Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power

Dr. T. Prabu is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, India. He has rich experience with academia, industry and research. He has industry experience with top notch firms like Satyam Venture Engineering Services and Emerson Innovation Centre. He has been an active participant in conferences related to Purdue Compressor and published research articles in reputed journals and conferences. Currently, he is involved in establishing state-of-the-art wind tunnel facility and is pursuing research for government organizations. He is Secretary of ISSE Coimbatore chapter and a member of ISHRAE & The Institution of Engineers (India). He is actively collaborating under different research initiatives of Centre for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research (CATER) at the University of Central Florida.Dr. P. Viswanathan is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at PSG College of Technology, India. He has over 15 years of teaching experience. He served for over 10 years in machine building and manufacturing sector and executed several projects in the paper, cement and textiles industry. His current interests are in wind energy systems and energy efficient HVACR systems. Dr. Viswanathan is actively involved in establishing a wind tunnel facility for the research and study of systems related to aerodynamics. His research has been published in several journals of national and international repute. He is the coordinator for Aeronautical Association, ISHRAE Chapter and CWC of ISHRAE Coimbatore Chapter. Currently, he is working on the development of small wind turbines for the local environment.Dr. Amit Agrawal is currently Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India. His research interests include micro-scale flows, development of novel bio-microdevices, theoretical fluid mechanics and turbulent flows. He has published closeto 200 journal articles and filed for a dozen patents with his students. His primary contributions are in the development of a unique blood plasma separation microdevice and derivation of equations which are more general than the Navier–Stokes equations. He has been elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and the National Academy of Sciences India (NASI). He has been awarded the Department of Atomic Energy DAE-SRC Outstanding Investigator Award, Prof. K. N. Seetharamu Medal by Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer, Prof. H. H. Mathur Award for Excellence in Applied Sciences by IIT Bombay and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for his work.Dr. Jyotirmay Banerjee is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at S V National Institute of Technology Surat, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in 2005. He has guided eight Ph.D. students, and seven more students are presently working under his supervision for their doctoral degree. He has guided more than 50 M.Tech. dissertations. He has more than 60 journal publications of international repute. He has been actively involved in research in the area of two-phase flow through macro and mini-scale channels. His research group has established a state-of-the-art two-phase flow test rig established with an earlier SERB sanctioned project.

• Transient Thermal Stratification in Sodium Pool of a Fast Reactor.- Mean Flow Propoerties of a Three dimensional Wall jet Developing on cancave cylindrical surfaces.- Effect of Reynolds Number on Thrust generation by an elastic plate undergoing active pitching and large scale flow induced deformation.- Analysis of entrance region flow of Bingham nanofluid in a concentric annuli with rotating outer cylinder.- Rheodynamic Lubrication of an Externally Pressurized Converging Circular Thrust Bearing using Viscoplastic Fluids.- Experimental investigation of flow over a backward facing step with inclinations.