Literati Awards Winners of the International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow

For nearly 30 years, Emerald has rewarded outstanding and impactful contributions to scholarly research through its prestigious Emerald Literati Awards.

Established to celebrate and reward the outstanding contributions made by our scholarly community, these awards help strengthen the impact of the winning research and support the author's scholarly journey by providing the recognition and international kudos they deserve.

2024 Literati Awards
Outstanding Paper
A novel space/time integration technology via altogether different space and time stepping methods for nonlinear first-order systems 
David Tae, Kumar K. Tamma

Outstanding Reviewer
Professor Bengt Sunden
Professor Vaughan Voller

2023 Literati Awards
Outstanding Paper
Heat transfer enhancement compared to entropy generation by imposing magnetic field and hybrid nanoparticles in mixed convection of a Bingham plastic fluid in a ventilated enclosure
Subhasree Dutta, Somnath Bhattacharyya, Ioan Pop

Highly Commended Paper
On the application of the GS4-1 framework for fluid dynamics and adaptive time-stepping via a universal A-posteriori error estimator
Yazhou Wang, Ningning Xie, Likun Yin, Tong Zhang, Xuelin Zhang, Shengwei Mei, Xiaodai Xue, Kumar Tamm

Thermal behavior of a conical antenna cooled with nanofluid saturated porous media: effects of the cavity’s inclination and aspect ratio
Nacim Alilat, Elena B. Martin, Francisco Sastre, Jose Antonio Millán García, Abderrahmane Baïri

Modeling of iced rotor dynamics via CFD/CSD coupling
Wagdi G. Habashi, Maged Yassin

Outstanding Reviewer
Bengt Sundén
Marin Marin
Tanmay Basak
 

2022 Literati Awards
Outstanding Paper
On heat transfer and flow characteristics of jets impinging onto concave surface with varying bleeding arrangements
Dandan Qiu, Lei Luo, Zhiqi Zhao, Songtao Wang, Zhongqi Wang, Bengt Ake Sunden

Outstanding Reviewer
Bengt Sunden
Ioan Pop


2020 Literati Awards
Outstanding Paper
Numerical investigation for second law analysis of ferrofluid inside a porous semi annulus: an application of entropy generation and exergy loss
M. Sheikholeslami, R. Ellahi, Ahmad Shafee, Zhixiong Li

Highly Commended Paper
MHD mixed convection of nanofluid in a cubic cavity with a conductive partition for various nanoparticle shapes
Fatih Selimefendigil, Hakan F. Öztop, Ali J. Chamkha

Unsteady natural convection in a partially porous cavity having a heat-generating source using local thermal non-equilibrium model
Marina S. Astanina, Mikhail Sheremet, C. Jawali Umavathi

Outstanding Reviewer
A. C. Benim


2019 Literati Award
Outstanding Paper
Numerical simulation of two-phase flow regime in horizontal pipeline and its validation
Sam Ban, William Pao, Mohammad Shakir Nasif

Highly Commended Paper
An adaptive fully discontinuous Galerkin level set method for incompressible multiphase flows
Ali Karakus, Tim Warburton, Mehmet Haluk Aksel, Cuneyt Sert

Modelling electro-osmotic flow in porous media: a review
Simona Di Fraia, Nicola Massarotti, P. Nithiarasu

Rack level transient CFD modeling of data center
Yogesh Fulpagare, Yogendra Joshi, Atul Bhargav

Outstanding Reviewer
Bengt Sunden
Mikhail Sheremet


2016 Literati Awards
Outstanding Paper
Hybrid numerical methods combining discretized multidimensional and segmented-quasi-one-dimensional models for simulating thermofluid systems
Alexandre Lamoureux, Bantwal R. (Rabi) Baliga

Highly Commended Paper
An improved turbulence model for predicting unsteady cavitating flows in centrifugal pump
Jian Wang, Yong Wang, Houlin Liu, Haoqin Huang, Linglin Jiang

FEM for the 3-D analysis of conjugate conduction-convection heat transfer in cross-flow micro heat exchangers
Carlo Nonino, Stefano Savino, Stefano Del Giudice

Finite element dynamical subgrid-scale model for low Mach-number flows with radiative heat transfer
Matias Avila, R Codina, Javier Principe

Outstanding Reviewer
Andrew Rees
Ioan Pop
S Abbasbandy


2015 Literati Awards
Outstanding Paper
On maximum achievable speeds for field solvers
Rainald Löhner, Joseph D. Baum

Highly Commended Paper
Boundary Layer Flow near Stagnation-Points on a Vertical Surface with Slip in the Presence of Transverse Magnetic Field
Ibrahim Yakubu Seini, Daniel Oluwole Makinde

Numerical and analytical solutions for Falkner-Skan flow of MHD Oldroyd-B fluid
S. Abbasbandy, T. Hayat, A. Alsaedi, M.M. Rashidi

Numerical Modelling of Multiple Length Scales in Thermal Transport Processes
Yogesh Jaluria

Outstanding Reviewer
Oluwole Makinde
S Abbasbandy


2014 Literati Awards
Outstanding Paper
Solution of a low Prandtl number natural convection benchmark by a local meshless method
Gregor Kosec, Božidar Šarler

Highly Commended Paper
Effects of viscous dissipation and Newtonian heating on boundary layer flow of nanofluids over a flat plate
Oluwole Daniel Makinde

Loss of monotonicity and anomalous scaling behavior in the passive scalar gradient: A DNS study on causes of intermittency
Ivan Langella, Carlo Scalo, Giuseppe De Felice, Carlo Meola

Predictions of round impinging jet heat transfer with two k‐ω hybrid RANS/LES models
Slawomir Kubacki, Jacek Rokicki, Erik Dick

Outstanding Reviewer
Andrzej Nowak
Nicola Massarotti


2013 Literati Awards
Outstanding Paper
Natural convection from a vertical permeable cone in a nanofluid saturated porous media for uniform heat and nanoparticles volume fraction fluxes
A.J. Chamkha, A.M. Rashad

Highly Commended Paper
Application of modified discrete ordinates method to combined conduction-radiation heat transfer problems in irregular geometries
H. Amiri, S.H. Mansouri, P.J. Coelho

Ground effect phenomena about lift and downforce generating cambered aerofoils
Jonathan W. Vogt, Tracie J. Barber

Rational approximation solution of the foam drainage equation with time- and space-fractional derivatives
Ahmet Yıldırım, Hüseyin Koçak

Outstanding Reviewer
Andrzej Nowak
Ji-Huan He


2012 Literati Awards
Outstanding Paper
Numerical simulation of natural convection and phase-change in a horizontal Bridgman apparatus
Diego Celentano, Marcela Cruchaga, Jorge Romero, Mohammed El Ganaoui

Highly Commended Paper
Boundary layer flow over a moving surface in a nanofluid beneath a uniform free stream
Azizah Mohd Rohni, Syakila Ahmad, Ioan Pop

Effect of chemical reaction on heat and mass transfer by mixed convection flow about a sphere in a saturated porous media
A.M. Rashad, A.J. Chamkha, S.M.M. El‐Kabeir

Integral transforms solution for flow development in wavy wall ducts
Roseane L. Silva, João N.N. Quaresma, Carlos A.C. Santos, Renato M. Cotta