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7 Citations
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To provide insights into the challenging problem of turbulent convection, Jack Herring used a greatly truncated version of the complete Boussinesq equations containing only one horizontal wavenumber. In light of later observations of a robust large-s...

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  • Open Access
1,183 Views
11 Pages

11 June 2024

This study introduces a block triple-relaxation-time (B-TriRT) lattice Boltzmann model designed specifically for simulating melting phenomena within a rectangular cavity subject to intense heating from below, characterized by high Rayleigh (Ra) numbe...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,213 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2024

While thermal convection cells exhibit left–right and top–bottom symmetries at low Rayleigh numbers (Ra), the emergence of coherent flow structures, such as elliptical large-scale circulation in Rayleigh–Bénard convection (RB...

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  • Open Access
1,050 Views
30 Pages

This study presents a numerical comparison between Direct numerical simulation (DNS) and the standard κ-ε turbulence model to evaluate natural convection in a two-dimensional, differentially heated, air-filled cavity over the Rayleigh n...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,124 Views
13 Pages

The active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar consists of many transmit/receive (T/R) modules and is used to track missiles approaching destroyers and fighters. The performance of the AESA radar depends on the T/R module temperature. The T/R m...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,582 Views
10 Pages

22 November 2019

The study utilizes the energy-flux-vector method to analyze the heat transfer characteristics of natural convection in a wavy-wall porous square cavity with a partially-heated bottom surface. The effects of the modified Darcy number, modified Rayleig...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,247 Views
17 Pages

22 July 2019

In the present investigation, the free convection energy transport was studied in a C-shaped tilted chamber with the inclination angle α that was filled with the MWCNT (MultiWall Carbon Nanotubes)-Fe3O4-H2O hybrid nanofluid and it is affected b...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,042 Views
16 Pages

Numerical Investigation of the Electro-Thermo Convection in an Inclined Cavity Filled with a Dielectric Fluid

  • Dalila Akrour,
  • Mohamed Issam Elkhazen,
  • Walid Hassen,
  • Karim Kriaa,
  • Chemseddine Maatki,
  • Bilel Hadrich and
  • Lioua Kolsi

20 August 2023

The present work is a numerical analysis of electro-thermo convection, occurring in a square differentially heated cavity filled with a dielectric fluid. The cavity experiences the combined effects of viscous, electrical, and thermal forces. The equa...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
2,660 Views
17 Pages

Free Convection Heat Transfer and Entropy Generation in an Odd-Shaped Cavity Filled with a Cu-Al2O3 Hybrid Nanofluid

  • Mohammad Ghalambaz,
  • Seyed Mohsen Hashem Zadeh,
  • Ali Veismoradi,
  • Mikhail A. Sheremet and
  • Ioan Pop

12 January 2021

The present paper aims to analyze the thermal convective heat transport and generated irreversibility of water-Cu-Al2O3 hybrid nanosuspension in an odd-shaped cavity. The side walls are adiabatic, and the internal and external borders of the enclosur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,264 Views
18 Pages

3 March 2017

Entropy generation for a paramagnetic fluid in a square enclosure with thermomagnetic convection is numerically investigated under the influence of a magnetic quadrupole field. The magnetic field is calculated using the scalar magnetic potential appr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,505 Views
13 Pages

29 February 2020

This paper studied the Rayleigh–Bénard convection in binary fluid mixtures with a strong Soret effect (separation ratio ψ = − 0.6 ) in a rectangular container heated uniformly from below. We used a high-accuracy compact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,038 Views
14 Pages

The Role of Radiation in Mixed Convection Heat Transfer from a Rectangular Fin Heat Sink: Experimental Investigation

  • Mahmoud Rasti,
  • Mohammad Hossein Kashefi,
  • Amirreza Shahsavari,
  • Mirae Kim,
  • Wonseop Chung,
  • Kyung Chun Kim and
  • Se Chul Oh

8 December 2024

Nowadays, effective thermal management is essential to prevent overheating in high-power devices. The utilization of high-emissivity materials plays a crucial role in enhancing heat transfer efficiency in both natural and mixed convection systems. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,108 Views
25 Pages

Mathematical Entropy Analysis of Natural Convection of MWCNT—Fe3O4/Water Hybrid Nanofluid with Parallel Magnetic Field via Galerkin Finite Element Process

