hot rotating elliptic cylinder and the magnetic field on the mixed convection flow in a square enclosure. Complicated flow...

...Hasib Ahmed Prince; Didarul Ahasan Redwan; Enamul Hasan Rozin; Sudipta Saha; Mohammad Arif Hasan Mamun In this study, a numerical investigation on mixed convection inside a trapezoidal cavity with a pair of rotating cylinders has been conducted. Three different power-law fluid indexes (n = 1.4, 1.0...

...Shashi Prabha Gogate S.; Bharathi M. C.; Ramesh B. Kudenatti This paper studies the local thermal nonequilibrium (LTNE) model for two-dimensional mixed convection boundary-layer flow over a wedge, which is embedded in a porous medium in the presence of radiation and viscous dissipation...

...Basanta Kumar Rana; Jnana Ranjan Senapati An objective function combining the first and second laws of thermodynamics has been employed to delineate the thermodynamic performance on mixed convection around a vertical hollow, rotating cylinder within the laminar range with the variation of Rayleigh...

...Basanta Kumar Rana; Bhajneet Singh; Jnana Ranjan Senapati Numerical investigations are performed on natural and mixed convection around stationary and rotating vertical heated hollow cylinder with negligible wall thickness suspended in the air. The fluid flow and heat transfer characterization...

...Vijayalakshmi Yerramalle; B. Premachandran; Prabal Talukdar Mixed convection heat transfer in a channel filled with porous medium and containing an isolated heat source at the bottom wall is studied in this work. The porous medium is assumed to be made of circular cylinders and is placed only...

...Hayder A. Dhahad; Gazy F. Al-Sumaily; Laith J. Habeeb; Mark C. Thompson Mixed convection heat transfer in a vertically oriented air-cooled square enclosure is simulated numerically using the finite volume method. The vertical left wall being heated and all others are considered insulated...

...Muneer A. Ismael; Ahmed Kadhim Hussein; Fateh Mebarek-Oudina; Lioua Kolsi The mixed convection in an open trapezoidal lid-driven cavity connected with a channel is investigated in the present paper. Four different cases were considered depending on the movement of the cavity sidewalls. For case I...

...S. Dutta; S. Bhattacharyya; I. Pop A numerical study on the mixed convection of Al 2 O 3 –water nanofluid in a lid-driven inclined square enclosure partially heated from below is performed based on Buongiorno's two phase model. The velocity of the nanoparticles relative to the base fluid...

...Prasheel Nakate; Banjara Kotresha; N. Gnanasekaran In this work, a solution technique is proposed by synergistically combining asymptotics and computational fluid dynamics to ascertain a problem of laminar mixed convection heat transfer in a vertical channel. First, numerical simulation is carried...

... of various flow parameters on entropy, Bejan number, velocity, temperature, Nusselt number, and skin friction is discussed through graphs and tables. Axial velocity decays for higher nonlinear mixed convection variable of temperature and velocity slip parameter. Temperature rises for larger thermal slip...

...Khaled Khodary Esmaeil; Gamal I. Sultan; Fahad A. Al-Mufadi; Radwan A. Almasri Mixed convection heat transfer characteristics from heat source located symmetrically inside square enclosure and cooled by Al 2 O 3 /water-based nanofluid flow was experimentally investigated. The configuration...

...Norma A. Rodríguez; J. F. Hinojosa; J. Xamán 01 10 2013 14 01 2015 10 02 2015 Experimental and numerical results of heat transfer by mixed convection in a ventilated cavity are presented. The results were obtained for a 1.0 m × 1.0 m × 1.0 m cavity. The inlet and outlet...

... quantities such as wall friction and Nusselt number are in detail discussed for the TiO 2 -water nanofluid. inclined channel flow reversal nanofluids mixed convection Studies of mixed convection flow through a channel [ 1–5 ] are common interests in many engineering applications. Several...

... are conducted in a low speed horizontal wind tunnel under mixed convection for five discrete heat sources (aluminum) of nonidentical sizes arranged at different positions on a substrate board (bakelite) to determine the optimal configuration. The optimal configuration is one for which the maximum temperature...

.... Assoc. Editor: Giulio Lorenzini. 22 06 2013 02 01 2014 The entropy generation due to mixed convective heat transfer of nanofluids past a rotating circular cylinder placed in a uniform cross stream is investigated via streamline upwind Petrov–Galerkin based finite element method...

... h * ∫ ∫ A * u * d A * The present investigation is devoted to the fully developed slip flow mixed convection in vertical microducts of two different cross sections, namely, polygon, with circle as a limiting case, and rectangle. The two axially...

... number (Nu) calculation in forced convection has been extensively investigated in literature, and several numerical correlations have been developed. By contrast, numerical correlations for Nu prediction in mixed convection are scarce. When it is considered in this context, the present model is useful...

.... Editor: Giulio Lorenzini. 21 01 2013 13 05 2013 An exact similarity solution of the steady mixed convection flow of a viscous and incompressible fluid in the vicinity of two-dimensional stagnation-point with a second-order slip condition has been investigated. Using appropriate...