Dr. Virendra Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MMUT, Gorakhpur, India. He has a Ph.D. in Thermal Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India and has over eight years of experience in teaching and research. He is an author of over 50 research articles and four books. E-mail address: virendar.k@hbtu.ac.inDr. Nishant Kumar Singh is an Associate Professor at Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur, India. He holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology ( Dhanbad), India. Dr. Singh has published over 110 research articles in well-known international journals. He has also written five books with international publishers like CRC Press and Nova Publishers. His research interests include tribology, composites, micro-manufacturing, and non-conventional machining processes. Email: nsingh@hbtu.ac.inDr. Dan Bahadur Pal is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur, India. He completed his Ph.D. in 2017 in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published 82 papers in internationally refereed journals, six books, and thirty book chapters. Email: dbpal@hbtu.ac.inDr. Surendra Kumar Yadav is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at K R Mangalam University in Gurugram, India. He earned his Master’s (M.Tech) and doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees from the National Institute of Technology in Silchar, India. He has published more than 21 articles in reputed international peer-reviewed journals. Email: https://www.krmangalam.edu.in/

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