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61
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2001
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Overview

Roland W. Lewis is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of engineering. Their research broadly encompasses topics related to nanofluid flow, heat transfer mechanisms, and fluid dynamics. The main fields of study for Lewis include engineering with a focus on biomedical engineering, computational mechanics, mechanical engineering, and fluid flow and transfer processes.

Their scholarly contributions feature a diverse range of subjects including nanofluid flow and heat transfer, heat transfer and optimization, and fluid dynamics and turbulent flows. Other topics prominently addressed in their work are rheology and fluid dynamics studies, fluid dynamics and vibration analysis, and heat and mass transfer in porous media.

Lewis's recent publications include:

  • Entropy and convection effect on magnetized hybrid nano-liquid flow inside a trapezoidal cavity with zigzagged wall, 2021, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Hydromagnetic flow of magnetite-water nanofluid utilizing adapted Buongiorno model, 2023, International Journal of Modern Physics B
  • Editorial: Professor Kannahalli Narasimha Shastri Seetharamu - a tribute to an outstanding computational heat transfer expert, 2022, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
  • Peer support and what you can learn from others, 2025, Nursing Standard

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lewis include Fateh Mebarek-Oudina, Fares Redouane, Aissa Abderrahmane, Nidal H. Abu-Hamdeh, and Preeti Prashar. Their research has been published across several venues such as International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, International Journal of Modern Physics B, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, and Nursing Standard.

Best Publications

  • Associated and non-associated visco-plasticity and plasticity in soil mechanics

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;C. Humpheson;R. W. Lewis

  • The Finite Element Method in the Static and Dynamic Deformation and Consolidation of Porous Media

    R. W. Lewis;B.A. Schrefler

  • Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method for Heat and Fluid Flow

    R. W. Lewis;Perumal Nithiarasu;K. N. Seetharamu

  • Finite element solution of non‐linear heat conduction problems with special reference to phase change

    G. Comini;S. Del Guidice;R. W. Lewis;O. C. Zienkiewicz

  • The Finite Element Method in Heat Transfer Analysis

    R. W. Lewis

  • Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method for Heat and Fluid Flow: Lewis/Finite Element Method for Heat and Fluid Flow

    Roland W. Lewis;Perumal Nithiarasu;Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu

  • The Finite Element Method in the Deformation and Consolidation of Porous Media

    R. W. Lewis;B. A. Schrefler

  • An improved algrorithm for heat conduction problems with phase change

    K. Morgan;R. W. Lewis;O. C. Zienkiewicz

  • Finite element simulation of metal casting

    R. W. Lewis;K. Ravindran

  • A variational formulation based contact algorithm for rigid boundaries in two-dimensional SPH applications

    Sivakumar Kulasegaram;Javier Bonet;R. W. Lewis;M. Profit

  • Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method for Heat and Mass Transfer

    Perumal Nithiarasu;Kankanhalli N Seetharamu;Roland W Lewis

  • Finite element modelling of three‐phase flow in deforming saturated oil reservoirs

    R. W. Lewis;Y. Sukirman

  • A comparison of time marching schemes for the transient heat conduction equation

    W. L. Wood;R. W. Lewis

  • Numerical methods in heat transfer

    R.W. Lewis;K. Morgan;B.A. Schrefler

  • A fully coupled consolidation model of the subsidence of Venice

    R. W. Lewis;B. Schrefler

  • An improved unsteady, unstructured, artificial compressibility, finite volume scheme for viscous incompressible flows: Part I. Theory and implementation

    A. G. Malan;R. W. Lewis;P. Nithiarasu

  • The Role of Geomechanics in Reservoir Simulation

    M. Gutierrex;R.W. Lewis

  • The Finite Element Method

    Roland W. Lewis;Perumal Nithiarasu;Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu

  • A numerical solution of two-dimensional problems involving heat and mass transfer

    G. Comini;R.W. Lewis

  • Convection Heat Transfer

    Roland W. Lewis;Perumal Nithiarasu;Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu

  • Numerical methods in offshore engineering

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;R. W. Lewis;K. G. Stagg

Frequent Co-Authors

Perumal Nithiarasu
Perumal Nithiarasu Swansea University
Kenneth Morgan
Kenneth Morgan Swansea University
Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu
Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu Universiti Sains Malaysia
Bernhard A. Schrefler
Bernhard A. Schrefler University of Padua
Amir R. Khoei
Amir R. Khoei Sharif University of Technology
Xin-She Yang
Xin-She Yang Middlesex University
Javier Bonet
Javier Bonet International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Asif Usmani
Asif Usmani Hong Kong Polytechnic University
O.C. Zienkiewicz
O.C. Zienkiewicz Swansea University
Marte Gutierrez
Marte Gutierrez Colorado School of Mines

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