American Journal of Applied Mathematics

Special Issue

Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Inside a Closed Domain

  • Submission Deadline: Dec. 20, 2014
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Litan Kumar Saha
About This Special Issue
Fluid flow and heat transfer is a burning issue in the field of applied mathematics and mechanical engineering because of its growing demand to achieve the state-of-the-art technology and improved performance in a wide range of engineering applications. A particular branch of this vast issue is the fluid flow and heat transfer in an enclosed domain. Conduction, convection and radiation are the different mode of heat transfer. Convective heat transfer is tightly coupled to the fluid flow solution. Flow and heat transfer phenomena caused by buoyancy and shear forces in enclosures have received considerable attention from researchers. Understanding of these two competing mechanisms is of great significance from both fundamental and practical standpoints. The thermal performance of enclosures has been a subject of interest for many years due to their ever increasing applications in lubrication technologies, heat exchangers for drying food, cooling of electronic devices, thermal insulation and fire propensity control in buildings, fluid dynamics in geothermal reservoirs and shallow wedge enclosures, food processing and nuclear reactors.

This special issue invites investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles on the most recent developments and research efforts in the field of fluid flow and heat transfer in an enclosed domain with a view to providing guidelines for future research directions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Conductive, convective and radiative heat transfer

Modeling and simulation for flow and heat transfer

Heat transfer enhancement by Nanofluids

Enclosed geometries with regular or irregular surfaces

Computational methods for flow and heat transfer

Flows influenced by external forces (e.g. gravitational, magnetic etc)
Lead Guest Editor
  • Litan Kumar Saha

    Department of Mathematics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Guest Editors
  • Mustafa Tutar

    Department of Mechanical and Manufacture, University of Mondragon, Mondragon, Spain

  • Samir K. Bhowmik

    Department of Mathematics, Al Imam Ibn Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Cheng See Yuan

    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology, Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, Malaysia

  • Sharanjeet Dhawan

    Department of Mathematics, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, India

Published Articles
  • Numerical Solutions of 2-D Incompressible Driven Cavity Flow with Wavy Bottom Surface

    K. M. Salah Uddin , Litan Kumar Saha

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1-1, January 2015
    Pages: 30-42
    Received: Nov. 15, 2014
    Accepted: Nov. 26, 2014
    Published: Dec. 27, 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajam.s.2015030101.14
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    Abstract: In the present numerical study is devoted to investigate the lid-driven cavity flow with wavy bottom surface. The cavity upper wall is moving with a uniform velocity by unity and the other walls are no-slip. The physical problem is represented mathematically by a set of governing equations and the developed mathematical model is solved by employing... Show More
  • Effect of Internal Heat Generation or Absorption on MHD Mixed Convection Flow in a Lid Driven Cavity

    Litan Kumar Saha , K. M. Salah Uddin , M. A. Taher

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1-1, January 2015
    Pages: 20-29
    Received: Nov. 11, 2014
    Accepted: Nov. 12, 2014
    Published: Nov. 29, 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajam.s.2015030101.13
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    Abstract: In the present study the problem of mixed convection flow in the presence of magnetic field in a lid-driven square cavity with internal heat generation or absorption and uniform heating of bottom wall were investigated numerically. The square cavity vertical walls are maintained at cold temperature while the upper wall is insulated. The physical pr... Show More
  • Hydro-Magnetic Mixed Convection Flow in a Lid-Driven Cavity with Wavy Bottom Surface

    Litan Kumar Saha , Monotos Chandra Somadder , Nepal Chandra Roy

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1-1, January 2015
    Pages: 8-19
    Received: Nov. 11, 2014
    Accepted: Nov. 12, 2014
    Published: Nov. 29, 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajam.s.2015030101.12
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    Abstract: Mixed convection flow in the presence of magnetic field is examined in a lid-driven cavity with wavy bottom surface. The magnetic field is applied in perpendicular direction to the cavity. Moreover, the cavity is heated from top while the bottom surface is taken as a wavy pattern. The vertical walls of the cavity are adiabatic. The governing equati... Show More
  • Effects of Aspect Ratios on Flow Friction and Thermal Behavior Inside a Close Domain Using Lattice Boltzmann Method

    M. A. Taher , Litan Kumar Saha , Y. W. Lee

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1-1, January 2015
    Pages: 1-7
    Received: Nov. 11, 2014
    Accepted: Nov. 12, 2014
    Published: Nov. 29, 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajam.s.2015030101.11
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    Abstract: Numerical study of flow friction and thermal behavior on a moving lid of a triangular cavity with various aspect ratios has been discussed using a Thermal Lattice Boltzmann Method (TLBM). To analyze the combined force and free convection, known as mixed convection, flows and heat transfer process in a lid driven triangular cavity with various aspec... Show More