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ABSTRACT

Motivation
...

Problem Statement
An experimental investigation was conducted to explore …
The effect of …… is numerically investigated for Reynolds number range of …
This article provides numerically study of the …..
In this study, ….. was analyzed.
This article presents an exhaustive review of these studies and suggests a direction for future developments. Approach
… is investigated by a numerical study.

Results
The results reveal that …
Based on the results, ….
The calculation in this work suggest that ….
The results also show that …
The results of the numerical simulation indicate that the ….
It was found that …

Conclussion
…, and areas for future research are recommended.
Implications of the results and future research directions are also presented.
The results presented here may facilitate improvements in the …

INTRODUCTION

Establishing the importance of the topic:
The topic of natural convection in enclosures is one of the most active areas in heat transfer research today ...
One of the most significant current discussions in nanotechnology is ....
The knowledge of the X in Y is important for an understanding of ...
The X has been investigated by many researchers using ...
In the recent decades, X has been one of the major interesting research subjects due to ...
In the past two decades, X spaces have been studied extensively.
Recent developments in X have heightened the need for ....
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in ....
Recent developments in the field of X have led to a renewed interest in ....
Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in ......
The past decade has seen the rapid development of X in many ....
The past thirty years have seen increasingly rapid advances in the field of ....
Over the past century there has been a dramatic increase in ....
In the past years, the X has attracted much attention as a ...
The primary goal of turbine cooling research during the past years was to develop
Film cooling on turbine components has been studied since the 1970’s, and...
X has been studied over the latest few decades because ...

General descriptions of the relevant literature:
Researchers have studied the effect of ...
Previous studies have primarily concentrated on …
There have been several studies in the literature reporting ….
A considerable amount of literature has been published on X. These studies ....
There is a large volume of published studies describing ....
The first serious discussions and analyses of X emerged during the 1980s with ....
During the past 30 years much more information has become available on ....

In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of literature on ....
A large and growing body of literature has investigated ....
In recent years, several studies have focused on …


General reference to previous research
Many researchers have argued that .... [1-3].
There is a consensus among social scientisits that ....[1-3].
Numerous studies have attempted to explain .... [1-3]
Recent evidence suggests that .... [1-3]
Several attempts have been made to .... [1-3]
Several studies have revealed that ..... [1-3]
Several studies investigating X have been carried out on ....[1-3]
Previous studies have reported .... [1-3].
Previous research findings into X have been inconsistent and contradictory [1-3]
A number of studies have found that .... [1-3].
A number of study analyses have examined the relationship between .... [1-3]
The relationship between X and Y has been widely investigated [1-3]
The causes of X have been widely investigated [1-3].
It has been suggested that .... [1-3]
It has conclusively been shown that .... [1-3]
Previous research has shown that….. [2]
Studies have found that …. [1-3].
More recent studies have confirmed that …. [1-3]

Time frame references
In 1975, Author et al. published a paper in which they described ....[4]
In 1990 Author et al. demonstrated that .... [4]
Thirty years later, Author reported that .... [4]
In the 1970s Author pointed that …. [4]
In 1981, Author and co workers demonstrated that.... [4]

In 1990, Author et al. reported.... [4]
In 1984 Author et al. Concluded that .... [4]

Author as subject
Author identifies ....
Author lists three possibilities....
Author traces the development of ....
Author provides in-depth analysis of the work of ....
Author highlights the need to....
Author discusses the challenges and strategies for ....
Author mentions the siginificant relationship between ....
Author questions whether ....
Author argued that/the ….
Author carried out numerical study of ….
Author describes ….
Author discovered ….
Author found that ….
Author has demonstrated that ....
Author have proposed ….
Author indicated that ….
Author investigated on….
Author investigated the ....
Author measured the ….
Author noted that ....
Author observed that ….
Author posited that ….
Author proposed ….
Author raised several concerns about …. They suggested that….
Author reported that/the ....
Author researched the ….
Author showed … .
Author studied ….

