THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Thermal Science Archive volume 13, year 2009, No. 2

Words From the Editors

Simeon Oka
From the Editor-in-Chief, issue 2009/2
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Jordan Y HristovORCID
From the Guest Editor: A brief appraisal of the Goodman method with some personal standpoints
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Part One

Papers dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Goodman heat-balance integral method
Alastair S Wood,
Farida Mosally,
Abdul Al-Fhaid
On high-order polynomial heat-balance integral implementations
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Jordan Y HristovORCID
The heat-balance integral method by a parabolic profile with unspecified exponent: Analysis and benchmark exercises
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Jordan Y HristovORCID
Research note on a parabolic heat-balance integral method with unspecified exponent: An entropy generation approach in optimal profile determination
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James Caldwell,
Yuen-Yick Kwan
A brief review of several numerical methods for one-dimensional Stefan problems
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Vasily Novozhilov
Application of heat-balance integral method to conjugate thermal explosion
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Nacer Sadoun,
El-Khider Si-Ahmed,
Pierre Colinet,
Jack Legrand
On the goodman heat-balance integral method for Stefan like-problems: Further considerations and refinements
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Santosh Kumar Sahu,
Prasanta Kumar Das,
Souvik Bhattacharyya
How good is Goodman's heat-balance integral method for analyzing the rewetting of hot surfaces?
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Timothy G Myers,
Sarah L Mitchell
Application of the heat-balance and refined integral methods to the Korteweg-de Vries equation
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Bertrand Baudouy
Heat-balance integral method for heat transfer in superfluid helium
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Javad Abolfazli Esfahani,
Seama Koohi-Fayegh
Entropy generation analysis in error estimation of an approximate solution: A constant surface temperature semi-infinite conductive problem
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Anand P Roday,
Michael J Kazmierczak
Melting and freezing in a finite slab due to a linearly decreasing free-stream temperature of a convective boundary condition
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Part Two

Kaliappan Manivannan,
Rajamanickam Muthucumaraswamy,
Venu Thangaraj
Radiation and chemical reaction effects on isothermal vertical oscillating plate with variable mass diffusion
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Hitesh Kumar
Radiative heat transfer with hydromagnetic flow and viscous dissipation over a stretching surface in the presence of variable heat flux
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Suneetha Sangapatnam,
Bhaskar Reddy Nandanoor,
Ramachandra Prasad Vallampati
Radiation and mass transfer effects on MHD free convection flow past an impulsively started isothermal vertical plate with dissipation
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Ibrahim A Abdallah
Analytic solution of heat and mass transfer over a permeable stretching plate affected by chemical reaction, internal heating, Dufour-Soret effect and hall effect
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Rajeev,
Kabindra Nath Rai,
Subir Das
Solution of one-dimensional moving boundary problem with periodic boundary conditions by variational iteration method
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Mohammed El Ganaoui,
El Alami Semma
A lattice Boltzmann coupled to finite volumes method for solving phase change problems
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Open Forum

Open discussion concerning unsolved or intriguing fundamental questions about physical background of the engineering problems we are facing every day in research and engineering practice.
Marko E PopovićORCID
Laying the ghost of twin paradox
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