  • Djellouli Ghali,
  • Fares Redouane,
  • Roubi Abdelhak,
  • Amine Belhadj Mahammed,
  • Chikr Djaoutsi Zineb,
  • Wasim Jamshed,
  • Mohamed R. Eid,
  • Sayed M. Eldin,
  • Awad Musa and
  • Nor Ain Azeany Mohd Nasir

3 November 2022

Heat transfer in a symmetrical cavity with two semi-cylinders was explored in this study. Several parameters, such as (103≤Ra≤106), (10−5≤Da≤10−2), (0.02≤ϕ≤0.08), (0.2≤ε≤0.8), and (0≤Ha≤100) were...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,180 Views
16 Pages

22 March 2024

Natural convection heat transfer from an inclined array of square cross-section cylinders is experimentally studied. Three cylinders of side length D = 0.02 m and 1 m length are used to form the inclined array. Three-cylinder axis inclination angles...

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  • Open Access
845 Views
21 Pages

26 July 2025

This study investigated how microparticle size affects natural convective heat transfer in high-viscosity suspensions. Suspensions were formulated using 0.5% xanthan gum and 3% stearic acid, with particle sizes ranging from 120 to 750 nm. Key thermal...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,514 Views
12 Pages

27 July 2020

Flow and heat transfer in a horizontal porous layer subjected to internal heat generation and g-jitter is considered for the Dirichlet thermal boundary condition. A linear stability analysis is used to determine the convection threshold in terms of t...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,844 Views
24 Pages

12 April 2021

Natural convection heat transfer in a porous annulus filled with a Cu nanofluid has been investigated numerically. The Darcy–Brinkman and the energy transport equations are employed to describe the nanofluid motion and the heat transfer in the porous...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,827 Views
20 Pages

Convection Inside Nanofluid Cavity with Mixed Partially Boundary Conditions

  • Raoudha Chaabane,
  • Annunziata D’Orazio,
  • Abdelmajid Jemni,
  • Arash Karimipour and
  • Ramin Ranjbarzadeh

9 October 2021

In recent decades, research utilizing numerical schemes dealing with fluid and nanoparticle interaction has been relatively intensive. It is known that CuO nanofluid with a volume fraction of 0.1 and a special thermal boundary condition with heat sup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,331 Views
16 Pages

6 January 2021

This work investigates a hydrodynamic problem involving the Fe3O4-Water nanofluid. The novelty of this investigation lies in the fact that the nanofluid free convection is evaluated within a specific rectangular enclosure having a finned absorber pla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,538 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2023

An experimental study on natural convection heat transfer from the outer surface of a horizontal array of vertical square tubes in the air is investigated. The array consists of three vertical square tubes at equally different center-to-center distan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,117 Views
23 Pages

7 January 2022

In this study, a 3D numerical study of free ventilated room equipped with a discrete heat source was performed using the Finite Volume Method (FVM). To ensure good ventilation, two parallel openings were created in the room. A suction opening was loc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,248 Views
30 Pages

Nonlinear Analysis of Cross Rolls of Electrically Conducting Fluid under an Applied Magnetic Field with Rotation

  • Y. Rameshwar,
  • G. Srinivas,
  • A. Krishna Rao,
  • U. S. Mahabaleshwar and
  • D. Laroze

27 June 2023

The proposed planer layer dynamo physical model has real-world applications, especially in the Earth’s liquid core. Thus, in this paper, an attempt is made to understand the finite amplitude convection when there exists a coupling between the L...

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  • Open Access
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15 Pages

Enhancement of Heat Transfer Accompanied by a Decrease in Kinetic Energy Due to Magnetic Field Imposition in Liquid Metal Natural Convection

  • Shu Kondo,
  • Takuya Masuda,
  • Masaki Sakaguchi,
  • Yasutaka Hayamizu,
  • M. M. A. Alam and
  • Toshio Tagawa

22 September 2025

Natural convection of liquid metals under magnetic fields is a phenomenon of interest in various industrial and scientific applications, including fusion reactor blankets and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power systems. While the application of a magneti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,542 Views
21 Pages

5 December 2022

This work employs single-mode equations to study convection and double-diffusive convection in a porous medium where the Darcy law provides large-scale damping. We first consider thermal convection with salinity as a passive scalar. The single-mode s...

