Thermal Science, year 2009, volume 13, issue 2

Words From the Editors

From the Editor-in-Chief, issue 2009/2

From the Guest Editor: A brief appraisal of the Goodman method with some personal standpoints

Part One

Papers dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Goodman heat-balance integral method

ON HIGH-ORDER POLYNOMIAL HEAT-BALANCE INTEGRAL IMPLEMENTATIONS

THE HEAT-BALANCE INTEGRAL METHOD BY A PARABOLIC PROFILE WITH UNSPECIFIED EXPONENT: ANALYSIS AND BENCHMARK EXERCISES

RESEARCH NOTE ON A PARABOLIC HEAT-BALANCE INTEGRAL METHOD WITH UNSPECIFIED EXPONENT: An Entropy Generation Approach in Optimal Profile Determination

A BRIEF REVIEW OF SEVERAL NUMERICAL METHODS FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL STEFAN PROBLEMS

APPLICATION OF HEAT-BALANCE INTEGRAL METHOD TO CONJUGATE THERMAL EXPLOSION

ON THE GOODMAN HEAT-BALANCE INTEGRAL METHOD FOR STEFAN LIKE-PROBLEMS

HOW GOOD IS GOODMAN'S HEAT-BALANCE INTEGRAL METHOD FOR ANALYZING THE REWETTING OF HOT SURFACES?

APPLICATION OF THE HEAT-BALANCE AND REFINED INTEGRAL METHODS TO THE KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION

HEAT-BALANCE INTEGRAL METHOD FOR HEAT TRANSFER IN SUPERFLUID HELIUM

ENTROPY GENERATION ANALYSIS IN ERROR ESTIMATION OF AN APPROXIMATE SOLUTION: A CONSTANT SURFACE TEMPERATURE SEMI-INFINITE CONDUCTIVE PROBLEM

MELTING AND FREEZING IN A FINITE SLAB DUE TO A LINEARLY DECREASING FREE-STREAM TEMPERATURE OF A CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY CONDITION

Part Two

RADIATION AND CHEMICAL REACTION EFFECTS ON ISOTHERMAL VERTICAL OSCILLATING PLATE WITH VARIABLE MASS DIFFUSION

RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER WITH HYDROMAGNETIC FLOW AND VISCOUS DISSIPATION OVER A STRETCHING SURFACE IN THE PRESENCE OF VARIABLE HEAT FLUX

RADIATION AND MASS TRANSFER EFFECTS ON MHD FREE CONVECTION FLOW PAST AN IMPULSIVELY STARTED ISOTHERMAL VERTICAL PLATE WITH DISSIPATION

ANALYTIC SOLUTION OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER OVER A PERMEABLE STRETCHING PLATE AFFECTED BY CHEMICAL REACTION, INTERNAL HEATING, DUFOUR-SORET EFFECT AND HALL EFFECT

SOLUTION OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL MOVING BOUNDARY PROBLEM WITH PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS BY VARIATIONAL ITERATION METHOD

A LATTICE BOLTZMANN COUPLED TO FINITE VOLUMES METHOD FOR SOLVING PHASE CHANGE PROBLEMS

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.

LAYING THE GHOST OF TWIN PARADOX