Author suggested that ....
Author summarized that ....
Author presented ....
Author extended this work to ….
Author presented a comprehensive review of ….
Author performed experimental investigations on …
Author performed numerical analysis of …
Author analyzed ….
Author studied the … Their analysis revealed that ….
Author reviewed the available literature on …

Research topic as subject
…, such as the works of Author et al. were carried out by Author. was done by Author were investigated by Author. was attemted by Author
… is analyzed by Author

Others
For example, Author found that….
Recently, Author gave a comprehensive review on ….
In a different study, Author examined….
In another study, Author examined ....
Another studies by Author....
According to Author….
According to an investigation by Author, ….
The study by Author examined the ….
A study by Author suggests there should be ...
As highlighted by Author, ….
According to Author, ....

Study by Author found that ….
…. model was used by Author to do research on ….
…. model was used by Author to predict ….
The study of Author was the ….
With the same objective, Author conducted numerical experiments on …..
More recently, Author investigated ….
Early studies by Author ….

Highlighting contradict findings
However, a number of studies show that significant differences do exist, albeit findings are somewhat contradictory.
Author found differences suggesting that….
In contrast, Author concluded that ....
In contrast, the study by Author indicated that ....
The above findings contradict the study by Author. Author examined…
However, interestingly, this is contrary to a study conducted by Author.
Despite prior evidence [2],….
These results were contradicted by the experiments of Author who considered ….
However, it was later shown by Author that ….

Highlighting similar findings
The research study by Author also found ....
Author also found that ....
Furthermore, Author concluded that ....
Furthermore, Author showed that ....
In addition, according to Author …
In addition, Author showed that …
The finding is consistent with findings of past studies by Author, which ....
The above finding is consistent with the study by Author. Author examined…
Research finding by Author also points towards..
…is consistent with literature [4].

Similarly, Author found …
Author added that the …..
This is supported by Author study which reveal that …..
Author also provided ...
.... and found similar results to those obtained by Author.
In addition to work of Author A, Author B provides …
..... by Author also showed similar results.
This is consistent with the …. of Author, which showed that ....

Highlighting a knowledge gap in the field of study
However, to the best of authors knowledge, no report has been found so far using ....
As far we know, the problem has not been considered before.
Although X have been widely used on the X, there has been limited use on ....
Literature reviews have indicated that there were no ....
So far, however, there has been little discussion about ....
However, far too little attention has been paid to .....
Most studies in X have only been carried out in a small number of areas.
The research to date has tended to focus on X rather than Y.
In addition, no research has been found that surveyed ....
So far this method has only been applied to ....
However, there have been no controlled studies which compare differences in ....
The experimental data are rather controversial, and there is no general agreement about ....
However, there is no reliable evidence that ....
As shown above, most studies examined ....
On the other hand, no study has examined....
Yet, very few studies have examined…
There are a quite few research studies on X. However, studies on X are rare to find in literature. Unfortunately few studies have been carried out on….
Studies relating to X have been relatively scanty (few) and that there is no study focusing on…. There is also a little research about X. Realizing the gap in the extant literature, more research is needed for …….To our knowledge, no research has been carried out on …….. To address these gaps….
It appears from the aforementioned investigations that numeruos investigation have been conducted the effects of … However, no attempt was made to investigate …
Although there were many researches about …, few of them focused on …. So it is necessary to do deep research on .…
However, there is no study present .…
There are only a few studies in literature that deal with ….
It appears from the aforementioned investigations that most attention has been paid to ….
Furthermore, it can be seen from the limited works on …..
No attempt was done to explore the potential of ….
Most of the open literatures on the …..were focused mainly on the …..In addition to these primary data, systematic studies on the ….are still needed for better understanding of …
A careful study of the literature reveals that the …..has not been thoroughly investigated. A clear understanding of ….is very essential for …
It may however be noted that nost od the studies were aimed at …. and a rigorous study for
….has not been attempted to.
On …..one unresolved question is why ….
Nevertheless, few studies are to be found providing detailed ….
Most previous studies have …., however, it is essential to provide ….
However, …. are still lacking.
There have been relatively few recent studies on …..
It should be noted from the above literature review, however, that limited studies are available on…… and this has motivated the present study.
It should be noted, however, that all the previous studies of ….that are reported in the open literature …… To the best of author knowledge, the case of …. has not been given great attention by the researchers in the past and this motivated the present study.
Although the above invetsigation examined the ….., to the best of author knowledge, only few reference in the literature systematically describe the effect of. …. This was the motivation behind the present study.
In general, as observed from prior studies, it is difficult to obtain performance enhancement
…. Therefore, another motivation for this study is to …