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3 Citations
2,837 Views
11 Pages

Stellar Turbulent Convection: The Multiscale Nature of the Solar Magnetic Signature

  • Stefano Scardigli,
  • Francesco Berrilli,
  • Dario Del Moro and
  • Luca Giovannelli

22 July 2021

The multiscale dynamics associated with turbulent convection present in physical systems governed by very high Rayleigh numbers still remains a vividly disputed topic in the community of astrophysicists, and in general, among physicists dealing with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,898 Views
14 Pages

11 December 2024

This paper presents, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, simultaneous temperature and relative humidity (RH) measurement using a machine learning (ML) model in Rayleigh-based Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry (OFDR). The sensor unit...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,471 Views
12 Pages

29 April 2023

This study examines the process of a 240 µm droplet breakup under a shock wave through experiments using a double-pulse laser holographic test technique on a shock tube. The technique allowed for high-resolution data to be obtained at the micro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,213 Views
23 Pages

5 June 2020

Natural convection of liquid metal in an annular enclosure under the influence of azimuthal static magnetic field was numerically studied. The liquid metal in the enclosure whose cross-sectional area is square was heated from an inner vertical wall a...

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  • Open Access
2,569 Views
11 Pages

1 September 2021

The flow and heat transfer in a rotating vertical porous layer, placed far from the axis of rotation, and subjected to internal heat generation and centrifugal jitter, is considered. The linear stability theory is used to determine the convection thr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,172 Views
38 Pages

In this paper, diffraction of scalar waves by a screen with a circular aperture is explored, considering the incidence of either a collimated beam or a focused wave, a historical review of the development of the theory is presented, and the introduct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,982 Views
17 Pages

9 February 2022

In this paper, we propose an adaptive defect-correction method for natural convection (NC) equations. A defect-correction method (DCM) is proposed for solving NC equations to overcome the convection dominance problem caused by a high Rayleigh number....

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  • Open Access
56 Citations
9,189 Views
23 Pages

13 November 2015

Based on the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), the lattice Boltzmann flux solver (LBFS), which combines the advantages of conventional Navier–Stokes solvers and lattice Boltzmann solvers, was proposed recently. Specifically, LBFS applies the finite vol...

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  • Open Access
700 Views
15 Pages

15 July 2025

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) stands as one of the approaches to achieve controlled thermonuclear fusion, capable of supplying humans with abundant, economical, and safe energy. In this study, the high-order hybrid compact–WENO scheme is em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,282 Views
14 Pages

29 September 2015

We perform a computer simulation of the reaction-diffusion and convection that takes place in Rayleigh–Bénard and Bénard–Poiseuille regimes. The lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) is used along with the Boussinesq approximation to solve the non-linear...

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  • Open Access
41 Citations
3,871 Views
18 Pages

16 April 2019

The onset of convection in an inclined porous layer which is heated internally by a uniform distribution of heat sources is considered. We investigate the combined effects of inclination, anisotropy and internal heat generation on the linear instabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,163 Views
16 Pages

Inter-Particle Effects with a Large Population in Acoustofluidics

  • Kun Jia,
  • Yulong Wang,
  • Liqiang Li,
  • Jian Chen and
  • Keji Yang

10 October 2020

The ultrasonic manipulation of cells and bioparticles in a large population is a maturing technology. There is an unmet demand for improved theoretical understanding of the particle–particle interactions at a high concentration. In this study,...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
2,183 Views
14 Pages

14 August 2023

This paper documents the 2D numerical study of magnetohydrodynamic unsteady natural convective heat transfer in a circular enclosure with four heating cylinders in both the horizontal and the vertical mid-plane. The fluid is an incompressible Newtoni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,043 Views
12 Pages

Thermal Effect on the Bioconvection Dynamics of Gravitactic Microorganisms in a Rectangular Cavity

  • Rubén Mil-Martínez,
  • René O. Vargas,
  • Juan P. Escandón,
  • Ildebrando Pérez-Reyes,
  • Marcos Turcio,
  • Aldo Gómez-López and
  • Francisco López-Serrano

17 March 2022

In this work, the dynamics of the bioconvection process of gravitactic microorganisms enclosed in a rectangular cavity, is analyzed. The dimensionless cell and energy conservation equations are coupled with the vorticity-stream function formulation....

