Heat transfer analysis is a problem of major significance in a vast range of industrial
applications. These extend over the fields of mechanical engineering, aeronautical …

Several noniterative procedures for solving the nonlinear Richards equation are introduced
and compared to the conventional Newton and Picard iteration methods. Noniterative …

A system of coupled transient differential equations governing heat, mass transfer, and pore
pressure built up in porous media (concrete), subjected to intensive heating, is derived …

In the numerical solution of heat conduction problems with phase change by finite
differences, enthalpy methods or temperature methods can be used. The former require …

The present work analyzes the problem of condensation in porous insulation. Specific
consideration is given to a steady-state one-dimensional formulation, representing a porous …

Oil leakage of transportation pipelines causes a change in its environmental temperature.
This effect is employed to detect the leakage and its positions. The Raman Optical Time …

This paper examines the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mixed convection flow
over a sphere combined with variable fluid properties. An implicit finite difference scheme …

A new form of a capillary potential/temperature formulation of heat and mass transfer in
unsaturated soil is presented. Moisture transfer in both the vapor and liquid phases and heat …

The evaporative drying of a two-dimensional rectangular brick is studied numerically as a
conjugate problem. The conservation equations for the solid are obtained using the …

This work deals with the solution of an inverse problem of parameter estimation involving
heat and mass transfer in capillary porous media, as described by the dimensionless linear …