In summary, many interesting results indicating the potential of …. have been reported.
However most of the studies in the open literature did not simultaneusly examine the effect of …
To the author best knowledge, previous studies on … only focussed on …..
Although these investigations reported many interesting results, litle work has examined ….
In particular, the effect of ….remains unexplored.
A survey of literature on …. is scarcely reported.

Focus, Aim, Objective:
The objective of the present work paper is to investigate ...
In this work we propose a simulation which uses ...
The objective of this study is to develop ...
This paper will focus on/examine/give an account of ....
The objectives of this paper are to determine whether ....
This paper seeks to address the following questions:
This paper critically examines/discusses/traces ....
The aim of this paper is to determine/examine ....
The aim of this study was to evaluate and validate ....
The present study examined numerically the ....
This study was spawned from the lack of research of ....
The objective of this paper is to numerically study ....
Therefore, this study aims to experimentally investigate the ....
Therefore, the present study carried out the ....
The primary goal of this study was to determine the ....
The current study involves an investigation of the effects of ....
Accordingly, the present study attempts to…
The aim of the present work is to investigate the effects of ….The paper also explores …
The current study attempts to cover a wide variety of…….
The goal of this study is develop a more rigorous understanding of …
The present study considers ….
The present study explores the influence of …
The present study focuses on …
The present work is an extension of the work reported earlier by Author with emphases on ..

The purpose of this article is to…..
The purpose of this study is to determine….
The purpose of this study was to ….
Therefore, the intention of the present study is to ….
This paper researched the …..
This study contributes to the extant literature in several ways. First …
This study tested the hypothesis that …
This study was undertaken to …
This paper attempts to provide a more detailed investigations regarding the effects of …
While the objective of the present investigation focus on ….the long term implications of this study will impact....
In this study, …..has been investigated .
The present work compares ....
This paper continues the effort of Author to understand the ….
The purpose of this research was ….
In this paper, ….. is proposed.
Thus, the present study deals with ...
Hence the goal of this paper is to find out if there exist a possibility for improving the heat transfer using …..which was not favored in prior attempts by ….
The main aim of the present study is to investigate …
This work presents …
The present study is motivated by the need to take into consideration the …
The purpose of this paper is to review recent research into the ....
This paper will review the research conducted on ....
This paper reviews the literature concerning the usefulness of using ....


Significant of the study
To accomplish this aim and to respond to a recent call for research to…
The findings of this study will help…..
The contribution of this study is obvious as the resulting outcomes can be capitalized as guidelines to ….
The current study contributes to our knowledge by addressing four important issues. First, ….

The long term implications of this study will impact ...
The uniqueness of this study exists in the fact that …
To demonstrate the potential of this approach and its suitability for the application, ….is investigated. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Discussion of Results
The discussion of the results begin with …
This finding highlights…
The finding of the present study suggest that
The findings suggest that …..
The finding provides evidence that …
This study indicates that …
The results of the present study also suggest that..
The present findings also suggest that …
Our finding revealed that …
Among the plausible explanations for these findings is that ….
The most striking result to emerge from the data is that ......
Interestingly, this correlation is related to .....
The correlation between X and Y is interesting because ......
The more surprising correlation is with the ......
The single most striking observation to emerge from the data comparison was ......

Comparisons of Results with previous findings
The present finding also support Author study which concluded that ....
The finding is consistent with findings of past studies by Author, which….
Consistent with findings by Author, we found that …
The result is in the lines of earlier literature [5] that found…
…..which was consistent with the finding of Author.
This … reflects the findings of Author.
Author found that …., which is in good agreement with the results of the present study.
…from the present study agrees relatively well with that from Author.