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,864 Views
24 Pages

Distributed Thermal Response Tests Using a Heating Cable and Fiber Optic Temperature Sensing

  • Maria Isabel Vélez Márquez,
  • Jasmin Raymond,
  • Daniela Blessent,
  • Mikael Philippe,
  • Nataline Simon,
  • Olivier Bour and
  • Louis Lamarche

7 November 2018

Thermal response tests are used to assess the subsurface thermal conductivity to design ground-coupled heat pump systems. Conventional tests are cumbersome and require a source of high power to heat water circulating in a pilot ground heat exchanger....

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,628 Views
11 Pages

A Novel Racing Array Transducer for Noninvasive Ultrasonic Retinal Stimulation: A Simulation Study

  • Yanyan Yu,
  • Zhiqiang Zhang,
  • Feiyan Cai,
  • Min Su,
  • Qiuju Jiang,
  • Qifa Zhou,
  • Mark S. Humayun,
  • Weibao Qiu and
  • Hairong Zheng

17 April 2019

Neurostimulation has proved to be an effective method for the restoration of visual perception lost due to retinal diseases. However, the clinically available retinal neurostimulation method is based on invasive electrodes, making it a high-cost and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,521 Views
23 Pages

9 October 2019

In this paper, we propose and evaluate the performance of fountain codes (FCs) based secure transmission protocols in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems, in presence of a passive eavesdropper. In the proposed protocols, a source s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
1,703 Views
18 Pages

7 May 2024

The study investigates the performance of fluid flow, thermal, and mass transport within a cavity, highlighting its application in various engineering sectors like nuclear reactors and solar collectors. Currently, the focus is on enhancing heat and m...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,478 Views
27 Pages

2 November 2022

In this paper, a comparison is conducted between two different formulations of the van der Waals interaction coefficient between layers, as applied to the vibrations of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs); specifically, the evaluation of the natu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,079 Views
26 Pages

Numerical Study of Rotating Thermal Convection on a Hemisphere

  • Patrick Fischer,
  • Charles-Henri Bruneau and
  • Hamid Kellay

20 October 2020

Numerical simulations of rotating two-dimensional turbulent thermal convection on a hemisphere are presented in this paper. Previous experiments on a half soap bubble located on a heated plate have been used for studying thermal convection as well as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,150 Views
18 Pages

28 August 2018

The aim of this study is to investigate, by means of experimental measurements and full-wave simulations, the dominant factors for the very high-resolution (VHR) radar image speckles from exponentially correlated rough surfaces. A Ka-band radar syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,450 Views
13 Pages

Onset of Inertial Magnetoconvection in Rotating Fluid Spheres

  • Radostin D. Simitev and
  • Friedrich H. Busse

13 January 2021

The onset of convection in the form of magneto-inertial waves in a rotating fluid sphere permeated by a constant axial electric current is studied in this paper. Thermo-inertial convection is a distinctive flow regime on the border between rotating t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
481 Views
25 Pages

Efficient management of heat transfer and entropy generation in nanofluid enclosures is essential for the development of high-performance thermal systems. This study employs the finite element method (FEM) to numerically analyze the effects of wall c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,605 Views
14 Pages

Towards Quantum 3D Imaging Devices

  • Cristoforo Abbattista,
  • Leonardo Amoruso,
  • Samuel Burri,
  • Edoardo Charbon,
  • Francesco Di Lena,
  • Augusto Garuccio,
  • Davide Giannella,
  • Zdeněk Hradil,
  • Michele Iacobellis and
  • Bohumil Stoklasa
  • + 16 authors

12 July 2021

We review the advancement of the research toward the design and implementation of quantum plenoptic cameras, radically novel 3D imaging devices that exploit both momentum–position entanglement and photon–number correlations to provide the typical ref...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,031 Views
14 Pages

Numerical Study of Natural Convection of Biological Nanofluid Flow Prepared from Tea Leaves under the Effect of Magnetic Field

  • Yacine Khetib,
  • Ahmad Alahmadi,
  • Ali Alzaed,
  • Hussein A. Saleem,
  • Mohsen Sharifpur and
  • Goshtasp Cheraghian

14 October 2021

The heat transfer of a biological nanofluid (N/F) in a rectangular cavity with two hot triangular blades is examined in this work. The properties used for nanoparticles (N/Ps) are derived from a N/P prepared naturally from tea leaves. Silver N/Ps are...

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  • Open Access
668 Views
31 Pages

1 August 2025

Internal fins are commonly utilized as a passive technique to enhance natural convection, but their efficiency depends on complex interplay between fin design, material properties, and convective strength. This study presents an extensive numerical a...

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