In this paper, an experimental study with the exergy analysis are performed to investigate the application of a reticular porous insert in a single slope solar still for performance improvement. Two single slope solar ...

This paper concerns the entropy generation and sensitivity analyses of fluid flow inside a poroussolar heat exchanger. The governing equations have been solved numerically using a finite volume method. The simulations are ...

This paper presents forced convective heat transfer in a channel with a built-in square obstacle. The governing equations with the boundary conditions are solved using a finite volume method. The computations were done for ...

In the article, entropy generation is calculated locally by the computational fluid dynamic simulation for the design improvement of a single slope solar still. A numerical approach based on SIMPLE algorithm is utilized ...

In this article, steady natural convection inside a square cavity with wavy surface filled with a porous medium is studied numerically. The temperature for the right wall of the cavity is maintained ...

This paper simulates the forced convective heat transfer of Al2O3–water nanofluid over an equilateral triangular obstacle. Computations are performed for different orientations of the triangular obstacle (side, vertex and ...

The purpose of this paper is to implement the numerical analysis based on finite volume

method to compare the effects of stress-jump (SJ) and stress-continuity (SC) conditions on flow

structure around and ...

A comprehensive numerical study is performed on the fluid flow and heat transfer within a porous

solar heater. The effects of porous material on the heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop are

presented ...

An experimental study is conducted to investigate the thermal energy separation in a counter-flow vortex tube. The effects of the cold orifice diameter (dc), the number of tangential intakes (n) and the helical length of ...

This article is an attempt to enhance the heat transfer rate around anobstacle by nanofluids and

controlthe instabilities of the unsteady flow by Magnetohydrodynamics. The finite volume

method (FVM) is used ...