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A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J1: Heat and Mass Transfer".

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Prof. Dr. Magdalena Piasecka

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Faculty of Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering, Kielce University of Technology, Al. Tysiaclecia Panstwa Polskiego 7, 25-314 Kielce, Poland
Interests: heat transfer; minichannels; minigaps; compact heat exchangers; two-phase flow; heat transfer enhancement; temperature measurement; computational methods for solving inverse heat transfer problems; thermal and production engineering; quality management tools
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Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Dutkowski

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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Koszalin University of Technology, Raclawicka Street 15-17, 75-620 Koszalin, Poland
Interests: fluid mechanics; thermodynamics; heat transfer; multi-phase flows; renewable energy sources

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to offer you the possibility of submitting articles for a Special Issue of the Energies journal titled “Novel Numerical Methods in Heat and Mass Transfer”.

Fluid mechanics is a branch of physics that describes phenomena related to the movement of liquids and gases. The problems of fluid mechanics (including fluid dynamics) are solved using analytical, experimental, and computational (numerical) methods. Analytical methods allow for solving simple cases, e.g. concerning fixed flows or geometrically not complicated ones - in one- or two-dimensional space. The use of experimental methods in the study of fluid mechanics requires the construction of expensive facilities, equipped with specialized control and measurement equipment. It is often an insurmountable barrier that makes it impossible to verify the research hypotheses. The solution to these problems may be numerical fluid mechanics. In the first period of its development, it did not enjoy wide interest, as it required tedious and monotonous calculations. The situation was changed by the use of computers, which replaced humans in carrying out time-consuming calculations.

Technological progress has made it possible to use the enormous computing power installed in personal computers to solve differential equations of fluid mechanics, including the most important - the Navier-Stokes equation. The task might seem very simple. In fact, the use of the Navier-Stokes equation to solve turbulent flow problems has still not been mastered.

Due to the obvious benefits of using CFDs to solve fluid mechanics problems, which are: a) small financial outlays compared to the construction costs of experimental facilities; b) the ability to simulate increasingly complex problems; c) almost instant availability of computer experimental data, d) the ease of analysis and processing of the results, the computer methods of fluid mechanics are developing dynamically.

In this special issue, we would like to encourage you to present original studies devoted to contemporary aspects of the use of numerical methods in the area of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Prof. Dr. Magdalena Piasecka
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Dutkowski
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CFD
heat transfer
mass transfer
fluid flow
phase-change
heat exchangers

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Novel Numerical Methods in Heat and Mass Transfer

by Magdalena Piasecka and Krzysztof Dutkowski

Energies 2022, 15(7), 2635; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en15072635 - 04 Apr 2022

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The Special Issue entitled “Novel Numerical Methods in Heat and Mass Transfer” focuses on such issues as CFD modeling of fluid flow, heat transfer characteristics, mass transfer, phase-change and heat exchangers. The Guest Editors of this Special Issue, under the support and auspices of the publishing house, and through its editors, invited the authors to publish their latest achievements in the area of numerical methods used in the area of heat and mass transfer. A short overview of the successful invited submission articles devoted to the above-mentioned subject is presented with the hope that these valuable works will be of interest to a wide range of readers, as the topic is important and worth further scientific attention. Full article

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A Fourth Order Numerical Scheme for Unsteady Mixed Convection Boundary Layer Flow: A Comparative Computational Study

by Yasir Nawaz, Muhammad Shoaib Arif, Wasfi Shatanawi and Muhammad Usman Ashraf

Energies 2022, 15(3), 910; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en15030910 - 27 Jan 2022