Highlighting significant data in a table/chart
It is apparent from this table that very few ......
This table is quite revealing in several ways. First, unlike the other tables ......

Data from this table can be compared with the data in Table 4.6 which shows ......
From the data in Figure 9, it is apparent that ......
From this data we can see that ......
The histogram in Fig 1. indicates that ......
What is interesting in this data is that ......
In Fig.10 there is a clear trend of decreasing ......
As Table III shows, there is a significant difference between the two groups.
The differences between X and Y are highlighted in Table 4.

Discussion data from table/figure
Table A presents …
Figure 1 presents …
In table 2, …
Table 2, however, shows that……(unexpected results).
Table 2 demonstrates that….
Table 2 indicates that …
Table 2 shows that ….
Figure A shows
Figure A and B show
Figure 1 is the …
Table 1 provides ..
Figure A illustrates …
Figure A exhibits …
As illustrated in table 2, …
As shown in table 2, …
It appears from table 1 that, …
As table 1 indicates, …
In the Figure A,…
From the Figure A,…
… plotted in Figure 1 clearly show ..
….are illustrated in Figure 1.

…… are shown in table 2.
…… are presented in Table 2.
The …..are presented in figure 1. As shown in the figure …
….. depicted in figure 1.
, Figure A.
….is shown in Table 1.
… is shown in Figure A.
… are showed in Table 1.
; see figure A.
, visible in Figure A.
…. Is given in Table 1.

CONCLUSSION

Restatement of aims
This study set out to determine ....
The present study was designed to determine the effect of ....
In this investigation, the aim was to assess ....
The purpose of the current study was to determine ....
This project was undertaken to design .... and evaluate ....
… are investigated
This paper presented results of …

Summarising the findings
This study has shown that ....
These findings suggest that in general ....
One of the more significant findings to emerge from this study is that ....
It was also shown that....
This study has found that generally ....
The following conclusions can be drawn from the present study ....
The relevance of X is clearly supported by the current findings.
This study/research has shown that ....
The second major finding was that ....
The results of this investigation show that ....
The most obvious finding to emerge from this study is that ....
The following points emerged from the present investigation: 1….. 2….
…,
The main finding can be summarized as follow: 1..2..
The following conclussions can be made: 1..2…
Important conclussions drawn from this work include: 1…2…
The following conclussions were obtained. 1)….2)..
Analysis of the computed results show the following: 1)…..2)…
In summary, the current study unveils just the tip of iceberg of ….
The following is a summary of conclusions. 1…2)…

Some important observations are noted and summarized below.
....

Significance of the findings
The evidence from this study suggests that ....
The results of this study indicate that ....
The findings of this study suggest that ....
The X that we have identified therefore assists in our understanding of the role of ....
These findings enhance our understanding of ....
This research will serve as a base for future studies and ....
The current findings add substantially to our understanding of ....
The current findings add to a growing body of literature on ....
The study has gone some way towards enhancing our understanding of ....
The present study, however, makes several noteworthy contributions to ....
The findings from this study make several contributions to the current literature. First,…

Recommendations for further work
This research has thrown up many questions in need of further investigation. Further work needs to be done to establish whether ....
It is recommended that further research be undertaken in the following areas: Further experimental investigations are needed to estimate ....
What is now needed is a study involving ....
More broadly, research is also needed to determine ....
Further research might explore/investigate ....
Further research in this field/regarding the role of X would be of great help in ....
Further investigation and experimentation into X is strongly recommended. A number of possible future studies using the same experimental set up are apparent. It would be interesting to assess the effects of ....
More information on X would help us to establish a greater degree of accuracy on this matter.
If the debate is to be moved forward, a better understanding of .... needs to be developed. These findings provide the following insights for future research: ....

Considerably more work will need to be done to determine ....
More research is needed to better understand when implementation ends and ....
A further study could assess ….
A future study investigating X would be very interesting.
Future research should therefore concentrate on the investigation of ….
More research is required on ....