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In this paper, a three-stage fourth-order numerical scheme is proposed. The first and second stages of the proposed scheme are explicit, whereas the third stage is implicit. A fourth-order compact scheme is considered to discretize space-involved terms. The stability of the fourth-order scheme in space and time is checked using the von Neumann stability criterion for the scalar case. The stability region obtained by the scheme is more than the one given by explicit Runge–Kutta methods. The convergence conditions are found for the system of partial differential equations, which are non-dimensional equations of heat transfer of Stokes first and second problems. The comparison of the proposed scheme is made with the existing Crank–Nicolson scheme. From this comparison, it can be concluded that the proposed scheme converges faster than the Crank–Nicolson scheme. It also produces less relative error than the Crank–Nicolson method for time-dependent problems. Full article

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Optimum Multi-Mini-Channels Height for Heat Enhancement under Forced Convection Condition

by M. Z. Saghir and Z. Alhajaj

Energies 2021, 14(21), 7020; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en14217020 - 27 Oct 2021

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Heat enhancement and heat removal remain important topics in engineering. Furthermore, flow in a laminar regime can reduce the cost of cooling. In the present study, flow in mini channels in a rectangular cavity is investigated with water as a circulating fluid. The height of the channel in the cavity is varied and interaction of the free flow above the channel with flow through the channel has been investigated. It is shown that a combination of these two flows can provide the optimum heat removal at a Reynolds number of 750. This finding is valid if one ignores the friction effect to the wall. The best configuration is for an aspect ratio AR = 6. If the pressure drop is taken into consideration, then the performance evaluation criterion shows that the mini-channel with aspect ratio AR = 12 is the best configuration. Different correlations have been obtained between the Nusselt number, pressure drop, friction factor, performance evaluation criterion, and the Reynolds number and the height of the channels. Full article

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Trefftz Method of Solving a 1D Coupled Thermoelasticity Problem for One- and Two-Layered Media

by Artur Maciąg and Krzysztof Grysa

Energies 2021, 14(12), 3637; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en14123637 - 18 Jun 2021

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This paper discusses a 1D one-dimensional mathematical model for the thermoelasticity problem in a two-layer plate. Basic equations in dimensionless form contain both temperature and displacement. General solutions of homogeneous equations (displacement and temperature equations) are assumed to be a linear combination of Trefftz functions. Particular solutions of these equations are then expressed with appropriately constructed sums of derivatives of general solutions. Next, the inverse operators to those appearing in homogeneous equations are defined and applied to the right-hand sides of inhomogeneous equations. Thus, two systems of functions are obtained, satisfying strictly a fully coupled system of equations. To determine the unknown coefficients of these linear combinations, a functional is constructed that describes the error of meeting the initial and boundary conditions by approximate solutions. The minimization of the functional leads to an approximate solution to the problem under consideration. The solutions for one layer and for a two-layer plate are graphically presented and analyzed, illustrating the possible application of the method. Our results show that increasing the number of Trefftz functions leads to the reduction of differences between successive approximations. Full article

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An Explicit Fourth-Order Compact Numerical Scheme for Heat Transfer of Boundary Layer Flow

by Yasir Nawaz, Muhammad Shoaib Arif, Wasfi Shatanawi and Amna Nazeer

Energies 2021, 14(12), 3396; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en14123396 - 09 Jun 2021

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The main contribution of this article is to propose a compact explicit scheme for solving time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). The proposed explicit scheme has an advantage over the corresponding implicit compact scheme to find solutions of nonlinear and linear convection–diffusion type equations because the implicit existing compact scheme fails to obtain the solution. In addition, the present scheme provides fourth-order accuracy in space and second-order accuracy in time, and is constructed on three grid points and three time levels. It is a compact multistep scheme and conditionally stable, while the existing multistep scheme developed on three time levels is unconditionally unstable for parabolic and considered a type of equations. The mathematical model of the heat transfer in a mixed convective radiative fluid flow over a flat plate is also given. The convergence conditions of dimensionless forms of these equations are given, and also the proposed scheme solves equations, and results are compared with two existing schemes. It is hoped that the results in the current report are a helpful source for future fluid-flow studies in an industrial environment in an enclosure area. Full article

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